2005-2014

NEW YORK: The International Herald Tribune is in the process of eliminating 36 positions in its Paris offices in a number of departments including production, IT, and circulation. The editorial department will not be affected. In a written statement obtained by E&P, executives at the IHT have approached the company's "Work Council" with a reorganization plan in compliance with French laws. "We are...

New York, March 3, 2006—The Committee to Protect Journalists is deeply troubled by sedition charges pending against Salah Uddin Shoaib Choudhury, editor of the tabloid weekly Blitz. Choudhury, who spent 17 months in jail before his release on bail in May 2005, is due to be tried in a Dhaka court next week. Choudhury told CPJ he believes the prosecution is related to his journalistic work...

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - Microsoft Corp said Friday it had asked U.S. Federal courts to force IBM, Sun Microsystems Inc, Oracle Corp and Novell Inc to give it documents in its battle against the European Commission. Microsoft is fighting a fine of up to 2 million ($2.4 million) a day for failing to carry out sanctions that the Commission, the European Union's executive arm, imposed on it in 2004 for...

Civil society, Members of Parliament and human rights lobbyists have condemned the brutal destruction of Standard Group property by the Government. They described the closure of KTN television station and burning of newspapers as a cowardly act by a desperate government and urged the media house to work round the clock and resume services even more boldly. "That sounds like old Romania or some...

There is a genuine shock and amazement in Kenya that hooded armed police were used to raid media houses. For the past three years, the government has been applauded for opening up "democratic space", and allowing a fair degree of press freedom. The fact that the only response to come from government so far has been the colourful retort of Internal Security Minister John Michuki that "if you rattle...

NAIROBI - Fallout from a police raid on a major media group put Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki’s weakened government further on the defensive on Friday, with newspapers denouncing the action as "state thuggery". Yesterday’s heavy-handed raid sparked a storm of domestic and foreign condemnation and split Kibaki’s cabinet, heaping more pressure on his administration. The operation was particularly...

Let me kick off by condemning and denouncing in the strongest terms, the stupid, fascist vandalism perpetrated by masked and hooded State terrorists who smashed their way into the Standard Group premises – their downtown offices at the I&M building and their Industrial Area printing facilities on Likoni Road – yanking off power cables, pistol-whipping shocked reporters and workers, threatening to...

The UN High Commissioner for Human Rights has said Mumbai journalist Violet Godwin “might have been killed” due to negligent investigation on the part of the Mumbai police. In a letter to the Centre, which in turn has forwarded to the state government, the international body came down heavily on the Mumbai police. Now the victim’s brother, dissatisfied with the nature of investigation by the...

New technologies and a booming economy will help double revenues in India's television industry by 2010, but regulatory barriers could impact growth in the world's third-largest cable TV market, Reuters has reported quoting a new study. The Hong Kong-based Media Partners Asia (MPA) has estimated in a just-released study that India is set to become Asia's leading cable market by 2010, the largest...

Kenyans on Thursday awoke to the shocking news of a Government attack on the Standard Group, in which KTN was put off air, the printing plant disabled and tens of thousands of newspapers burnt. And the country united in roundly condemning the raid on the media group, which was described as a blatant assault on Press freedom. Media colleagues, politicians - including some members of Government -...