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Representatives of the North Ceylon Journalists Association (NCJA), in a meeting with the two visiting representatives of Reporters sans Frontiérs (RSF) and Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) Wednesday that "the Sri Lanka Armed Forces' intimidation and restrictions intensifying each day in the Jaffna peninsula are pushing Jaffna Media services into an abyss of darkness more than ever before."...

Beginning next month, Web portals will not be able to retain news content for more than one week due to an agreement among major domestic newspapers. This means Internet users will not be able to search for any news through the portal sites seven days after they were provided to the Web portals. Instead, they will have to visit the online sites of newspapers to read a specific article. The...

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Internet advertising and access spending by U.S. consumers will rise each year by double digits on average through 2011, fuelled by high-speed connections and social networking and entertainment sites, according to a forecast released on Thursday. PricewaterhouseCoopers' Global Entertainment and Media Outlook expects combined spending on Web advertising and fees paid by U.S...

PESHAWAR: Reporters Sans Frontiers (Reporters Without Borders) has voiced “revulsion” at the murder of Noor Ahmed Solangi, correspondent for the Sindhi-language newspaper Khabroon, in Kingri, Sindh. Solangi, 34, died in a hail of nine bullets after he was ambushed by six people on motorbikes and armed with Kalashnikovs, who shot him at point blank range as he was distributing newspapers on June 17...

The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has joined protests against the closure of the French-language daily Cambodge Soir and voiced its solidarity with the 30 newspaper employees who face losing their jobs. According to local reports, on June 12, only a day after Cambodge Soir journalists launched a strike protesting the unfair dismissal of news editor, Soren Seelow, management...

The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has criticized the Government of Nepal for not doing enough to protect journalists even after continuous threats and attacks on them, reported the local website nepalnews.com Wednesday. "We urge the Nepalese government to take a firm stance against the shocking treatment to journalists," IFJ Asia-Pacific Director Jacqueline Park said Wednesday...

Journalists in Yemen rallied in protest after police arrested a Yemeni opposition editor accused of backing the country's Shiite rebels. Dozens of journalists gathered in front of the general prosecutor office in the Yemeni capital, San'a, demanding the release of the Al-Shura weekly's editor Abdel Abdul Karim al-Khawinay, taken by police to jail earlier in the day. Undated photo shows Yemeni...

Tinsukia (Assam), June 21: A scribe of a popular local daily was arrested from upper Assam’s Tinsukia for allegedly selling sim cards to the ULFA and for being entrusted to prepare the groundwork for setting up a new frontal organisation. District Superintendent of Police Prasanta Kumar Bhuyan told reporters that Robin Dhekial Phukan, correspondent of ‘Asomiya Pratidin’, the largest...

Despite experts and health organizations refuting the theory of a connection between vaccines and autism, recent events have brought the debate front and center in the news once again. But are the media actually doing a disservice to the public by continuing to bring up vaccines when discussing autism? "Do I think they've done a disservice? Yes," said Dr. Gregory Poland, director of the Vaccine...

(CPJ/IFEX) - New York, June 21, 2007 - Two newspapers in Kathmandu have suspended publication this week in response to pressure, including death threats, from a Maoist party-affiliated trade union, the All-Nepal Communication, Press and Publications Trade Union. Nepalese journalists told the Committee to Protect Journalists that the trade union action appeared to be aimed at influencing coverage...