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(RSF/IFEX) - On 6 November 2007, two plainclothes police officers disrupted an interview with demobilised soldiers by "Economist" reporter James Miles and his assistant Jin Dan from the British weekly's Beijing bureau in Yantai, Shandong province, eastern China. The two had been followed by an unmarked car as soon as they arrived in Yantai the previous day. Two police officers who had been...

Reporters Without Borders today urged the authorities to stop the prosecution of Abdulkarim Al-Khaiwani, a freelance journalist and former editor of the now closed weekly Al-Shoura, on a charge of “publishing information liable to undermine army morale” under article 126 of the criminal code, for which the maximum penalty is death. “Khaiwani is critical of the government headed by President Ali...

Ifra will launch a vertical search engine for the newspaper industry in January, its CEO claimed. Opening the Beyond the Printed Word conference, in Dublin today, Reiner Mittelbach told delegates that the engine would help interested parties easily find news, information and reports on the newspaper business. Ifra's project manager, Dr Amrei Wiederin, later told Journalism.co.uk that the project...

BRISBANE, Australia (AFP) — Australia's Test cricket season opened with international fans unable to follow the action after organisers locked global news agencies out of the ground in Brisbane. The row also left Australia's largest media organisation, News Limited, unable to cover the first day of the Australia-Sri Lanka Test, although it secured a breakthrough with Cricket Australia later in the...

(IFJ/IFEX) - The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) is concerned by the demand from the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia at The Hague to question eight Croatian journalists over publication of confidential information related to the prosecution of Ante Gotovina for war crimes. "We are deeply disturbed at the prospect of the Tribunal questioning journalists for...

The Government of Pakistan has called for talks with the Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists (PFUJ), an affiliate of the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ), to discuss the media crisis in the country since the Government imposed emergency decrees at the weekend. Pakistan’s Minister for Information, Mohammad Ali Durrani, will meet senior officers of the PFUJ and the Rawalpindi...

New York, November 8, 2007—The Pakistani government is continuing efforts to silence the press by harassing journalists, attempting to shut down printing presses, and censoring articles critical of the government, local journalists told CPJ today. News editors at the Urdu-language Daily Ausaf in Islamabad and at the English-language Express in Lahore said their papers were given written orders to...

NEW YORK -- A few years ago, it might have seemed far-fetched to imagine representatives from traditional media stalwarts like The New York Times and MTV Networks urging others to follow their lead in adapting to survive an evolving online environment. But the times, they are a-changing. Here at the ad:tech New York conference today, exhortations came from MTV, NYTimes.com and other Web media...

KURNOOL: The Congress government in the state on Wednesday once again muffled the media by arresting two journalists of two vernacular dailies for what it called distorting facts with regard to a report on the Indiramma scheme. Though the journalists — Boya Sriramulu, contributor of ‘Andhra Jyothi’ and Boya Urukundu of ‘Andhra Bhoomi’ — were picked up from Kodumuru town at 7 am on Wednesday, they...

GLOBAL media coverage of today's first cricket Test is in disarray, with international media agencies boycotting the event after accusing Cricket Australia of blackmail in the latest fight over digital sports rights. And a lock-out of journalists at the first Test with Sri Lanka at the Gabba was only narrowly avoided yesterday as negotiations over CA's attempt to restrict online coverage continued...