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Confusion and murk yesterday continued to surround the affair of Judith Miller, the New York Times reporter who emerged from her prison cell on Friday to testify in a two-year-old investigation into the alleged leaking by the White House of the name of an undercover CIA operative to her and other journalists. The sudden surrender of Ms Miller to the district attorney investigating the case...

THE Judith Miller case offers invaluable lessons for journalism students and media professionals everywhere. The New York Times reporter chose to serve a prison sentence rather than compromise on the fundamental principles of media freedom especially a journalist’s right to protect the confidentiality of its sources. In doing so, the celebrated reporter of the Times upheld the highest principles...

On the eve of the 56th anniversary of the People’s Republic of China, Reporters sans Frontières (RSF) has released a report of an investigation into the role of the news agency Xinhua News Agency in the system of propaganda and censorship put in place by the Chinese Communist Party (CCP). With less than three years to go before the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games, the worldwide press freedom...

Guwahati: The entire media of Arunachal Pradesh, both print and electronic, has decided to observe ceasework from today following threats from All Arunachal Pradesh Student Union (AAPSU). The Arunachal media, in an emergent meeting held at Itanagar today, said ''all the media would ceasework indefinitely till the culprits were brought to book''. The AAPSU has been hit by an internal squabble and...

NEW YORK (AP) - New York Times reporter Judith Miller’s decision to escape jail by testifying about her conversations with a confidential source surprised some of her supporters and left journalists wondering what her choice will mean for press freedoms. Miller spent 85 days in jail for initially refusing to tell a grand jury whom she spoke with about Valerie Plame, a covert CIA official whose...

There cannot be a country in the world in which the words al-Jazeera do not provoke some sort of reaction. Now the Qatar-headquartered broadcaster is putting together a new worldwide English language TV station and all eyes are on Doha. Governments are apparently trying to place spies in its ranks, competing networks are badmouthing its output before a single hour is aired and senior journalists...

WASHINGTON, Sept. 30 - Federal auditors said on Friday that the Bush administration violated the law by buying favorable news coverage of President Bush's education policies, by making payments to the conservative commentator Armstrong Williams and by hiring a public relations company to analyze media perceptions of the Republican Party. In a blistering report, the investigators, from the...

Online advertising revenues are expected to grow by as much as 25 per cent this year. Online ad revenue will be to the tune of Rs 150 crore this year � up from Rs 120 crore in 2004. The figure might even touch an estimated Rs 350 crore in 2009, more than 100 per cent over the 2005 estimate. Consumer advertisers continue to represent the largest category of advertisers (at Rs 82 crore), accounting...

Call it the mobile video generation. Television is coming to U.S. cell phones, and when it does, the programs are sure to be short, flashy and laser-targeted at young adults. MTV is very excited about the prospects. ``MTV's all about short-form video,'' said Greg Clayman, vice president of wireless strategy at MTV Networks. TV on mobile phones is at least two years from reaching a mass U.S...

After Judith Miller finally decided to testify before a Grand Jury investigating the Plame scandal, her paper narrated the story in a report that can easily induce a coma. The agreement that led to Miller's release followed intense negotiations among her; her lawyer, Robert Bennett; Libby's lawyer, Joseph Tate; and Fitzgerald. The talks began with a telephone call from Bennett to Tate in late...