2005-2014

Masked policemen shut down Kenya's second largest media group early Thursday in Nairobi, two days after three Kenyan journalists were detained without charge for a story about the country's president, the Associated Press (AP) has reported. BURNT: A Kenyan reads a burnt copy of the Standard newspaper at the printing press in the Kenyan capital Nairobi, March 2. Masked gunmen raided Kenya's second

The Associated Press and Microsoft Corp on Wednesday launched a new service which allows the news cooperative's member websites to offer free video news clips and share in advertising revenue generated from the service. The breaking news video service, powered by MSN Video and leveraging AP content, is tailored for websites and provides high-quality, in-depth reports from the world's largest...

The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has accused Chinese authorities of a "brutal vendetta" against independent journalism and media following the destruction of the offices of one of its leading critics. ASSAULTED: A picture of Chinese newspaper Epoch Times Chief Technical Officer Li Yuan, who demonstrators say was attacked in his home at Atlanta, US, , is shown during a...

Pressure is mounting on Egypt President Hosni Mubarak to implement the promise he made two years ago to initiate legislations to decriminalise press offences. ON A PROMISORY NOTE: Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, right, shakes hand with Israeli Labour Party leader Amir Peretz during their meeting in Cairo February 22. The same day, freedom of expression organisations at the general meeting of the

One year after Elmar Huseynov, the founder and editor of the opposition weekly Monitor, was killed at the entrance of his apartment building in Azerbaijan capital Baku, there has been no headway in the investigation. SILENCED: Elmar Huseynov, founder and editor of independent weekly Monitor, attending the 1st OSCE South Caucasus Media Conference, October 2004. Huseynov, 38, was gunned down on

Readers of the Rocky Mountain News used to get 7 1/2 pages of stock tables in their daily newspaper, but now they have to go online for nearly all the financial listings. Only one page of statistics remains in the print edition -- a mere nod to what was once a fundamental service that all papers brought their readers. "Frankly, it's had almost no measurable impact on our circulation," said John...

The chief executive of Reuters today said that traditional media had to rise to the challenge of the internet or face being overcome by change. Speaking at the Online Publishers Association conference in London this morning, Tom Glocer said that media organisations needed to understand their true value in order to make the most of the online world. "I believe the world will always need editing,"...

NEW YORK – The Village Voice suspended one of its editors after he admitted fabricating material for this week's cover story, a look at "The Secret Society of Pickup Artists." The weekly alternative newspaper published an editor's note on its Web site Wednesday night announcing the suspension of senior associate editor Nick Sylvester. In an article about the effect that Neil Strauss's book, "The...

In a letter circulated to journalists in mid-February, a group of former senior Chinese officials called on the Beijing government to ease its rigid media censorship, particularly of political news and commentary. The appeal is another sign of a broader debate in Chinese ruling circles on how to deal with the extreme tensions being generated by the country’s deepening social inequality. Written on...

Search giant Google is storing the search records for its recently launched Chinese site Google.cn outside the country in an effort to keep the Chinese government from demanding the files. "We didn’t want to be in the position of having to hand over these kinds of records to the government," said Peter Norvig, Google’s director of research, at a panel discussion at Santa Clara University in...