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(RSF/IFEX) - Reporters Without Borders has condemned the treatment meted out to two British journalists, Andrew Carter and Aidan Hartley, and their Chinese fixer Dean Peng, working for the investigative programme "Unreported World" on British TV's Channel 4. The two were investigating the fate of petitioners held by the authorities in a western district of the capital, when they were assaulted by...

(CEPET/IFEX) - Mexico, 18 September 2007 - Federal judicial authorities have acquitted four journalists in Monclova, Coahuila, in northeastern Mexico, of the dubious charges brought against them by officials who arrested and mistreated the journalists when they tried to cover an anti-narcotics operation in August 2007. On 7 August, the journalists were arrested and detained by Army troops and...

The Burmese junta has cut off the mobile phones of prominent pro-democracy supporters and of some journalists representing foreign media, including two from Agence France-Presse, the news agency has reported. The management of AFP has requested that the authorities in Burma (Myanmar) restore mobile phone service to its reporters so that they can carry out their work. Burma's military government...

(Business 2.0 Magazine) -- Newspaper ad sales are expected to decline 5 percent in 2007, so it's no surprise that print publications are eager to squeeze more cash out of their Web sites. One obvious source: local advertising, which accounts for more than 80 percent of ad spending but less than 20 percent of Internet ad sales. Now Canadian firm NewspaperDirect is offering the Adget, a new kind of...

New York, September 18, 2007— An abducted Pakistani journalist alleged that he was kidnapped by government agents a few days ago and released after questioning. Babar Hussain, a reporter for Dawn TV, was grabbed near his home in Rawalpindi, near the capital, Islamabad, by three men in a two-door cream-colored Pajero—a vehicle favored by government intelligence agencies, according to many local...

Reporters Without Borders is dismayed by the Casablanca appeal court’s decision today to uphold a prison sentence for reporter Mostapha Hurmatallah of the Arabic-language weekly Al Watan Al An, one week after he was freed pending the outcome of his appeal. “This ruling marks the end of the relative respite the Moroccan press has been enjoying of late,” the press freedom organisation said....

The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) welcomes the release of Li Yuanlong, a reporter for Bijie Ribao daily newspaper in Guizhou province. Yualong is the second journalist this week to complete a jail sentence imposed by the Chinese authorities and to be released on the promised date. Yuanlong was first detained in September 2005. He was tried on May 11, 2006, for charges of “inciting...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - News Corp chief Rupert Murdoch on Tuesday sketched out early plans for Dow Jones & Co Inc, saying he leaned toward making the online Wall Street Journal free but had not yet made a decision. Murdoch also projected about $100 million in cost savings, or double the amount earlier anticipated, saying he had identified "low-hanging fruit." His $5.6 billion purchase of the...

Sept. 18 (Bloomberg) -- Time Warner Inc. Chief Executive Officer Richard Parsons said the media company's board will decide on the timing for Jeffrey Bewkes to succeed him. ``I'm in a transitional mode,'' Parsons, 59, told investors today at a Goldman Sachs Group Inc. conference in New York. He has publicly supported Bewkes, the company's chief operating officer, as his successor. As CEO, Bewkes...

(FNJ/IFEX) - On 16 September 2007 Sanker Panthi, a correspondent for the Butwal-based daily newspaper "Naya Satta", was found dead with injuries over his head and body on the Mahendra Highway, in Sunwal, Nawalparasi district. According to Keshav Parajuli, the president of FNJ's Nawalparasi chapter, Panthi met his fate while on his way to collect news about the destruction by locals of a Young...