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The leader of a small Turkish nationalist party and the editor of a left-leaning newspaper have been detained in a probe into a shadowy ultra-nationalist gang, Reuters reported quoting Turkish media on Friday. Thirty-nine people have already been charged in the police investigation into the far-right group, known as Ergenekon, over allegations that it sought to engineer a coup against the country...

Reporters sans Frontières (RSF) is worried about death threats made on March 18 against Auricela Castro García, the publisher of El Mundo de Orizaba, a daily based in Orizaba, in the southeastern Mexican state of Veracruz. The aim of the threats appears to have been to deter the newspaper from reporting that a local police inspector helped the town’s former police chief to evade arrest. “We...

Argentine television journalist Juan Carlos Zambrano was shot to death Wednesday morning in the northern province of Jujuy. Two unidentified men approached Zambrano, host of the daily news and the weekly opinion programme “Con la Gente” (With the People) on local television station Canal 7, outside his home in the provincial capital of San Salvador de Jujuy around 2:30am, according to reports in...

The World Association of Newspapers (WAN) and other publishers organisations have welcomed Google CEO Eric Schmidt’s statement supporting the aim of the Automated Content Access Protocol (ACAP) to give publishers more control over the use of their content. Speaking to a reporter in Sydney earlier this week, Schmidt said that the only barriers to Google’s implementation of ACAP were technical, and...

The Chadian government effectively forced the country’s only permanent foreign correspondent to leave the country on Thursday after withdrawing her work permit without explanation, the Committee to Protect Journaliusts (CPJ) has reported quoting local journalists. Sonia Rolley, a journalist reporting for several France-based media outlets, including Radio France Internationale (RFI), Agence France...

Two senior photojournalists were injured when they were assaulted, allegedly by AIADMK activists, while covering a clash between two rival groups of the party during a function organised in connection with the inauguration of a AIADMK youth camp in Rameshwaram on Thursday. Police told Press Trust of India that M Seenivasan, photo journalist of Tamil daily, Dinamalar, suffered injuries on the head...

The Sri Lankan government has appointed a recently retired army Major General to a senior position at the troubled state broadcaster, Sri Lanka Rupavahini Corporation (SLRC). The appointment came as authorities released three journalists who had been held without charge for almost two weeks. Two other journalists arrested at the same time remain in custody. According to the Free Media Movement...

Two journalists who covered the volatile North Caucasus have been murdered in Russia in the last 24 hours, the first such killings in nearly a year. The motives are still unclear. Firefighters found the body of Ilyas Shurpayev, a correspondent for Russian state television’s Channel One, in his Moscow apartment early Friday morning. He had been strangled and stabbed. The perpetrators had apparently...

Dow Jones & Co, recently bought by Rupert Murdoch's News Corp, has struck a deal with Agence France-Presse (AFP) to distribute news from the Paris-based agency through its Dow Jones Newswires unit, replacing a partnership of more than 40 years with the Associated Press (AP). Dow Jones Newswires will also expand its global editorial staff as part of a broader investment in financial news, the...

Foreign direct investment (FDI) in the print media has been allowed to overcome the shortage of capital being faced by the newspaper industry in the country, a Press Trust of India (PTI) report has said. Union Minister for Information and Broadcasting (I&B), PR Dasmunsi on Wednesday informed the Rajya Sabha in a written reply that several Indian companies engaged in publishing newspapers and...