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An interpreter and reporter in the Baghdad bureau of the New York Times was shot and killed Friday, the bureau chief, John F Burns, reported. Khalid W Hassan, 23, was the second Iraqi employee of the Times to be killed during the current conflict. Hassan was shot in the Seiydia district of south central Baghdad while driving to work under circumstances that remain unclear, Burns said. He had...

Applications are being invited for the Social and Environmental Responsibility world journalism prize set up to reward the best articles on social and environmental responsibility published around the world. Every year three prizes will be awarded by the Social and Environmental Responsibility World Forum in partnership with the World Editors Forum: A prize dedicated to a specific topic chosen...

(CPJ/IFEX) - New York, July 13, 2007 - A San Antonio Express-News reporter has been temporarily reassigned from his posting in the border city of Laredo after a U.S. law enforcement source warned that an unspecified American journalist is on the hit list of a Mexican criminal group, the newspaper's editor said today. The Association of Foreign Correspondents in Mexico also issued a warning today...

Google, the world’s most popular internet search engine, is being taken to court for allegedly deceiving millions of users over links that are paid for by its advertisers. In the first legal action of its kind, Australia’s competition watchdog is seeking an injunction to stop Google from displaying search results that did not “expressly distinguish” advertisements. The Australian Competion and...

An Iraqi photographer and driver working for Reuters in Iraq have been killed in Baghdad, the agency has said. Photographer Namir Noor-Eldeen, 22, and driver Saeed Chmagh, 40, were killed in eastern Baghdad Thursday at a time when clashes had been taking place between US forces and militants in the area. Noor-Eldeen was single. Chmagh was married and had four children. Four other Reuters staff —...

NEW YORK: Just a day after United Press International revealed it would lay off its lone White House correspondent with no plans to replace him, comes word that UPI's long-running United Nations bureau will close after 62 years of covering the worldwide organization. In that move, the news organization is losing its most senior reporter, William M. Reilly, who joined UPI in 1961 and covered beats...

(MFWA/IFEX) - "Air Info", a bi-weekly privately-owned newspaper in Agadez, about 1,000 km from the capital Niamey, was suspended on 29 June 2007 by the media regulatory body (Conseil Supérieur de la Communication, CSC) for covering the activities of a rebel group in the northern part of Niger. The CSC has also frozen the newspaper's annual subsidy provided by the government to the media under...

(CENCOS/IFEX) - On 29 June 2007, after 33 years on air, Radio Monitor radio station broadcast its last programme, becoming the first national media outlet to disappear during the mandate of President Felipe Calderón Hinojosa. With this closure, both an avenue for freedom of expression and a source of work for journalists are being lost. The station broadcast from Mexico City, and its news...

BUKAVU, DRCongo, July 11, 2007 (AFP) - The trial of the alleged killers of a prominent radio journalist resumed in the Democratic Republic of Congo on Wednesday with the presentation of eight new suspects. The six men and two women joined two existing suspects in the defendants' box at a military court in Bukavu in eastern DRCongo, as proceedings into the murder of Serge Maheshe restarted after a...

A Sikh organisation has filed a $110 million lawsuit against the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) for allegedly linking it to terrorism and damaging the reputation of the Sikh community. The lawsuit filed by the World Sikh Organisation (WSO) on Tuesday also named CBC reporter Terry Milewski and Legislator Ujjal Dosanjh for comments they made in the June 28, 2007 documentary titled Samosa...