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News and information company Thomson Reuters will cut 140 journalist jobs by the end of the year. In an internal email to staff, the editor-in-chief of Reuters News, David Schlesinger, said having looked into areas of "natural overlap and duplication in coverage" between Thomson and Reuters the newly merged company had decided more than half of the cuts would be in Europe, the Guardian reported...

An Afghan journalist who faces the death penalty for blasphemy has begun his appeal hearings without a defence lawyer. Sayed Parwez Kambakhsh, 23, on Sunday denied charges and said an earlier confession that prompted a court to sentence him to death in January had been extracted under torture, news reports have said. The charges against Kambakhsh relate to an article he downloaded from the...

Authorities in Somalia’s breakaway region of Puntland freed a broadcast corporation chief held on charges that his media outlets incited political upheaval, he told AFP Saturday.Mowlid Haji Abdi was released late Friday after being detained for hours following a police raid on the premises of Somalia Broadcasting Corporation, which operates radio and television stations. "I got my freedom back...

TAM, the JV between Nielson Media and Kantar Media, which measures television viewership across 40 countries, including India, has criticised the Indian government over its efforts to intervene in this space, the Economic Times has reported. It reported: “TAM does not see any role for the government to intervene in any form into this industry exercise, nor does it foresee any requirement of any...

Chinese authorities have freed a Finnish Broadcasting Company (YLE) reporter and a cameraman, the public broadcaster said Friday. The pair, together with a Chinese builder they were supposed to interview, the worker's brother-in-law and an interpreter, had been arrested Friday morning in Henan province. All five were subsequently released. YLE said Pirkko Pöntinen, the reporter, and Mika Mattila...

There's renewed international concern for Sayed Parvez Kambakhsh, a young Afghan journalist sentenced to death for blasphemy. The press freedom group Reporters Without Borders is urging the Afghan government to cooperate with the lawyer of Kambakhsh, who remains jailed in Kabul awaiting an appeal hearing, Radio Free Europe / Radoi Liberty (RFE/RL) has reported. Nearly two months have passed since...

The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has called on Kyrgyz President Kurmanbek Bakiyev to veto a bill that would reverse efforts to reform Kyrgyzstan’s state television and radio company (KTR) into a public broadcaster. Kyrgyzstan’s parliament passed the bill on April 24. It gives the president the right to appoint KTR’s chief executives and affirms the state’s monopoly on national...

The Coahuila State Congress in Mexico has approved amendments classifying the killing of people in retaliation for their journalism as a particularly serious crime, comparable to aggravated homicide. This means that such killings will now be considered very serious and those responsible will face sentences of up to 60 years in prison, ARTICLE 19 has reported. In order to implement the mechanisms...

(Reuters): When Conde Nast launched its premium lifestyle magazine Vogue in India last year, it carried a whopping 168 pages of advertisements of a total 400 pages. Now, the publisher is preparing to launch its luxury men’s magazine GQ and expects a similar rush of advertisers in Asia’s third-largest economy, where rising incomes and growing literacy are boosting readership and revenues of...

A month after journalist Fadel Shana was killed by an Israeli tank crew in the Gaza Strip, Reuters renewed its demand on Thursday for a prompt explanation from the Israeli army of why it fired on its cameraman. Shana, a 24-year-old Palestinian, was killed on April 16 along with eight mostly teenage bystanders by darts known as flechettes that burst out of a tank shell in mid-air. Shana had been...