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The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has demanded an immediate investigation into the death of Mohammad Khan Sasoli, who was shot dead in Khuzdar, Balochistan province, in Pakistan's south-west, on December 14. Sasoli, a correspondent with Daily Balochistan Times and DawnNews TV, and president of the Khuzdar Press Club, is the sixth journalist to be reported killed in Balochistan this...

Iranian authorities have arrested three journalists from the daily Sharq, bringing the number of the newspaper's incarcerated staffers to seven in less than a week, according to news reports. In other developments, veteran journalist Mashallah Shamsolvaezin, has been sentenced to 16 months in prison, the BBC reported, and blogger Hossein Derakhshan was returned to jail after being temporarily...

The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has condemned the escalation of violence against media after a series of attacks against journalists by protection officers of both Ukrainian President and Prime Ministers in recent months. Other journalists have also bee victims of similar assaults by lower ranking officials. "We condemn this mindless violence against journalists who are only...

Ukraine’s administrative supreme court has begun examining the appeals of privately-owned TV stations TVi and 5 Kanal against the withdrawal of their over-the-air broadcast frequencies and licences, Paris-based press freedom group Reporters sans Frontières (RSF) has reported. TVi and 5 Kanal are appealing against a June 8 decision by a Kiev administrative court stripping them of their frequencies...

Pakistani journalist Muhammad Khan Sasoli was murdered Tuesday in Khuzdar, a town in the southwestern province of Balochistan that sees frequent clashes between government security forces and armed Balochi nationalists. The correspondent of Royal TV and the INP news agency and president of the town’s press club, he was gunned down outside his home, Paris-based press freedom group Reporters sans...

Dorah Masseung, the executive news director of Papua New Guinea's main public radio broadcaster, the National Broadcasting Corporation (NBC), has been suspended as a result of presumed pressure from the authorities amid a political crisis, according to Paris-based press freedom group Reporters sans Frontières (RSF). Her removal was followed by a directive from the station’s management requiring...

The Chinese authorities refuse to say what has become of journalist and human rights activist Hada, who should have been released from Inner Mongolia’s Chifeng prison on December 10 on completing a 15-year jail sentence. There has also been no direct word from his wife Xinna and his son Uiles, who were arrested 10 days ago. Paris-based press freedom group Reporters sans Frontières (RSF) has called...

On the sixth anniversary of leading Gambian journalist Deyda Hydara’s still unsolved murder, Paris-based press freedom group Reporters sans Frontières (RSF) has appealed to the authorities to stop obstructing an independent investigation and urges President Yahya Jammeh to liberalize the country’s media legislation by repealing the laws that were adopted in 2004. Hydara’s murder on December 16...

Print has a place in the world of new media, as most people still prefer to read offline, says a new KPMG survey. The auditor is running six monthly surveys on media in general, Media and Entertainment Barometer surveys, carried out by YouGov, this is the third such survey, says a PrintWeek report. According to the latest survey, which spoke to 2,241 people, 86 per cent of consumers prefer to...

As suicide attacks multiplied, Pakistan became the world’s deadliest country for the press in 2010 with eight journalists killed in connection to their work, constituting a significant portion of the worldwide death toll of 42, the Committee to Protect Journalists found in its year-end analysis. Iraq with four killings, followed by Honduras and Mexico with three killings each, also ranked high for...