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Reporters sans Frontières (RSF) has deplored the Niamey public prosecutor's decision to file an immediate appeal against an investigating judge's June 23 decision to allow detained journalist Moussa Kaka to be released provisionally. The appeal blocked the release of Kaka, who continues to be held in a Niamey prison. The director of privately-owned Radio Saraounia and the Niger correspondent of...

A South Korean journalist was deported from Burma by the ruling military junta on June 22 for visiting the office of the opposition National League for Democracy (NLD). Lee Yu Kyong, a freelance journalist from South Korea, was deported to Thailand, according to Mizzima News. "At about 7:00 am, five policemen from Special Branch (a police unit in Rangoon) arrived at my hotel. They asked me where I...

Radio Sucre deputy news director Raúl Rodríguez was gunned down in in the western Ecuadorian city of Guayaquil, according to Paris-based Reporters sans Frontières (RSF). The attack took place at about 7:20 a.m. (local time) as Rodríguez returned to his home in the northern district of Guayacanes after hosting his early morning programme "Good Morning Ecuador" on Radio Sucre. He was getting out of...

The International Press Institute (IPI) has condemned the jailing of Mohammed Al-Mokaleh, one of the founding members of the Yemeni Journalist Syndicate, for laughing in a Yemeni court. On June 15, a Yemeni prosecutor accused Al-Mokaleh of "attacking and defaming the judicial system," for laughing out loud during the concluding moments of the trial of Abdelkarim Al-Khaiwani, former editor-in-chief...

Two unidentified men beat and stabbed Luis Pablo Guardado Negrete, deputy director of the local daily Noticias de la Bahía, on Saturday afternoon inside his office in the western Mexican state of Nayarit. The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has called on the local authorities to investigate the attack and bring all those responsible to justice. At 3 p.m. on Saturday, two men arrived at the...

Ecuadorian journalist Raúl Rodríguez Coronel was shot to death this morning in Guayaquil, according to the New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ). CPJ is investigating all possible links between Rodríguez’s work as a journalist and his death. Rodríguez, news vice president and host of the daily news and opinion programme “Buenos Días Ecuador” (Good Morning Ecuador) on the Guayaquil...

Crime has outrun cricket and cinema in the battle for Television Rating Points (TRPs), at least as far as the brutal twin murders of 14-year-old schoolgirl Aarushi Talwar and domestic help Hemraj are concerned. According to Television Audience Measurement (TAM), a company which rates television programmes, news channels scored nine points for the telecast of the Noida twin murder case as compared...

Times Online has rolled out an elaborate digital newspaper archive stretching back more than 200 years. The archive includes more than 20 million articles from every edition of the Times except for a small number of damaged issues from 1785 to 1985, says a Guardian report. It includes the Thunderer's coverage of events such as the Battle of Waterloo, the first convicts arriving at Botany Bay and...

The Union Information and Broadcasting Ministry has set up a media monitoring centre to keep a watch on channel content. The ministry is expected to come out with a set of guidelines shortly even though there is no consensus on the issue between the government and private broadcasters, says a report in the Hindu. Some details: Located at the Prasar Bharati office, the Rs. 16-crore Electronic Media...

Twenty-nine global media organisations have appealed to the United Nations to put pressure on Sri Lanka to protect journalists, who have been described as "enemies of the state" for being critical of the government's role in the civil war in the country. The media organisations affiliated to the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) said in a letter to UN Secretary-General Ban ki-Moon that...