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CNN-IBN's Rupashree Nanda has been given the Chameli Devi Award for Outstanding Woman Mediaperson for 2007. Rupashree was selected from a field of 20 entries from all over the country. The jury consisting of Alok Mehta, Editor, Outlook and President of the Editors Guild of India, Sachidananda Murthy, Editor of the Week and Secretary General of the Guild, and Coomi Kapoor, Contributing Editor, the...

The search for a missing millionaire executive of a UK newspaper has entered its second week after Latvian police failed to make any headway on his disappearance last week, says a report in the Independent. Leonid Rozhetskin, the Russian-born backer of the business free sheet City AM, has not been seen since last weekend when he vanished from his holiday home in Latvia. The businessman, who co...

A Moroccan court has fined the country's leading newspaper a whopping 6 million dirhams for mistakenly alleging that a judge had attended a gay wedding party in the Muslim country. Rachid Nini, editor of the daily Al-Massae said the paper would appeal the verdict and expressed concern that the authorities were using the courts to try and shut down a troublesome critic, according to Reuters. Last...

The Zimbabwe government has done what it was expected to do ahead of the March 29 general elections—it is clamping down on the media. To start with it has refused to allow several leading international news organisaitons to cover the elections although it has signed international conventions that require it to guarantee “total access to national and international media.” A jail sentence of up to...

The Wageboard for Journalists and Non-Journalists will submit its report on interim relief to the union government within a month, Board Chairman Justice K Narayana Kurup said on Tuesday, according to a Press Trust of India (PTI) report. This assurance was given by Justice Kurup to a delegation of Kerala Union of Working Journalists (KUWJ) and Kerala Newspaper Employees Federation (KNEF) at a...

Leading Egyptian newspaper editor Ibrahim Eissa has been sentenced to six months in prison for "reporting" on President Hosni Mubarak's health problems. Eissa, editor of Al-Dustour, will post the 200 Egyptian pounds bail (US$40, €25) to avoid serving his sentence while he appeals. "The state has been put at risk," Judge Sherif Kamel Mustafa said in a Cairo court, while reading out the verdict...

The Rwandan government has launched an intensive hunt for the founder and editor of the private bi-monthly newspaper Umuco “for insulting the president”. The newspaper has already been suspended for a year and Managing Editor Bonaventure Bizumuremyi is now in hiding after he compared President Paul Kagame to Nazi leader Adolf Hitler. Local journalists said six police cars surrounded Bizumuremyi’s...

A Chinese TV journalist faces prosecution after he tried to pass off video footage of a circus tiger as evidence that a wild tiger lived in a forest park in southern China. It marked the latest in a series of cases in which China's media have questioned the authenticity of purported images of endangered animals. Wu Hua, a reporter with a local television station in Pingjiang county in southern...

Leading Egyptian editor Ibrahim Eissa will Wednesday face charges of publishing "fake news about the president's health which afflicted the national economy." If convicted, Eissa faces up to three years in prison and a fine of as much as 20,000 Egyptian pounds ($3,600). This in the backdrop if the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) condemning the Egyptian government over raids and...

Jan 23, 1999: Shivani Bhatnagar, principal correspondent of the Indian Express, murdered in her East Delhi flat, when she was with her infant son. July 30, 2002: Delhi Police arrest Sri Bhagwan as he allegedly spills the beans on IPS officer RK Sharma. August 03,2002: Delhi police team raids Sharma’s residence at Panchkula in Haryana. Pradeep Sharma, the alleged killer, is arrested by police...