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(FMM/IFEX) - 7 November 2007, Colombo, Sri Lanka - We express our deep concern and condemn the banning of photojournalists from covering the important budget speech in Parliament today. Although all media institutions were invited to cover the event, it is regrettable that only photojournalists from State-controlled media were allowed to cover the event. Protesting this arbitrary censorship, all...

(IPYS/IFEX) - On 28 and 29 October 2007, the manager of Radio Panorama, Armandina Casafranca Montes, reported to IPYS that unidentified individuals phoned the radio station and threatened to burn and destroy its broadcasting tower situated on the San José hill, in the city of Andahuaylas in the Apurímac region, southeastern Peru. Casafranca Montes accused the mayor of Andahuaylas, Manuel Molina...

(FNJ/IFEX) - Maoists threatened and attacked three journalists in Rukum in response to news published recently in the local weekly "Jantidhara". Narayan Shah, president of the Federation of Nepali Journalists' (FNJ) Rukum chapter, received a death threat from Raj Kumar Sirpahi "Subodh", a cadre of the Maoist-aligned Young Communist League (YCL), on 30 September 2007 and from Maoist District...

(PPF/IFEX) - Police in Pakistan's largest city, Karachi, raided and threatened to seal the printing press of the Jang Group, Pakistan's largest media house, on 5 November 2007, after the management refused to follow verbal orders from government officials to stop printing the daily "Awam", one of the group's evening newspapers. According to the Jang Group, "Awam" managers had decided to print an...

Reporters Without Borders firmly condemns a crackdown by the security forces on the privately-owned news media. Dozens of journalists have been detained, attacked or prevented from working. Transmission equipment has been seized from several broadcast media. New regulations on newspapers and broadcast media promulgated on 3 November are a death warrant for some of the privately-owned TV and radio...

NEW DELHI: INX Media on Tuesday said it has promoted founder and chairperson of the Group Indrani Mukerjea to the post of Chief Executive Officer. The decision to this effect was taken by the Board of Directors of INX Media in its meeting today. It also appointed Peter Mukerjea as Executive Chairman and Chief Strategy Officer. Indrani will report to the Chairman and the Board of Directors of the...

SYDNEY: As global sports administrators try to squeeze more money out of coverage of events, media outlets in Australia have threatened to boycott the international cricket season starting this week. A new contract drawn up by Cricket Australia increases limitations on what can be published in print, online and in the burgeoning mobile phone market, and media companies, including one of the...

The circulation declines of American newspapers continued to accelerate over the spring and summer, as sales across the industry fell almost 3 percent compared with the year before, according to figures released today. The drop, reported by the Audit Bureau of Circulations, reflects the growing shift of readers to the Internet, where newspaper readership has climbed, and also a strategy by many...

NEW YORK (AP) -- New York magazine agreed Tuesday to stop accepting sex ads after the local chapter of the National Organization for Women threatened protests outside the offices of the popular weekly publication. The women's rights group had accused New York of being a "marketing arm of the organized crime world of prostitution and human trafficking" because of classified ads at the back of the...

THE circulation declines of American newspapers continued over the spring and summer, as sales across the industry fell almost 3 percent compared with the year before, according to figures released yesterday. The drop, reported by the Audit Bureau of Circulations, reflects the growing shift of readers to the Internet, where newspaper readership has climbed, and also a strategy by many major papers...