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Vir Sanghvi, CEO of INX News and editorial head of the group's upcoming news channel News X, has left the INX group. He is said to be launching another news channel very soon, indiantelevision.com has reported. A source close to Sanghvi confirmed the developments to Indiantelevision.com, adding that equity driven issues and that of accountability was what 'finally broke the camel's back'...

The last three years have been incredibly dangerous ones for journalists — the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) report on media deaths Deadly Stories 2007 highlights the range of risks that they face all over the world. “This year’s report again shows the tragic attacks on reporters, photographers, translators, delivery truck drivers and all other media workers remain at record levels...

The Principal Bench of the Company Law Board (CLB) on Monday held that the allotment of 10,208 shares of Rs 100 each of the United News of India (UNI) in favour of Media West was null and void and not binding on the UNI, says a Hindu report. CLB chairman S Balasubramanian passed the final order on a company petition filed by ABP Private Ltd; Manipal Media Network; Kasturi and Sons Ltd and the...

The World Association of Newspapers and World Editors have called on Chinese authorities to release journalist Hu Jia, who was arrested last month, apparently for participating in a European parliamentary hearing. In a lettter to Premier Wen Jiabao, the Paris-based WAN and the WEF said China should immediately release Mr Hu and all other jailed Chinese journalists under reforms it promised in its...

The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) today called on the authorities of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) to release journalist Maurice Kayombo, who has been held for two weeks on charges of “blackmail and disparaging an official,” after the secretary-general of the mining ministry filed a complaint against him. “We condemn this detention, which is being used to intimidate...

The International Federation of Journalists has called on journalists’ unions to support a global day of action on Saturday to renew efforts to combat impunity and to mark the anniversary of a media massacre in Latin America. IFJ has also welcomed today’s launch of special book in Lima marking the 25th anniversary of a tragic incident when eight journalists and a media worker were brutally killed...

Newspapers are now fighting it out over the Hindi news space. Mint has an exclusive report on the scene: The list of companies includes Bennett, Coleman and Co. Ltd (BCCL), Business Standard Ltd, Amar Ujala and Jagran Prakashan Ltd and Television18 India Ltd (the last two have partnered to launch a local language business daily). Numbers show the vernacular business news market is underserved...

The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) today called on Chadian authorities to end a wave of media repression, which started in November 2006 in the wake of violent conflict in the eastern part of the country and has most recently been seen in the detention and intimidation of media executives. Lazare Djekourninga Kaoutar, the director of FM Liberté radio station, is charged with...

Press freedom in Pakistan requires the revocation of two anti-press freedom ordinances implemented by President Pervez Musharraf’s caretaker government since emergency rule was declared on November 3, 2007 and an independent journalist-designed code of ethics, according to a new report Emergency in Pakistan: Crisis Mission Rapid Assessment. The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and the...

NDTV's office in Ahmedabad was on Saturday smashed by hockey stick-wielding activists of a right wing Hindu fundamentalist group, the channel reported. The Shiv Sena, which has been involved in similar attacks elsewhere, denied that it was involved in any way. Members of the Hindu Samrajya Sena group forced their way in and beat two employees with hockey sticks and steel pipes. They broke all the...