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The International Federation of Journalists, the global organisation representing more than 500,000 journalists in over 110 countries, today welcomed the announcement of a unilateral three month cease-fire by the Maoist insurgency in Nepal. "This is a very positive sign that Nepal can reach a peaceful resolution to a situation that has seen journalists aggressively targeted and attacked by both...

NEW YORK (AP): What do you call people who have been driven from their homes with only the clothes on their backs, unsure if they will ever be able to return, and forced to build a new life in a strange place? News organizations are struggling for the right word. Many, including The Associated Press, have used "refugee" to describe those displaced by the wrath of Hurricane Katrina. But the choice...

As President Bush scurries back to the Gulf Coast, it is clear that this is the greatest challenge to politics-as-usual in America since the fall of Richard Nixon in the 1970s. Then as now, good reporting lies at the heart of what is changing. But unlike Watergate, "Katrinagate" was public service journalism ruthlessly exposing the truth on a live and continuous basis. Instead of secretive "Deep...

THE brute force of a hurricane sparks a reflexive response: fight or flight, cherished pictures or heirloom china, beer or water? And news anchors, too, rely on well-worn instincts: go toward the disaster, set up shop and then stand out in the wind-driven rain to let the storm wreak havoc on their generally well-attended hair. Conditions, they will mostly tell you, are "worsening." But that news...

Journalism seems to have recovered its reason for being. As in the weeks after 9/11, news organizations have plunged into the calamity in New Orleans, with reporters chronicling heartbreaking stories under harrowing conditions in a submerged city. Suddenly, there were no more absurdly hyped melodramas like those of Natalee Holloway or Terri Schiavo, just the all-too-real drama of death and...

The Sanskriti Pratishthan is inviting applications for its annual Prabha Dutt Fellowship in Journalism from young women who wish to investigate and research on any topic of contemporary relevance. The Prabha Dutt Foundation initially administered the Fellowship. The scheme will now be managed by the Sanskriti Pratishthan, which has been giving similar awards for cultural, media and social activism...

Much like Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattercharya and his Marxist government’s attitude towards industrialisation and foreign capital that has been so much in the news of late, the well established Bengali magazines from the ABP stable have also evolved with the times. ‘Desh’, till sometime back a weekly and subsequently a fortnightly, is no longer an anachronistic and essentially literary magazine...

NEW DELHI, September 5: The first casualty of war is the truth. And the reporters of the truth have been among the many casualties of the bloody conflict in Iraq. The truth dawns starkly on one when told that more journalists have been killed over the last two years in Iraq than were during the long-drawn Vietnam war. More than 80 members of the news media have died since the war began in March...

Here is a look at the toll since hostilities began in March 2003, as compiled by the Committee to Protect Journalists. JOURNALISTS KILLED ON DUTY: 53 CPJ considers a journalist to be killed on duty if the person died as a result of a hostile action–such as reprisal for his or her work, or crossfire while carrying out a dangerous assignment. CPJ does not include journalists killed in accidents...

The story of Hattiesburg, Miss., is being told worldwide through journalism of a new kind. After Hurricane Katrina slammed into the Louisiana/Mississippi coast Monday it churned through Hattiesburg about 75 miles to the north. Destruction was widespread and conditions deteriorated in the days after the storm. Worldwide media attention focused on the disintegration of New Orleans because of the...