Eighty-two journalists fled their native countries under threat or harassment in the last 12 months, with more than half coming from conflict-ridden Iraq and Somalia. The rate of journalists going into exile—about seven per month—is double the average that the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has recorded since it began compiling such data in 2001. In the majority of cases, journalists
Three years on, the Danish cartoon wars just won't rub out. Governments are stoking the crisis by instigating protests against the cartoonists or the newspapers that dared to report on the controversy, the World Association of Newspapers (WAN) and other IFEX members have found. Cartoonists and journalists from the Arab world, Europe and the US say that the Danish cartoon crisis is being
Zimbabwe is going through serious political violence perpetrated by the party in power, ZANU PF. This violence is also taking place in a context of major economic challenges that the country faces where inflation is estimated to be greater than 1 million percent. There have also been food shortages, which are further exacerbated through the banning of humanitarian food distribution by NGOs by the
Among people who research products and services after seeing them advertised in newspapers, two-thirds (67 per cent) use the Internet to find more information. Of that group, nearly 70 per cent of consumers actually make a purchase following their additional research. A study commissioned by Google, conducted by Clark, Martire & Bartolomeo shows that consumers trust ads appearing in newspapers
Young adults experience news fatigue from being inundated by facts and updates and have trouble accessing in-depth stories. The Context-Based Research Group, an ethnographic research firm, has found that the news consumption behaviour of younger readers differs profoundly from that of previous generations. The research project, commissioned by the Associated Press in 2007, analysed the news
Mexico is not at war. It is a democracy. And yet it is one of the world's most dangerous countries for the press. Twenty-one journalists have been killed in Mexico since 2000, seven of them in direct reprisal for their work. Since 2005, seven others have gone missing. Mexico ranks 10th on CPJ's impunity index, along with such war-ravaged countries as Iraq, Somalia, and Sierra Leone. The impact of
Three years after the murder of Franco-Lebanese journalist Samir Kassir in Beirut, French and Lebanese judicial authorities continue to be slow and callous in their response in this case in which no suspect has been detained or charged. Kassir’s widow, Giselle Khoury, has almost given up as she says, "Resolution seems to me to be very far away, too far. The many political changes, not only in
A year after the gruesome muder of Zakia Zaki, the director Sada-e-Solh (Peace Radio), her killers remain unpunished. Her husband says there has been no progress in the official investigation, probably because of pressure from those who ordered her murder. Zaki was shot in her home in Jabalussaraj, in the northern Afghanistan province of Parwan, in the early hours of June 6, 2007. “Today we pay
In the long-standing battle for journalistic freedom, the victor is the Bush Administration and its embedded media program in Iraq. Journalists embedded with American troops emphasised military successes more often than they covered the invasion’s consequences for Iraqi citizens. These findings are from a study by sociologist Andrew M Lindner, writing in the spring issue of the American
Global press freedom underwent a clear decline in 2007, with journalists struggling to work in increasingly hostile environments in almost every region in the world, according to a new survey released by Freedom House. The decline in press freedom—which occurred in authoritarian countries and established democracies alike—continues a six-year negative trend. Freedom House formally presented
