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(RSF/IFEX) - Ibrahim Manzo Diallo, the editor of "Aïr Info", a privately-owned fortnightly paper, based in the northern city of Agadez, was charged on 29 October 2007 with "criminal association" and was placed in pre-trial detention in Agadez prison, where he is being held with common criminals. No date has been set for a trial as the case is still being investigated, his lawyer said. "Bringing...

(CESO-IFJ/IFEX) - "La Verdad" magazine director Pedro Antonio Cárdenas, whose daughter was the target of an attempted kidnapping on 24 October 2007, received another death threat on 29 October at 10:49 a.m (local time). A male voice told him to remember that both Cárdenas and his family were military targets. This is the fourth death threat that the journalist has received in October. In a...

(MFWA/IFEX) - On October 2007, Mady Conde, associate managing editor of "La Nouvelle", a bi-monthly independent Conakry-based newspaper, was banned from engaging in any journalistic activity for one month by the National Communication Council (CNC), a media regulatory authority. "La Nouvelle" was also suspended by the CNC for the same period of time. A Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA)...

NEW DELHI: The Centre on Wednesday informed the Delhi High Court that it was planning to bring an amendment in Press Council on India Act to give it more teeth for acting against newspapers and magazines which publish obscene pictures. The Centre shared its plan for give more powers to the PCI with a Bench comprising Chief Justice M K Sharma and Justice Sanjeev Khanna which was hearing a bunch of...

BANGALORE: A young woman reporter with The Hindu was beaten up by two as-yet-unidentified men on a motorbike on Convent Road on Monday evening. Ayesha Matthan, reporter with MetroPlus, was walking down on Convent Road when the men illegally rode the motorbike on the footpath behind her. When they asked her to move out of the way, she refused and told them to get off the footpath. An altercation...

The major broadcast networks have made big strides in the portrayal of Latinos in primetime, but still lag behind when it comes to images of Asian Americans and American Indians. That's the latest findings from the Multi-Ethnic Media Coalition, which released its seventh annual diversity report card Tuesday. The alliance - made up of the National Latino Media Council, Asian Pacific American Media...

HARARE (AFP) — Zimbabwean authorities are to consider an application by a popular daily newspaper to resume publication four years after it was banned, a government minister announced on Tuesday. Information Minister Sikhanyiso Ndlovu told a news conference that the government had decided to revive a regulator with responsibility for issuing licences to media houses and the body would immediately...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - The number of people visiting U.S. newspaper Web sites rose 3.7 percent during the third quarter, according to an industry group, even as their print editions reported lower advertising sales. More than 59 million people, or 37.1 percent of all active Internet users, visited the papers' Web sites during the quarter, up from 56.9 million a year ago, the Newspaper Association...

Oct. 30 (Bloomberg) -- Time Warner Inc.'s Fortune magazine will publish a local edition in India next year, following the start of Fortune China and Fortune Turkey. Fortune India will be the first of the three local editions to be in English, Danielle Perissi, a spokeswoman for the Fortune/Money Group unit, said in an interview today from New Delhi. Fortune is seeking readers and advertisers...

Reporters Without Borders is outraged by the prolonged detention of journalist Ata Farahat, who was arrested on 30 July and is being held in Al-Jalama prison (14 km southeast of Haifa). The organisation has been told he could be prosecuted for “collaborating with an enemy nation” but this has never been confirmed by the Israeli authorities. “Three months have gone by since Farahat’s arrest and we...