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ASMARA • Eritrea, where the private media was shut down in 2001, is the “largest jailer of journalists” in Africa, a press freedom group said yesterday. The Vienna-based International Press Institute (IPI) called for pressure to be put on the Eritrean government to “release the imprisoned journalists whose only transgression was to have expressed their opinions.” “Based on information provided to...

Detective branch of Khulna Metropolitan Police (KMP) Sunday night arrested one person allegedly involved in the murder of journalist Humayun Kabir Balu. KMP sources said a team of detective branch arrested Alhaj Nazimuddin Ahmed, a close neighbour of the slain journalist, from Iqbalnagar in the city. He will be interrogated for three days in police remand. Former president of Khulna Press Club and...

Certain countries act as though they are unaware of Article 26 in the Universal Declaration of Human rights which says that everyone has the "right to freedom of opinion and expression.'' It's the same one that says that everyone also has the right to "seek, receive, and import" information and ideas "regardless of frontiers." To cut to the chase, it's an article seeking to protect journalists...

The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) today urged the government of Côte d’Ivoire to take urgent actions to put an end to newsrooms robberies after four media companies have been raided in a period of two months by armed groups who stole office equipment and documents. “We condemn these attacks, which are creating an environment of fear and panic in the press,” said Gabriel Baglo...

KARACHI, July 10: Journalists on Tuesday expressed concern over the killing of a cameraman who was performing his duties during the Lal Masjid Jamia Hafsa operation in Islamabad, and demanded that the owners of newspapers and TV channels take appropriate measures to provide protection to journalists. They also demanded that the government should provide facilities to the media people and devise a...

A Chicago television reporter left her job after she was caught on video in a swimsuit at the home of a man whose wife disappeared two months ago — a story she was assigned to cover — raising ethical questions about her conduct. The video, posted on a rival station's Web site, shows veteran WMAQ-TV reporter Amy Jacobson wearing a halter bikini top and towel near the pool at Craig Stebic's suburban...

New Delhi, July 9 : The Editors Guild of India today strongly condemned the threats issued to K. Gopalakrishnan, Editor, Mathrubhumi Malayalam, by leaders of the CPI(M) and its frontal organisations in Kerala. It also condemned the appearance of anonymous posters in Kerala warning that Gopalakrishnan would be framed with lewd charges. It described the purported attack on Gopalakrishnan as a crude...

A city court on Tuesday, suspended the non-bailable warrant issued against the editor of a national daily following a submission that he was not in the country to appear before it in the Shivani Bhatnagar murder case, in which suspended IPS officer R K Sharma is the prime accused, the Times of India has reported. Additional Sessions Judge Rajender Kumar Shastri, who had earlier in the day issued a...

The deadline for applications for 2007 Dart Center Ochberg Fellowships in Journalism and Trauma is July 20. Fellowships are open to print, broadcast and online and reporters, photographers, editors and producers with at least five years of journalism experience. Reporting responsibly and credibly on violence and traumatic events — on crime, family violence, natural disasters and accidents, war and...

(RSF/IFEX) - Reporters Without Borders has voiced concern about the survival of the privately-owned weekly "Public Eye" following an order from the government to all state and parastatal agencies at the start of June 2007 not to buy any more of its advertising space. "Allowing political and malicious considerations to determine where state advertisements and announcements are placed is outrageous...