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The government of South Korea has ordered home documentary filmmaker Kim Young Me from Iraq, where she was on assignment, the New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has eported. Kim returned to Seoul on August 9, after leaving Iraq on August 3. She had been embedded with American forces in Iraq's dangerous Diyala province, when US military authorities were told she did not have her...

Fatou Jaw Manneh, a US-based Gambian journalist, faces a possible prison sentence if found guilty of sedition charges following an interview highly critical of President Yahya Jammeh and his administration, which she granted to the media in 2004. The Kanifing Magistrate court trying her has fixed August 18 as the day it will give its ruling on the case. Manneh has been charged on three counts of...

Reporters sans Frontières (RSF) has condemned the murder of Mohammad Azim Leghari of the newspaper Halchal and the Sindh-language television station Dharti TV, who was gunned down in Dadu City, in the southern province of Sindh, while covering story of a young couple trying to "marry for love." The couple was the target of fierce criticism from conservative clans, who could have been responsible...

Gannett Co Inc plans to eliminate 1,000 positions from its local newspapers around the US because of declining advertising and circulation revenue, and may cut more if those conditions persist, says a Reuters report. The largest US newspaper publisher said the cuts equal about 3 per cent of the positions in its Community Publishing unit, according to a memo obtained by Reuters on Thursday. The...

Being at the helm of power seems to have given the Congress an edge over other parties in getting more coverage on the front page of newspapers, with a new study claiming that the grand old party got almost three times more space than their co unterparts. While a total of 377 reports on Congress appeared in the Delhi edition of four leading English newspapers - Indian Express, Times of India...

A senior reporter of a national Hindi daily and his associate were brutally murdered in Bhopal on Tuesday, the Telegraph has reported. The bodies of Shahdeo Pandey (43) and his associate Mohammad Sabir were recovered after several hours of search Wednesday morning. Details from the report: It is believed they were throttled to death and their heads smashed with stones. They were heading towards...

The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has called on Iranian authorities to make public any charges against a Kurdish journalist and human rights activist who they have held for more than two weeks, or release him immediately. On July 27, security forces arrested Saman Rasoulpour, 23, a Kurdish journalist and a member of the Organisation for the Defence of Human Rights in Kurdistan, in his...

A veteran reporter with the Tel Aviv-based Hebrew-language daily Yedioth Ahronoth was severely injured on Tuesday in an attack in the central Georgian city of Gori. It was the same attack that killed Dutch cameraman Stan Storimans and injured his RTL Nieuws colleague Jeroen Akkermans. Zadok Yehezkeli suffered injuries to the stomach, leg, chest, and shoulder, and underwent two operations in a...

Reporters sans Frontières (RSF) has urged the FBI to release more information about the procedures they used in 2004 to obtain reporters' telephone records while they were stationed at the New York Times and the Washington Post bureaus in Indonesia. Paris-based RSF welcomed Thursday the apology the FBI made to the newspapers' editors for improperly using the so-called "exigent letters" to obtain...

The Israeli government should carry out an independent investigation into the killing of Reuters cameraman Fadel Shana, the Committee to Protect Journalists has said. New York-based CPJ also called on the Israel Defence Forces (IDF) to work with journalists and media groups to ensure that journalists operating in the Gaza Strip are able to do their jobs safely. An Israeli military investigation...