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BAGHDAD, Oct. 14 — A journalist for The Washington Post was shot and killed while reporting from a volatile neighborhood in southern Baghdad on Sunday, the newspaper said. The killing, an isolated act that appeared to have been deliberate, was one of at least nine in the capital Sunday. The reporter, Salih Saif Aldin, 32, was shot once in the head, apparently at close range, said the newspaper’s...

GAZA CITY - Hamas’s police force arrested a cameraman in the Gaza Strip on Sunday as he was filming a protest by their secular Fatah party rivals, according to his employer and his family. Nabil Abu Daya, 34, a cameraman for Palestinian public television, was arrested while filming scores of children visiting the homes of slain Palestinians in the Jabaliya refugee camp in the northern Gaza Strip...

Ninety-two percent of people consider newspapers to be a "necessary" or "somewhat necessary" source of information and knowledge, according to a Yomiuri Shimbun survey. Eighty-seven percent of respondents said they "greatly trusted" or "moderately trusted" reports carried by newspapers, the survey said. Although more people are turning to the Internet for news and information, the vast majority of...

NEW DELHI: The government on Friday lifted the month-long ban on TV news channel Live India — earlier called Janmat . The I&B ministry had banned the channel on September 20 for telecasting an allegedly "fake" sting operation against a government school teacher Uma Khurana. This was the first instance of a news channel being banned. In an official statement, the ministry said that the channel had...

The humble television is coming to the aid of the Internet portals when it comes to extending their reach, and selling their wares. Consider this: TV advertising of the Internet portals registered a growth of 190 per cent during January-August 2007 as compared to the same period in 2006, on the back of 77 new websites and a rise in ‘Shopping Portals’ average advertisement on TV during the period...

Imphal, Oct 13: All newspapers and electronic media houses in Manipur remained shut for the third day today since October 11 last after yet another attack on media freedom. On Wednesday last, the outlawed People’s Revolutionary Party of Kangleipak (PREPAK)’s Central Committee sent out a press release regarding its Raising Day celebrations. Later in the night, another faction of the outfit...

MIAMI Leaders of the Inter American Press Association (IAPA) insisted Saturday that the press freedom group will meet next year in Venezuela -- and they essentially dared President Hugo Chavez to stop them. IAPA officials say that in the past months, several hotels in Caracas, Maracaibo, and the resort Margarita Island have agreed to be the venue for the mid-year meeting scheduled for next March -...

NEW YORK: Supporters of Associated Press photographer Bilal Hussein, who has been held without charge by U.S. officials in Iraq for 18 months, marked the year-and-a-half anniversary Friday by presenting an online petition with 1,500 signatures to several top federal officials, organizers said. In a letter faxed Friday to the White House, U.S. State Department, the Speaker of the House of...

New Delhi: For the past few weeks, Indian newspapers have seen a steady drumbeat of media stories on a case involving four employees of Mid-Day tabloid newspaper and their legal woes. The fairly innocuous stories about a former chief justice of India and potential conflict of interests drew the wrath of the Delhi high court, which sentenced the employees, including three journalists, to jail terms...

(PROBIDAD/IFEX) - On 11 October 2007, the National Civil Police announced the capture of José Alfredo Hernández, suspected murderer of radio journalist Salvador Sánchez Roque, who was killed on 20 September. According to the authorities, Hernández is a gang member. He, among others, previously issued death threats against the journalist, believing that the journalist had incriminated them in his...