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Coimbatore, Sept 24: A reporter of a leading Tamil daily, who had gone to cover the farmers' grievances day, was allegedly assaulted by revenue officials at the meeting hall at nearby Tirupur yesterday. A senior revenue official started abusing the reporter, Manikandan, representing 'Dinamani', as soon as he entered the meeting hall. As the journalist was explaining, some officials started...

Irked by the partial classification of newspapers, a group of publishers, editors and journalists on Friday, forced the Chairman of Press Council Nepal (PCN) Mathvar Singh Basnet off his chair and locked his office protesting against PCN's "unfair and biased" classification of newspapers, reports on Saturday said. Journalists from Kathmandu, Lalitpur and Bhaktapur, who had reached the PCN office...

KATHMNANDU, Sept. 23: About 2,881 newspapers and journals have been registered in the country during the fiscal year 061-062. Out of this, only 557 newspapers are published. And only 322 of them are said to be regular, it is stated in the 30th annual report of the Nepal Press Council. The Council has been issuing the annual report every year. Among the newspapers, those in ‘A’ category are...

UNESCO invites Member States and regional and international organizations professional and non-governmental organizations working in the field of journalism and freedom of expression to nominate candidates for the UNESCO/Guillermo Cano World Press Freedom Prize. As stipulated in the Regulations, the UNESCO/Guillermo Cano World Press Freedom Prize is intended "to honour – a person, organization or...

The New York Times Web site began charging for some of its content this week, and so those students who wake up too late for the paper copy may miss out on articles they want to read. The new system, called TimesSelect, will limit access to op-ed columnists and other online content to customers who subscribe to the paper edition and who pay the online fee. Tufts students, who receive free paper...

The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ), the global organisation representing more than 500,000 journalists in over 110 countries, has welcomed the release of journalist Harihar Singh Rathour, but is deeply concerned for the safety of journalists in the Dailekh district. On September 21, journalist Harihar Singh Rathour was released from police custody in Dailekh District after being...

THE NEW YORK TIMES CO. ran more online display ads last month than any other advertiser in the consumer goods category, according to recent data from Nielsen//NetRatings' AdRelevance. Online ads for consumer goods accounted for 5 percent of all online display ads last month; the total estimated ad spend for consumer goods display ads was $28.7 million. The Times Co. was responsible for 9.2 percent...

SHANGHAI, CHINA – As China began to go online, observers made brash predictions that the Internet would pry the country open. Cyberspace, the thinking went, would prove too vast and wild for Beijing to keep under its thumb. Now these early assumptions are being sharply revised. Under an authoritarian government determined to control information, China has grown a new version of the Internet. As...

The proverbial 800lb gorilla, it was noted on the sidelines of last week’s Royal Television Society Convention in Cambridge, has recently bulked up. When discussing companies such as Google, a 1,500lb beast in the corner of the room is nowadays invoked. Was this, one television pundit asked, a case of "gorilla inflation"? Another industry is now asking whether the internet search and advertising...

Reporters Without Borders today published a Handbook for Bloggers and Cyber-Dissidents (in English, French, Chinese, Arabic and Persian), in which experts and bloggers from all over the world advise Internet users, especially those in repressive countries, how to set up their own blogs and get them known, while preserving their personal anonymity. Create your own blog, remain anonymous and get...