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The killer of journalist Carlos Cardoso has been re-arrested, 36 hours after he made his third escape from Maputo’s high security prison, Reporters sans Frontières (RSF) has reported. Anibal Antonio dos Santos Junior, “Anibalzinho” is serving a 30-year-sentence for the November 2000 murder of the investigative journalist, who was the editor of the daily Metical. Police arrested the fugitive Monday...

Kurdish physician and freelance journalist Adel Hussein has been released from prison in Erbil (330 km north of Baghdad) under a pardon granted by the president of the Iraqi region of Kurdistan at the start of every religious festival, Reporters sans Frontières (RSF) has reported. Hussein had been in prison since November 24, when he was found guilty of offending public decency under article 403...

The Tribune Co, owner of the Los Angeles Times, the Chicago Tribune and other US dailies, has filed for bankruptcy. The Chicago-based company said it was forced to seek bankruptcy protection Monday because of a sharp drop in revenue and a 13-billion-dollar debt load but has enough cash to sustain operations while it restructures, news reports said. The Tribune's eight newspapers, 23 television...

The Pulitzer Prizes in journalism, which honour the work of American newspapers appearing in print, have been expanded to include many text-based newspapers and news organisations that publish only on the Internet, the Pulitzer Prize Board has announced. The Board also has decided to allow entries made up entirely of online content to be submitted in all 14 Pulitzer journalism categories. While...

Journalists in Manipur have been assured of a high-level probe into the killing of a fellow scribe. The state government had lately decided to ask for a Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) probe to identify the killers of Konsam Rishikanta. A trainee sub-editor of the Imphal Free Press, an English daily, Rishikanta, was shot dead by miscreants in state capital, Imphal on November 17. The cabinet...

The Christian Science Monitor and the McClatchy Co, which owns 30 US dailies, have agreed to share foreign news coverage in the latest cost-saving move by the ailing US newspaper industry, Agence France-Presse (AFP) has reported. The Monitor and McClatchy, the third-largest US newspaper chain, said in a statement that they would share stories by Monitor correspondents in New Delhi and Mexico City...

Newspapers’advertising volume drops 60 per cent in the first week of November, says a Business Standard report. If AdEX data on advertising volume between 1st and 7th November is any indication, print media advertising (in column cms) has fallen by a dramatic 60 per cent from its peak during the Diwali week. The daily reported: [ Link] LV Krishnan, CEO of TAM Media that owns the advertising...

Media coverage of clinical trials does not contain the elements readers require to make informed decisions. A comparison of the coverage received by pharmaceutical and herbal remedy trials, reported in the open access journal BMC Medicine, has revealed that it is rarely possible for the lay public to assess the credibility of the described research. Tania Bubela from the University of Alberta...

Ten journalists, mostly of them photojournalists, were injured on Sunday when police and paramilitary personnel beat them up while they were covering anti-election demonstrations during the fourth phase of the Assembly polls in North Kashmir's Sopore constituency. The injured were shifted to a nearby hospital where from one of the seriously injured—Mukhtar Khan of AP—was shifted to a hospital...

The man behind the 2000 murder of a prominent Mozambican investigative journalist escaped for the third time from custody on Sunday with the help of his prison guards, Reuters has reported quoting Interior Minister Jose Pacheco. Anibal dos Santos was serving a 30-year prison sentence for his involvement in the gangland shooting of Carlos Cardoso, who was slain while probing a $14 million...