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The International Federation of Journalists has called for a "wide-ranging and honest" debate within Bulgarian journalism over intolerance in media following the presentation of a journalism prize by press owners to a reporter who has a reputation for hate-speech. IFJ says the award of this year's Chernorizetz Hrabur Young Journalist of the Year prize to Kalin Rumenov, a journalist with the...

Authorities must thoroughly investigate the murder in Dagestan of Telman Alishayev, a reporter and host for the Islamic television channel TV-Chirkei, and the severe attack in Kabardino-Balkariya against Miloslav Bitokov, editor-in-chief of the independent weekly Gazeta Yuga, the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has demanded. Alishayev died Wednesday gunshot wounds suffered in an attack on...

Iranian authorities expelled Hassan Fahs, the chief of Al Arabiya news television station's Tehran bureau Tuesday after revoking his media accreditation, the Arabic Network for Human Rights Information (ANHRI) has reported. According to Al Arabiya's website, a documentary film about Iran aired under the title "The Road to The Revolution" may be the motive behind this decision. The new Iranian...

Reporters sans Frontières (RSF) has expressed outrage at the way Amy Goodman, the host of the nationally-syndicated radio and TV programme Democracy Now!, and two of her producers, Sharif Abdel Kouddous and Nicole Salazar, were manhandled and arrested by police while covering demonstrations Monday outside the Republican Party convention in St Paul, Minnesota, US. Paris-based RSF has called for an...

The editor of the New York Sun, a small five-day-a-week newspaper that professes to offer "an alternative" to the New York Times, said Wednesday the paper may close at the end of September if it doesn't receive new backing, Canadian Press (CA) has reported. The Sun was founded in October 2001 and began publishing daily in April 2002. Some details from the CA report: The Sun "has yet to achieve its...

Reporters sans Frontières (RSF) has voiced its full solidarity with journalists in Jammu & Kashmir, who have undergone one of the worst periods in decades since the outbreak of protests in early August. The press freedom violations have taken a heavy toll, with a cameraman killed, more than 30 journalists beaten by security forces, local TV stations censored and newspapers unable to publish...

Reporters sans Frontières (RSF) has voiced deep shock and sadness at the death of the sister of journalist Sadeq Jaafar Bashir, sub-editor on the Kurdish monthly review Araa (Opinions), who was gunned down in a murder attempt against him at his home in Baghdad. According to Paris-based RSF, 217 journalists and media assistants have been killed in Iraq since the start of the war in March 2003...

Russian federal authorities must undertake a thorough, independent, and transparent investigation into Sunday’s shocking death of Magomed Yevloyev, owner of the popular news website Ingushetiya, who was killed in the custody of police in Ingushetia, the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has said. Yevloyev died from a gunshot wound to the head while being transported by Ingush police following...

Magomed Yevloyev, the owner of a Russian opposition Internet site who was shot dead on Sunday, was the latest in a series of Russian journalists to have been killed or to die in suspicious circumstances. Media freedom groups say Russia is one of the world's most dangerous countries for journalists and that no one has been prosecuted over most of the deaths. Here are some of the most high-profile...

Reporters sans Frontières (RSF) has reiterated its appeal to Palestinian political leaders to put an end to a wave of arrests of journalists. At least four are currently detained in the West Bank and Gaza Strip and the press freedom organisation calls for their release. "The political struggle between Hamas and Fatah has inflicted a great deal of damage on the press in the Palestinian Territories...