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Local journalists are being assaulted, detained and harassed by security forces in Bangladesh attempting to enforce the indefinite curfew imposed Wednesday on capital Dhaka and five other cities in response to growing unrest across the country. On Wednesday, the military-backed interim government announced an indefinite curfew in six urban centres that had been the scene of violent clashes between...

The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) today said the injuries sustained by two journalists embedded with Canadian troops in Afghanistan were a further indication of the dangers facing media staff in conflict zones – even for those travelling under the protection of armed forces. “This attack shows the perilous reality of embedded journalism,” said Aidan White, IFJ General Secretary....

Panos South Asia invites Television journalists from India to apply for a fellowship to research and produce television features around HIV/AIDS in India. There will be two fellowships, one to focus on the Northeast (one or more states) of India and the other will be for the rest of the country. The Fellowship will run from October 2007 to Dec 2007. Selected Fellows will be provided editorial...

Twenty leading blog service providers in China, including Yahoo.cn and MSN.cn, have signed a “self-discipline pact” to end anonymous blogging. People use computers at an internet cafe in Suining, southwest China's Sichuan province, January 11, 2007. Under the new pact, blog service providers in China are being “encouraged” to register users under their real names and contact information before...

News audiences in the United States (US) are discarding television and newspapers and using the Internet as their main source of information in a trend that could eventually see the demise of local papers, a new study has claimed. A man surfs the web at an internet cafe. News audiences are ditching television and newspapers and using the Internet as their main source of information, in a trend...

As Moldova prepares to celebrate its Independence Day on 27 August, Reporters Without Borders points out that this year has been marked by many violations of journalists’ rights and a parliamentary resolution on press freedom proposed by the opposition last month was unfortunately rejected. “We condemn the Moldovan ruling party’s recent rejection of the possibility of making concrete improvements...

Rupert Murdoch doesn't yet own the Wall Street Journal, but he's already flexing his muscles. In the last two weeks, the chairman of News Corp. has called at least three reporters who were considering leaving the top financial publication and asked them to stay, people familiar with the calls said Thursday. Some journalists in the newsroom took the gesture as a sign of Murdoch's commitment to keep...

Reporters Without Borders today condemned the censorship of six privately-owned Arabic-language dailies during the past five days in an attempt by the security forces to suppress reports about the arrests of eight alleged terrorists. “The vice-president announced the official lifting of censorship nearly a year ago,” the press freedom organisation said. “Now we regrettably see that this practice...

Kolkata, Aug 23 (PTI): The media were barred from covering a high-level meeting between Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadev Bhattacharjee at a five-star hotel here today. Though the state government's information and cultural affairs department had sent invitations to a section of the media yesterday, these were cancelled hours later. A statement said,...

Kula Lumpur, 23 August (AKI) - A Malaysian Tamil-language newspaper, Makkal Ossai, has apologised for publishing an image of Jesus holding a cigarette and what appeared to be a can of beer. However the daily is facing calls be shut down, according to a report in the Malaysian daily, The Star. The picture of Jesus was reportedly downloaded from the Internet and used on the front page of the paper...