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The prosecution in the Shivani Bhatnagar murder case has claimed before a Delhi court that the deceased journalist intended to expose prime accused RK Sharma of leaking classified documents to her in violation of the Official Secrets Act (OSA), according to the Indian Express. Arguing before Additional Sessions Judge Rajender Kumar Shastri, Special Public Prosecutor SK Saxena said Shivani, who, at...

Reporters Without Borders today welcomed the release of journalist Soheil Assefi, who spent more than two months in preventive detention in Tehran’s Evin jail, but stressed the poor state of press freedom in Iran where four other journalists have been given jail terms and a daily paper shut down. Assefi, a contributor to a number of publications and websites, was freed on 6 October 2007 after...

Senior officials have threatened independent news media and investigative journalist Iqbal Athas in recent weeks, and the government is reportedly planning to increase restrictions on coverage of the security situation as fighting rages in the north, Reporters Without Borders said today. A foreign TV crew was prevented from working in the northern city of Jaffna at the end of last week. "Although...

Reporters Without Borders today voiced grave concern about the safety of Sailab Mehsud, working for the newspaper The News and for Al-Jazeera in Dera Ismail Kahn, south of Peshawar, after an officer in Pakistani military intelligence insulted and threatened him with death. Mehsud, who is also editor of the regional news website Karwan-e-Qabial ( www.karwan-e-qabial.net) and formerly chaired the...

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan on Monday mourned the death of a video journalist who was fatally shot in Yangon during last month's bloody crackdown on pro-democracy protests. Hundreds of people, including scores of Myanmar nationals, gathered at a cemetery in central Tokyo, to join the memorial service for Japanese video journalist Kenji Nagai. Nagai, 50, was shot when the military opened fire on...

WARSAW, Poland: A new Polish daily newspaper will hit newsstands on Oct. 15, staking its place alongside a slew of other publications in a competitive media market. The publisher, Polskapresse, said Monday it would launch the new newspaper — titled Polska, or Poland — six days before the country votes in parliamentary elections on Oct. 21. The newspaper will include some editorial content from The...

BERLIN: Germany's Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung, one of Europe's most conservative daily newspapers when it comes to design, has brightened its front page by adding photographs and dropping the last vestiges of its antiquated typeface. The paper said the changes were a concession to a more hurried age in which readers had less time to navigate through the newspaper, and fewer people found time...

MOSCOW, October 8 (RIA Novosti) - An investigation into the murder of U.S.-born journalist Paul Klebnikov in Moscow has helped solve the murder of journalist Anna Politkovskaya, the chief investigator said in an interview Monday. Politkovskaya, who gained international recognition for her strong criticism of the Kremlin and claims of state-backed atrocities against civilians in Chechnya, was...

NEW YORK - The recent rush by major Internet portals to buy advertising companies and extend their sales networks is a sign that the business of being a one-stop shop for information and entertainment isn't what it used to be. Gone are the days of emphasizing ways to attract and keep visitors — the way television networks long have operated — by creating destinations with anything people might...

The prosecution in journalist Shivani Bhatnagar murder case on Monday told a city court that the deceased was a “personal friend” of key accused and former IPS officer R K Sharma, says a Press Trust of India (PTI) report in the Times of India. Special Public Prosecutor S K Saxena, in his arguments before Additional Sessions Judge Rajender Kumar Shastri, said Sharma had made a “false...