2005-2014

BEIJING – At 5 p.m. on Jan. 24, Li Datong's status went into a deep chill. Mr. Li, a Tiananmen protest veteran and a rare crusading editor still allowed to work, learned that "Freezing Point," his weekly magazine, had been closed. The proximate reason: a lengthy article smashing official history of the 1900 Boxer Rebellion, when a peasant cult killed more than 230 foreigners in a spasm of...

LONDON - The Specator and the Literary Review are among four consumer publications trying out a new digital service, which allows readers to flick through magazines online as as if they were printed editions. The Spectator and the Literary Review, along with The Scientist and the London Review of Books, are the first four magazines available on the new platform, which was created by Exact Editions...

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Syria on Friday disputed U.S. charges it had incited mob violence over cartoons of the Prophet Mohammad, saying Damascus had done its best to protect embassies during violent protests and would pay for damages. Dozens of Syrian police and security officers had been injured protecting foreign embassies during February 4 demonstrations in Damascus that started out...

The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has expressed concern at the growing trend of violent attacks by rightwing outfits against journalists in Maharashtra. "Disagreement with views cannot be the reason to attack media houses. The media must be allowed to remain independent, and encouraged to resist pressure tactics, from whichever direction they come," said IFJ president Christopher...

THEIR headlines are as captivating as ever: "Jessica & Jude Steamy Hotel Romp!" (the Star); "Hillary Attacks Bill's Secret Lover" (Globe); "Farrah Fawcett: My Drug Hell!" (National Enquirer); and, most thrilling of all, "Giant polar monster attacks cruise ship!" and "10 New Commandments Found!" (Weekly World News). Viewed in a vacuum, American Media, the owner of these publications, has never been...

The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has warned that the escalating violence in Iraq, which has seen a number of journalists killed in recent days, is forcing all media – both local and international – into hiding, with increasing lawlessness and violence not being properly covered. EASY PREYS: Former French hostage in Iraq Florence Aubenas (C) chats with a colleagues from Liberation...

Three journalists of Al-Arabiya television, including a well-known woman correspondent, were kidnapped and killed while covering sectarian violence in Samarra, police and the Arabic-language channel said. The bodies of Atwar Bahjat, 30, and her cameraman and soundman were found early Thursday near the city 60 miles north of Baghdad, local law enforcement officials said. MURDERED: Bodies of Al...

China has finally freed a journalist after 16 years of imprisonment left him mentally impaired after being tortured and held for long periods in solitary confinement. Yu Dongyue, then 23, was jailed for splattering paint on a portrait of Mao Zedong during the 1989 pro-democracy protests in Tiananmen Square. MAO@TIANANMEN: The portrait of Mao Zedong looms over student protestors at Tiananmen Square...

The editor and the chairman of a magazine which published a cartoon of prophet Mohammed were Thursday remanded to judicial custody till March 3 in New Delhi. The editor of Senior India magazine Alok Tomar, who was arrested Wednesday night under IPC sections dealing with hurting religious sentiments and attempt to breach communal harmony, was remanded to 14-day judicial custody by local court. UP

Feb. 23 (Bloomberg) -- The New Straits Times, the flagship newspaper of Malaysia's second-biggest publisher, said the government may take action against it over a Wiley Miller cartoon it published following complaints it insults the prophet Muhammad. ``The matter is in the hands of the authorities,'' New Straits Times (M) Bhd. Group Editor-in-Chief Hishamuddin Aun said in a statement published on...