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Sri Lanka's Military commander for Jaffna region, Major Gen. G.A. Chandrasiri Sunday accused Somini Sengupta, a senior reporter for New York Times for "shameful falsification of facts...depraving the true spirit of professional journalism," for quoting him as saying that "certain members of the Security forces are involved in Human Rights violations in Jaffna." The Major General said in a report...

A São Paulo state court banned the Folha de Vinhedo weekly on 15 June from publishing an interview in which Paulo Cabral, the Vinhedo municipal government’s former legal secretary, accused various local officials and businessmen of corruption. The ban was requested by two businessmen named in the interview, Rogério Sanches Cunha and Osias Daudt, and a local judge, Herivelto Araújo Godoy. Their...

Suresh Chandra Adhikary, the editor of the weekly Chure Sadnesh, and Dinesh Kumar Thapaliya, the editor of Kayakairan National Daily, were beaten by police on 16 June when the went to Mahendra Adarsha Hospital in the central district of Chitwan. The police used force to disperse a crowd of local residents who had begun to demolish the hospital’s perimeter wall in order to build a road. When the...

The body of an Iraqi newspaper editor kidnapped last week was found Sunday in Baghdad, police said. Gunmen ambushed Flayeh Wadi Mijthab, editor of the state-owned Al-Sabah newspaper, last Wednesday in eastern Baghdad as he was heading to work. His 25-year-old son and driver were left behind, the Associated Press (AP) reported. Mijthab's body was discovered Sunday near the Firdaws mosque in the al...

A Channel One television reporter said he was shot in the shoulder by an unidentified gunman outside his apartment building last week in an attack that might be linked to a book he is writing about the 1990s aluminum wars. Andrei Kalitin, 37, said he was shot at around 9 p.m. Wednesday in the courtyard of 4 Vysokaya Ulitsa in southern Moscow, Kommersant reported Friday. The attacker fired a...

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip -- Alan Johnston's kidnappers have threatened to "slaughter" him if Hamas tries to rescue him, but Hamas sources say the comments are little more than bluster ahead of an imminent handover of the long-held BBC correspondent. A senior source within the office of Hamas Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh told The Washington Times that in the actual negotiations, the kidnappers have...

NEW YORK (Hollywood Reporter) - NBC News is reaching into the world of print journalism to help it cover the 2008 presidential election. The network's new division is teaming up with the National Journal Group for reporters who will provide in-depth coverage of the candidates on the campaign trail, beginning late this summer. The staff will be a mix of new hires and existing employees from NBC...

Efforts to win the release of the kidnapped BBC journalist Alan Johnston were set back last night when the militants holding him threatened to kill him and said he would not be freed until their demands were met. The warning, from a spokesman for a group calling itself the Army of Islam, came on a day when Hamas officials had suggested Johnston's release was only hours away. "Freeing this detainee...

The extended drama surrounding Rupert Murdoch's unsolicited $5 billion bid to take over family-owned Dow Jones media empire, along with the pending $8.2 billion sale of the Tribune Co. has brought renewed attention to the longstanding debate over media consolidation. While these two high-profile transactions have grabbed the spotlight, they are mere flashpoints in a much larger battle between free...

Despite 200 years of service to Spanish-speaking communities, Spanish-language newspapers' contributions to U.S. journalism have been overlooked. Juan Gonzales is founder/editor of El Tecolote newspaper in San Francisco and he is department chair of journalism at City College of San Francisco. This article is adapted from an earlier contribution to the Journalism History Journal. Historians in the...