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Reporters Without Borders voiced concern today about deputy information minister Alyaksandr Slabadchuk’s announcement on 20 August that a working group is being set up to look at the “Internet’s legal regulation.” The announcement came two weeks after President Alexander Lukashenko threatened to put an end to “anarchy” on the Internet. “We are alarmed that the authorities have decided to pursue...

Aug 23 (Reuters) - Dow Jones & Co Inc (DJ.N: Quote, Profile, Research), which is being acquired by News Corp (NWSa.N: Quote, Profile, Research), on Thursday named new general managers for three key online operations. The company said Daniel Bernard, vice president of marketing for The Wall Street Journal Digital Network (formerly Dow Jones Online), is now general manager of The Wall Street Journal...

Sudanese authorities released a local journalist Monday who had been held for two months for allegedly violating a government ban on coverage of dam construction in the northern part of teh country. Five other activists were released besides the journalist, news agencies hve reported. Courtesy: sudaneseonline.com The state-run SUNA news agency said Mujahid Abdallah had violated the prohibition...

NEW YORK: After more than 10 years of newspapers slowly migrating to the Web, most have embraced the medium as their future, showing they can break news, provide audio and video extras, and give readers more space to react and rebut than ever before. Successes are many, ranging from exclusive online interviews to sourcing details that give readers more complete information than any daily could...

On Aug. 14 a computer hacker named Virgil Griffith unleashed a clever little program onto the Internet that he dubbed WikiScanner. It's a simple application that trolls through the records of Wikipedia, the publicly editable Web-based encyclopedia, and checks on who is making changes to which entries. Sometimes it's people who shouldn't be. For example, WikiScanner turned up evidence that somebody...

The ongoing conflict between journalists and newspaper employers has intensified with the Swedish Newspaper Publishers' Association (Tidningsutgivarna - TU) extending its proposed lockout to include staff at web publications. Around 100 newspapers have been affected already by the dispute. Arbitration has failed to revive stalled talks over a new collective agreement for some 5,500 newspaper and...

The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has called on journalists’ groups around the world to provide support to Peruvian journalists and their families who have been made homeless in the earthquake disaster which shook the country last week. A dog passes next to a semi-submerged pick-up, in an area flooded by waves triggered by Wednesday's quake in Paracas, a popular tourist spot just...

The trial of Igor Velchev for the murder of NTV journalist Ilya Zimin did not begin as scheduled in Ocnita, Moldova, because the four NTV employees who discovered Zimin’s body in his Moscow apartment were not in court. The trial was postponed until October 2. It was the third postponement for the same reason. The Moldovan prosecutor’s office said the NTV journalists were notified by mail that they...

The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has strongly condemned the attempted assassination of broadcast journalist Manuel Kong and regards the incident as a severe threat to media workers’ personal safety as well as a brutal violation of freedom of speech. According to IFJ affiliate, the National Union of Journalists of the Philippines (NUJP), Radio DSXN commentator Kong was shot by an...

Independent Cuban journalist Armando Betancourt Reina, who had been imprisoned at the Cerámica Roja Prison in the central city of Camagüey since May 2006, has been released. Betancourt Reina, a reporter for the independent news agency Nueva Prensa Cubana, left prison Monday morning, the US-based Radio Martí reported. Shortly later, Betancourt Reina told the Miami-based group Directorio Democrático...