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Triveni Media Ltd (TML), a fully owned subsidiary of real estate and infrastructure group Triveni Infrastructure Development Co Ltd, is set to launch a bouquet of news and lifestyle channels this year, and MJP Media Pvt Ltd, a company promoted by journalist MJ Akbar, will soon launch Covert, a magazine on Indian politics, says a Mint report. Some elementary details: TML will launch a 24-hour Hindi...

The jobs of more than 30 Newsquest prepress staff in Sussex and Wiltshire are at risk with the newspaper publisher pressing ahead with plans to outsource positions to India, says a report in printweek.com. Newsquest Sussex, which publishes Brighton's Argus newspaper, confirmed that 21 jobs will be relocated to the Indian operations of US firm, Express KCS. The move, which would result in a cut...

Press freedom panel Committee to Protect Journalists on Tuesday condemned the weekend arrest of three Ugandan journalists for publishing inflammatory reports. Police on Saturday detained Andrew Mwenda, publisher of the bi-monthly magazine Independent, consulting editor Odobo Bichachi and journalist John Njoroge and accused them of "possessing seditious materials" and "publishing inflammatory...

Pakistan's information ministry has forwarded letters from two Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) supporters to an English newspaper and asked it to print them to rebut an article criticising party leader Asif Ali Zardari, the Indo-Asian News Service (IANS) has reported. “In what is really unheard of, the press officer of the information ministry forwarded two letters of unknown PPP supporters to The...

The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has expressed alarm at the shooting of a Mexican journalist’s house in the southern state of Oaxaca, in what appears to have been a targeted attack, on April 18. The day before the shooting, Melchor López, general director of Radio Mixteca (88.7 FM), a commercial station based in Santiago Juxtlahuaca, said he was followed by white Jeep Liberty truck after...

Russia's lower house of parliament voted Friday to widen the definition of slander and libel and give regulators the authority to shut down media outlets found guilty of publishing such material, the Associated Press (AP) has reported. The legislation, passed by the State Duma 339-1, is the latest attempt by the government to squeeze the country's increasingly embattled news media. Some details...

Assailants on Friday gunned down an Iraqi journalist who had been working for a local radio station run by a Shiite political party that is the chief rival of anti-American cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, the station and police said, according to the Associated Press (AP). Jassim al-Batat, 38, was killed by gunmen in a speeding car as he left his house in the town of Qurna in his own car, said Adnan al...

The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has expressed concern at the harassment in Chechnya of Jane Armstrong, Moscow correspondent for the Canadian national daily the Globe and Mail. Armstrong and her Russian photographer and interpreter Olga Kravets had travelled from Moscow to the Chechen capital of Grozny to report on social and cultural traditions in the southern republic last week, when...

The Malaysian government Thursday lifted the ban on publication of a prominent Tamil daily in the face of fierce criticism by Opposition leaders and pressure from media activists, the Press Trust of India (PTI) has reported. The country's Home Ministry had suspended the publication permit of "Makkal Osai" or People's voice last week on the grounds that the paper had flouted publication guidelines...

A prosecutor dropped two-year-old charges against freelance journalist Sydney Saize in restive Zimbabwe on Tuesday, while a magistrate denied bail to freelancer Frank Chikowore, who has been detained for more than a week. The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) Wednesday called for Chikowore’s immediate release. Mutare prosecutor Malvern Musarurwa declined to pursue charges against Saize, who...