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Reporters sans Frontières (RSF) has released a list of 15 countries that are "enemies of the Internet" and pointed to a dozen others whose attitude to it is worrying. The 15 "enemies" are the countries that crack down hardest on the Internet, censoring independent news sites and opposition publications, monitoring the Web to stifle dissident voices, and harassing, intimidating and sometimes...

As reporters keep scrambling to find out who told Bob Woodward about Joe Wilson’s wife, Woodward himself has told TIME about a related mystery: what made the source finally come forward. When the Washington Post reporter went public with his involvement in the CIA leak case earlier this week, he failed to explain why his source waited silently for two years before coming clean to special...

NEW YORK (MarketWatch) - Bob Woodward's startling true confession will have a far-reaching impact on more than the trial of Lewis Libby, the top aide to Vice President Dick Cheney who has been indicted for perjury in connection with the CIA leak case. I suspect that the Woodward affair will change a time-honored tradition in my profession. Now, journalists/would-be authors are likely to receive...

Latha Gauri is a community reporter. On November 17, she took to the podium at the World Summit on the Information Society in Tunis – the sole representative of a mammoth global grassroots caucus selected to speak at the plenary session. Gauri works for Sneha, a voluntary organisation which networks over 500 villages close to the southern Indian city of Hyderabad – nicknamed Cyberabad for its...

Tunisia has refused entry to the chief of press freedom group Reporters sans Frontières (RSF) on Thursday when he arrived for a UN summit at which journalists have been harassed, the Paris-based organisation said. Robert Ménard © Indymedia "I wasn't even able to get off the plane," RSF Secretary-General Robert Ménard said. "Just after the plane stopped, I was told to remain seated and to wait...

The Tunisian government's continuing clampdown on human rights defenders and its intolerance of domestic critics has made a mockery of the UN-sponsored international summit being held in Tunis this week, Amnesty International has said. SOLIDARITY: Iranian Nobel Peace Prize winner Shirin Ebadi (left) talks to Tunisian human rights activists who have been on a hunger strike since October 18 to...

KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 17 (Bernama) -- Many news agencies of countries in the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) have failed to function effectively in disseminating news and information, let alone compete with international news agencies, a journalism professor said Thursday. Prof. Dr Mohd Safar Hasim, who chairs Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia's Centre of Media and Communication Studies, cited the economic...

NEW YORK -- The newspaper business is getting smaller. On Wednesday, five newspapers owned by Tribune Co. announced job cuts, but they're hardly alone. In recent weeks, no fewer than nine other well-known newspapers all announced cuts in payrolls or other expenses. What's happening? Here are some questions and answers about the challenges facing the U.S. newspaper business. Q. I keep hearing about...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A federal judge found Washington Post reporter Walter Pincus in civil contempt on Wednesday for refusing to disclose names of sources in the case of Wen Ho Lee, the former Los Alamos nuclear scientist once suspected of espionage. Ruling in the latest defeat for reporters in the courts, U.S. District Judge Rosemary Collyer imposed a fine of $500 a day until Pincus complies...

WASHINGTON (AP) -- Bob Woodward's name is synonymous with anonymous sources, ''Deep Throat'' and reporting that uncovered a scandal that brought down a presidency. Some three decades after Watergate, the outing of Woodward in the CIA leak investigation underscores the change in anonymous sourcing and revives the criticism of the media's use of unnamed officials to curry favor. Woodward's career...