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The International Federation of Journalists has condemned changes being made in the management of major broadcast media in Korea which amount to political interference. According to IFJ affiliate, the Korean Association of Journalists (JAK), the government of Lee Myung Bak, which took over in February, is trying to manipulate media to suit their political tastes by appointing executives to state...

The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has called on Senegalese authorities to put an end to the attacks on media and independent journalists and to build a new relationship with journalists. The call came after a police raid of a printing house to prevent distribution of the newspaper L'As and the interrogation of the paper's publisher. On Thursday, Mamadou Thierno Talla, L'As Director...

Rinat Kazakbaev, accused of murdering journalist Yury Aleksandrov and his wife, was sentenced to a life imprisonment according to the Article 97 of the Kyrgyz Criminal Code for the “atrocious murder of two or more persons”. According to 24.kg website, the high-profile case ended with the guilty verdict of the Alamudun district court judge Tolomush Asylov on august 4. The court has also decided to...

The Editors Guild of India has expressed shock at the pressure tactics being adopted by the Bharatiya Janata Party against CNN IBN Television channel. Criticising BJP leader Venkaiah Naidu for declaring that his party would boycott CNN IBN, if the channel does not immediately telecast the tapes of the sting operation carried out in concert with the BJP MPs in New Delhi on Juy 22 in connection with...

A journalist of a local daily was shot dead on Friday in Madhya Pradesh's Rewa town, the police said, according to a report in Hindustan Times. Deepak Mishra, who was working as the chief of bureau of a leading Hindi daily Dainik Bhaskar, which is published from Jabalpur, was going in a car with some unidentified people when gunshots were heard near Rewa bus stop. "It appears that Mishra had some...

Ali Al-Mashhadani, an Iraqi cameraman employed by the Reuters news agency, was arrested on July 26 by US troops while he was visiting the Iraqi parliament press centre in Baghdad's Green Zone. "Mashhadani has been held without charge by the US military since 26 July and must be freed at once," Paris-based Reporters sans Frontières (RSF) said. "It is unacceptable that US troops arrest a journalist...

Zimbabwean journalists Wycliff Nyarota and James Muonwa were Tuesday convicted of publishing falsehoods in breach of the repressive Access to Information and Protection of Privacy Act (AIPPA), according to the Media Institute of Southern Africa (MISA). Kwekwe Magistrate Oliver Mudzongachiso found Nyarota and Muonwa guilty of contravening Section 80 (1) (a) of AIPPA for unlawfully and intentionally...

One year after the murder of US journalist Chauncey Bailey, investigation into the incident has not made any progress. Instead, the case has become more complicated as new information surrounding the motives for Bailey's murder has come to light. Evidence, some recorded by the police and some uncovered by investigative reporters, points at someone other than the currently accused defendant as a...

The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has condemned recent attacks on Palestinian journalists by both governments of Hamas and the Palestinian Authority which are locked in a political power struggle. The recent reports of torturing journalists in the Gaza Strip and West Bank is the culmination of an intimidation campaign against journalists and media which started during the violent...

Only about 13 percent of the Washington daily newspaper press corps are journalists of color, according to a study on diversity by UNITY: Journalists of Color, Inc and the Walter Cronkite School of Journalism and Mass Communication at Arizona State University. There were slightly more journalists of colour covering the US capital in 2008 than there were four years earlier when UNITY conducted its...