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The presidential office Monday urged journalists and representatives of media related civic groups to accept President Roh Moo-hyun's proposal to hold a live TV debate on his government's plan to close most of the pressrooms at government offices by August. The Journalists Association of Korea (JAK) turned down Roh's offer, insisting that five prerequisites for the debate with the president remain...

ISLAMABAD, Pakistan: The Supreme Court reprimanded a senior journalist Tuesday over a report related to President Gen. Pervez Musharraf's suspension of Pakistan's top judge. The reprimand to Mohammed Saleh Zaafir came amid increasing curbs on the media's ability to report on the political crisis triggered by the suspension of Chief Justice Iftikhar Mohammed Chaudhry. The court interrupted a...

Local newspapers are making inroads into producing their own video newscasts and challenging local TV stations, reports Broadcasting & Cable. Video newscasts are becoming a popular tactic employed by local newspapers looking to add a younger audience that is increasingly looking beyond print media for news sources. Newspapers who've made the digital transition include Miami Herald, Florida-based...

LONDON, June 12--Prime Minister Tony Blair on Tuesday said the news media, driven by increasing competition and pressure from fast-changing technology, has largely abandoned impartial reporting in favor of sensation, shock and controversy, which he said demoralizes public servants and badly serves the public. "The fear of missing out means today's media, more than ever before, hunts in a pack,"...

(CPJ/IFEX) - (New York, 12 June 2007) - Rwanda's Information Minister revoked the publication license of a newspaper without a required court order three days after the paper's first edition. "The Weekly Post", a privately owned, English-language weekly, did not publish this week after Information Minister Laurent Nkusi revoked its authorization, according to a copy of an official letter obtained...

(RSF/IFEX) - Reporters Without Borders has voiced satisfaction at the transitional federal government's decision to allow three privately-owned radio stations - HornAfrik, Shabelle and Quran Karim (Holy Koran) - to resume broadcasting on 10 June 2007, four days after it ordered them to suspend operations. "This decision was to be expected, as the high-handed fashion in which the stations were...

(RSF/IFEX) - Reporters Without Borders has given a cautious welcome to a decision by the Tashkent prosecutor's office to drop charges of tax evasion, defamation and working without accreditation against three freelance journalists who work for the German public broadcaster Deutsche Welle. After investigating Yuri Chernogayev, Sajera Ruzikulova and Obid Shabanov for months, the prosecutor's office...

The Chicago Sun Times will roll out up to 30 hyper-local citizen journalism websites by the end of the year. The sites will be grouped at neighborhoodcircle.com, which launched three test sites in suburbs of Chicago in April this year, and cover small areas of the city that could be home to as few as 10,000 people. The sites, which will be managed by a team of community reporters, will encourage...

ISLAMABAD: Journalists have announced to stage a protest demonstration today (Tuesday) as Senate Secretariat denied to issue cards to journalists for coverage of the Upper House session following a successful negotiations between member of National Assembly and the journalists after pandemonium of last week. Imposing ban on permanent cards of journalists, Senate Chairman Mohammedmian Soomro...

ISLAMABAD: The Supreme Court on Monday directed the counsel for the Press Association of the Supreme Court (PAS) to file single petition for each case of alleged harassment of journalists and specify special redress of grievance, which would make easy for the court while giving relief, reported the Online. Staff Report adds: The SC also sought details of the incidents of alleged harassment and...