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New York, May 4, 2007—The Committee to Protect Journalists is troubled by a claim that a television journalist was threatened by an elite police force commander after reporting on a police raid on the home of a political activist. ` Jahangir Alam Akash, a reporter for CSB News, said he was threatened over the telephone after reporting on the raid on the house of Benjir Ahmed, in the northwestern...

(RSF/IFEX) - Edri Vladimir "Vla" Pujols, a member of a gang known as "Los Zayayines", was sentenced on 2 May 2007 to 30 years in prison for the 2004 murder of Juan Andújar, a correspondent of the daily "Listín Diario". He was also ordered to pay the equivalent of 30,000 euros in compensation to another journalist, Jorge Luis Sención, who had to have an arm amputated after being attacked by Pujols...

AMMAN, Jordan: Jordanian authorities lifted a ban on a local newspaper's edition confiscated last week because it carried an article deemed "harmful" to Palestinians, the head of Jordanian Press Association said Friday. Tareq al-Monami told The Associated Press that the April 30 edition of the semimonthly newspaper Al-Majd which was seized during printing can be reprinted. Al-Monami said his...

Reporters Without Borders today hailed the resumption this week of an inquest into the murders of cameraman Brian Peters and four other journalists 32 years ago in East Timor, saying it hoped every aspect of their deaths would be clarified and insisting that it was not too late for those responsible to be punished. After suspending hearings for two months, a Sydney coroner resumed the inquest...

My name is Anne and I’m a blogger. Bloggers come in many shapes and sizes. Some are professional journalists. Others are amateur fanboys. A few create original content, but most riff on other people’s blogs. (At thompsononhollywood.com, I do both.) Some are erudite and write with charm and brio. Others suck. But for better or worse, blogs are here to stay. And they’re reshaping the coverage of...

NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- Reuters, the financial news agency whose founder started off selling stock quotes via carrier pigeon in Europe, appears set to recommend a takeover bid from Thomson Corp., a rival in the financial news business, according to a news report Friday. Without quoting any sources, the Financial Times reported on its Web site late Friday that Reuters "appeared willing to...

News Corp., launching a two-pronged offensive, is planning to take its case for buying Dow Jones & Co. to the media company's controlling shareholders, the Bancroft family, and directly to the newsroom of the company's flagship, The Wall Street Journal. The media conglomerate run by Rupert Murdoch is considering making its case to journalists detailing the company's plans for capital investment...

An Egyptian producer employed by the Qatar-based satellite TV station Al-Jazeera, Howayda Taha, was sentenced in absentia yesterday, the eve of World Press Freedom Day, to six months in prison for preparing a report on torture in Egyptian prisons. She was found guilty of “harming national interest.” “We are outraged by this conviction, which confirms the fears we have repeatedly voiced since the...

DHAKA (Reuters) - Four journalists were killed and 158 wounded in Bangladesh over the past year while discharging professional duties, a local media monitoring group said on Thursday at a seminar to observe World Press Freedom Day. "During the last 12 months, from May 2006 to April 2007, a total of 498 journalists were harassed during their professional duties," said Kamrul Hassan Monju, executive...

New Delhi, May 3 (IANS) On World Press Freedom Day, Thursday, Union Information and Broadcasting Minister Priyaranjan Dasmunsi announced that All India Radio and Doordarshan would have a 50:50 ratio of men and women for anchoring, reporting and all other news-related work from August 15, India's Independence Day. While addressing a seminar here jointly organised by the ministry of women and child...