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When Maggie leaves her township home to catch a bus to work in the mornings, she stops to buy a newspaper. It's a new experience for her. Ten or 15 years ago, she did not bother. Then she occasionally listened to news reports broadcast by radio but, she admits, she wasn't particularly interested. The news did not affect her. "We lived in a different world then," she says. "Now I have a different...

NEW DELHI: The Government on Monday issued the formal notification for constitution of wage boards for journalists and non-journalists of newspapers and news agencies. The two wage boards would be chaired by the former judge of the Kerala High Court, Justice K. Narayana Kurup, and would have 10 members each representing the employers, the working journalists and the non-journalists. As per the...

A US military report that exonerated US troops in the killings of two Al-Arabiya journalists at a Baghdad checkpoint in 2004 has failed to address contradictory witness reports, the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has said. This includes statements from Al-Arabiya employees that at least two US soldiers fired directly at the journalists’ vehicle, newly declassified records show. The report...

Often the writing and photography that win Pulitzer Prizes require heroic efforts on the part of journalists. For one recipient this year, the process of receiving the award also took an enormous effort. In 1979, a photographer stood nearby as executioners shot Kurdish prisoners in Sanandaj, Iran. A picture he took for an Iranian newspaper was picked up by United Press International and published...

(FNJ/IFEX) - The distributors of the daily "Nepal Samacharpatra", who are associated with the pro-Maoist Nepal Publication and Communication Labour Association, padlocked the publication and distribution office of "Nepal Samacharpatra" on 26 May 2007 in the central district of Katmandu. According to "Nepal Samcharpatra", the distributors started the strike after making several demands on the...

(BIANET/IFEX) - The weekly magazine "Nokta" was forced to close in April 2007. It now faces a court case under Article 301 for an interview with security expert Lale Sariibrahimoglu and a follow-up article, both of which criticised the involvement of the army in domestic affairs. Ahmet Sik, the reporter who conducted the interview, and Lale Sariibrahimoglu are being tried at a penal court in...

KHULNA, Bangladesh (Reuters) - A Bangladesh court sentenced a journalist to four years in prison on Monday for taking bribe from forest officials, lawyers said. They said security forces had arrested A.T.M. Rafique, who worked in southwestern Khulna district for a Dhaka-based daily newspaper, in early April while accepting 20,000 taka ($290) from two officials of Bangladesh Forest Department. "The...

MOSCOW -- More than 80 journalists have been murdered for their work in Russia since 1993, the world's largest journalists' organization said Monday. Of 289 journalists killed in Russia over the last 14 years, "more than 80 of the deaths resulted from the work the journalists were doing directly," said John Crowfoot, researcher at the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ). Speaking at the...

NEW DELHI — Obituaries for newspapers are already being written in the United States and much of Europe, with the rise of the Internet and shrinking attention spans listed as the causes of death. But the news hasn't made it to India. Here, more than 150 million people read a newspaper every day — compared with 97 million Americans and 48 million Germans. Circulation numbers in India are soaring...

Reporters Without Borders called today for the immediate release of Abdel Fettah Ould Ebeidna, managing editor of the daily newspaper Al-Aqsa, who was sent to prison in Nouakchott yesterday because of a libel complaint against him by a businessman. “His imprisonment is a very ominous sign for the media at a time when the country is in the grip of a major drugs scandal,” the worldwide press freedom...