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The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has called again for defamation law reform in the Philippines, after the latest round of libel cases against journalists threaten to suffocate the country’s freedom of expression. According to IFJ affiliate, the National Union of Philippines (NUJP), a libel suit worth PHP 30 million was filed by Filipino boxer and International Super Featherweight...

Various media outlets in Arauca continue to face difficulties following the insistence by the guerrilla group Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia, FARC) that they broadcast a FARC press release or face being declared military targets. FARC guerrillas. Two Meridiano 70 journalists have been killed in the last four years due to their work. Another...

The Delhi High Court will hear the final arguments in the Shivani Bhatnagar murder case today, says an Asia News International (ANI) report. Shivani, a journalist with the Indian Express, was found murdered on January 23, 1999. Suspended Haryana IPS officer R K Sharma, is a key accused in the case. Sharma, along with five co-accused - - Pradeep Sharma, Satya Prakash, Ved Prakash Sharma, Ved alias...

Aug. 14 (Bloomberg) -- Tribune Co. said its $8.2 billion sale to a group led by billionaire Sam Zell is still on, disputing an analyst's report that said the odds of the deal closing as scheduled are no better than 50-50. Shares of Tribune fell the most in almost five years after Craig Huber of Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. cut his earnings estimates for the second-largest U.S. newspaper publisher...

Ignored or shunned by almost every cable TV provider in the U.S., the Al Jazeera English news channel has turned to the Internet to reach American viewers. Since April, when Al Jazeera struck a distribution deal with YouTube, the popular video site owned by Google Inc., the channel has received 2 million hits and on one day last month was ranked first, ahead of Paris Hilton and other staple fare...

If the words "print" and "media" conjure up images of plummeting profits, shrinking readership and editors tearing their hair out as they attempt to staunch the exodus to the online universe, you clearly aren't thinking of India. As the country celebrates the 60th anniversary of its independence from Britain, newspapers are flourishing, with growth projections that would impress even the savviest...

(AMARC/IFEX) - AMARC strongly condemns the Colombian government's decision to violate freedom of expression and information by imposing prior censorship, through restricting in an arbitrary and unconstitutional manner community media's right to cover various electoral proposals, conduct interviews and promote debates between the different political parties. In a 9 August 2007 government press...

The American public continues to fault news organisations for a number of perceived failures, with solid majorities criticising them for political bias, inaccuracy and failing to acknowledge mistakes. Some of the harshest indictments of the press now come from the growing segment that relies on the Internet as its main source for national and international news. The Internet news audience –...

New Zealand newspaper publisher APN News & Media has begun outsourcing editorial production work, a plan that will be extended to five daily and three weekly newspapers by year end, the Associated Press (AP) reported. The changes, effective from yesterday, mean that news editing and layout operations at the New Zealand Herald, the country's biggest daily, and a string of regional dailies will be...

Kannur, Aug. 13 (PTI): Scribes of Manorama News TV channel and Malayala Manorama daily's Kannur unit were manhandled by suspected CPI(M) workers while they were travelling in their vehicle here today. The incident occurred as the vehicle got stranded in a rally organised by the pro-CPI(M) "kerala state Karashaka Thozhilali Union' to the head post office here, as the scribes were returning after...