2005-2014

Panos London, Internews Network and the International Centre for Journalists (ICFJ) have launched a one year pilot phase of the Health Journalism Partnership, to build better health journalism in countries with the most acute public health crises. In the past decade, global funding to address critical health issues such as malaria, tuberculosis, HIV/AIDS and childhood diseases has grown...

A Turkish appeals court on Friday last overturned a lower court's decision to convict Armenian-Turkish journalist Hrant Dink for insulting the country's national identity in a series of articles, and ordered a new trial, the Associated Press (AP) had reported. VINDICATED ON APPEAL: Hrant Dink, a Turkish citizen and editor of the bilingual Armenian-Turkish newspaper Agos, was convicted and given a

The Philippines police raided the premises of a newspaper critical of President Gloria Arroyo Saturday following her declaration of a state of emergency to quash a coup plot, the Associated Press (AP) has reported. Arroyo set off an uproar with her decree Friday as Filipinos celebrated the 20th anniversary of dictator Ferdinand Marcos' ouster in a "people power" revolt, and even some supporters

HERE’S a quiz. Which UK newspaper printed a headline last week about John Prescott, the deputy prime minister, using yellow type on a lurid green background? Which newspaper asked on its front page: Is Oprah really a Zulu? And which had Catwalk Cattiness billed as its most enticing item? Anyone nominating the Sun, the Daily Mirror, or the Daily Star should remain in class and pay attention. The...

RIYADH, 26 February 2006 – As a result of relaxing censorship rules in the Kingdom, a growing number of Saudi writers are emerging on the Kingdom’s literary scene. This seems to be the consensus of attendees of Riyadh’s International Book Fair, which runs through Thursday. Abdullah Almojel, deputy minister for cultural relations at the Ministry of Higher Education, told Arab News that over 70...

KUALA LUMPUR, Feb 25 (Bernama) -- The Internal Security Ministry on Saturday suspended for two weeks effective tomorrow the publishing permit of Berita Petang Sarawak newspaper for publishing a seditious article in Chinese which also carried the offensive caricatures of Prophet Muhammad. Prime Minister Datuk Seri Abdullah Ahmad Badawi, who is also Internal Security Minister, decided to suspend the...

LI DATONG, the sacked editor of one of China's most influential investigative newspapers, laughed as he explained why the closure and pending reopening of the weekly Bingdian ( Freezing Point) added up to an incredible victory, despite his dismissal. While the fight was not over yet, he sensed a watershed. "This is a rare occurrence," he said. "It (the reopening of an axed newspaper) has never...

The last time The Inquirer and Philadelphia Daily News changed owners, in 1970, circulation was down, competition was up, and the papers' fate was in the hand of a distant corporation. Seems like old times. Philadelphia Newspapers Inc., which publishes what are now the city's two major dailies, has the largest circulation and the biggest advertising sales among the 29 markets served by the Knight...

LONDON – Outspoken London Mayor Ken Livingstone may not be reporting for work Wednesday at the city's egg-shaped town hall on the banks of the River Thames. Unless he appeals successfully, he will sit at home, serving a four-week suspension for comparing a Jewish journalist to a Nazi concentration camp guard. The mayor – a veteran of many foot-in-mouth controversies – had argued he was exercising...

How worried should the print media be about the onslaught of the digital age? Gloomy? Excited? Bullish? A trio of heavyweight print executives, assembled to address the Judge Business School Media and Business conference in Cambridge at the end of last week, had starkly different opinions. Most alarmist and gloomy was Andrew Gowers, until recently editor-in-chief of the Financial Times, who...