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Gunmen dragged a woman freelance journalist from a taxi in Iraq's northern restive city of Mosul on Sunday and killed her in broad daylight, a local police officer told Agence France-Presse (AFP). Tharwat Abdul-Wahab, 30, was on her way to work when a group of gunmen pulled her out of the vehicle and shot her in the head in eastern Mosul's Al-Baqar neighbourhood, the policeman said on condition of...

Fiji's military government deported the Australian publisher of Rupert Murdoch's Fiji Times newspaper on Friday, after declaring him a threat to national security, according to Reuters. The move is the latest crackdown on the media in Fiji since military commander Frank Bainimarama seized power in a bloodless coup in late 2006, and comes amid growing international criticism of the slow progress in...

The Confederation of Newspaper and New Agency Employees Organisations on Friday said it would seek the intervention of top leaders, including Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, the Press Trust of India (PTI) has reported. The confederation at its meeting Friday criticised the decision of wage board chairman Justice K Narayan Kurup to postpone the meeting and decided that it would seek the intervention...

To mark World Press Freedom Day, Moroccan journalist Mustafa Hormatallah began a three-day hunger strike on Friday to protest his imprisonment in Casablanca, while journalists led by the National Syndicate of the Moroccan Press planned to stage a sit-in on Saturday. Hormatallah, a journalist with the independent weekly Al-Watan Al An, was sentenced in August 2007 to eight months in jail, and his...

The Israeli military said Wednesday that initial findings from its investigation into the killing of a Reuters news agency cameraman indicated that troops did not realize they were firing at a journalist, the Associated Press (AP) has reported. Palestinian cameraman Fadel Shana, 23, was killed April 16 by tank fire while covering fighting between Israeli troops and Gaza militants. His colleague...

Fiji's military government defied a High Court order and deported the Australian publisher of the South Pacific country's leading newspaper Friday, continuing a campaign of media intimidation it began within days of seizing power, the Associated Press (AP) has reported. The coup-installed government said Fiji Times publisher Evan Hannah was a threat to national security who breached his work...

A fast track court in Udaipur on Wednesday sentenced a guest house owner to life imprisonment for rape of a 40-year-old British journalist last December and fined him Rs25,000 while also convicting him for house-trespass to commit an offence punishable with life in prison, the Hindu has reported. Parbat Singh, owner of Pardesi Guest House in Ambamata area of Udaipur, criminally assaulted the...

A committee to protect editorial integrity at the Wall Street Journal said on Tuesday it will be more active in the search of a new managing editor for the paper after being blindsided by the resignation of Marcus Brauchli, according to a Reuters report. The committee, whose duties include the hiring and firing of top Journal editors, learned of Brauchli's departure after the fact, which it said...

DB Corp Ltd, the publisher of Dainik Bhaskar, will launch a Hindi business paper by the end of July, the Mint newspaper has reported. Executives told the newspaper that while a formal date for the launch has not been fixed, the paper, to be called Bhaskar Business, will launch in all the strong markets of the Dainik Bhaskar and will likely have 10-15 editions. Yatish Rajawat, a former associate...

ONE of India's leading newspapers launched an unusual advertising drive last month. “Money cannot buy our integrity” read a front-page slogan in Daily News & Analysis (DNA), a Mumbai daily. “Make the headlines tomorrow. By paying for it,” it added, in reference to some other papers' supposed tendency to give favourable coverage to firms that place advertisements. That charge is hard to prove. But...