2005-2014

Two journalists were murdered within the space of 24 hours in Mexico last week. Jaime Arturo Olvera Bravo, a freelance photographer and former correspondent for the daily La Voz de Michoacán, was killed on 9 March in La Piedad in the central state of Michoacán, and Ramiro Téllez Contreras, a local radio reporter and police station switchboard operator, was killed the next day in Nuevo Laredo in

The Washington Post Co plans to cut 80 positions – about 9 per cent of the jobs – from the Washington Post's editorial staff as it grapples with a steady decline in circulation, Reuters has reported. The cuts, which are expected to occur within a year, would come through buyouts and attrition, said Rick Weiss, co-chairman of the Washington Post unit of the Washington-Baltimore Newspaper Guild...

Gunmen killed the director of Iraq's public television channel and his driver Saturday, the second killing this month of a figure who shapes broadcast news coverage of the country's sectarian strife, agencies reported quoting police sources. BEREAVED AND WIDOWED: The wife of Amjad Hameed, a senior Iraqi state television editor, weeps during his funeral in Baghdad March 11, 2006. Gunmen...

Uganda has refused to let a Canadian journalist working for the Economist re-enter the east African country because of concerns about his reporting, Reuters has reported. For months, government media authorities did not renew the press accreditation of 34-year-old Blake Lambert, who had lived in Uganda for three years. PREZ'S UP: Uganda's President Yoweri Museveni (R), with his wife Janet (L)

FIFA has abandoned plans to restrict the use of images from the World Cup finals on media internet sites following a meeting between president Sepp Blatter and Timothy Balding, CEO of the World Association of Newspapers (WAN). TIME TO SMILE: Franz Beckenbauer, left, President of the German organising committee for Word Cup 2006, with FIFA President Joseph 'Sepp' Blatter at a party on the occasion...

An editor has been sentenced to one year in prison on a charge of publishing "false news" in a 2002 report attributed to the BBC, which claimed that Ethiopia was training rebels in neighbouring Eritrea. Abraham Gebrekidan, who edited the now-defunct Amharic-language weekly Politika, was immediately jailed on March 8, several local sources told the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ). THE

More than three months have elapsed since the assassination of Lebanese editor Gebran Tueni by the government is yet to appoint a judge to investigate the murder even as an award has been instituted to honour a newspaper publisher or editor in the Arab world who demonstrates free press values. TUENI'S DAUGHTER: Nayla Tueni, daughter of slain anti-Syrian journalist and legislator Gibran Tueni, in

Yet another journalist has been handed down a prison sentence for defamation. On March 7, a court in Giza near Cairo convicted Amira Malash, a reporter for the independent weekly Al-Fagr, of defaming Judge Attia Mohammad Awad in an article she wrote in July 2005 alleging that he had taken bribes. WATCH OUT: German Chancellor Angela Merkel, right, and Egypt President Hosni Mubarak brief the media

Foreign Minister Per Stig Moeller today received a petition with 60,000 signatures calling for reconciliation between Denmark and the Muslim world following the crisis over the Prophet Mohammed cartoons. Organisers of the campaign "Forsoning Nu," or "Reconciliation Now," urged all parties, particularly the governments of Denmark and other countries involved in the dispute, "to work together to...

Brussels: Luv Puri, the Jammu-based journalist for The Hindu, has been awarded the European Union’s Natali Prize for articles on human rights and democracy. Puri, 26, won the third prize for his article published in The Hindu, "In an alien land". The story was a poignant account of two Pakistani boys who had crossed the India-Pakistan border and had landed in the Kot Bhalwal Jail with a group of...