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Reporters Without Borders called today on the Somali and Ethiopian governments to explain why two Eritrean state TV journalists had been held in secret after being arrested late last year along with several Somalis and foreigners near the border with Kenya. “Like many other foreign journalists, they were reporting on the situation in Somalia and were not foreign fighters, as those arrested with...

Reporters Without Borders today strongly deplored a fire that swept through the offices of the fortnightly newspaper Tribuna do Povo, in Várzea da Palma (300 km north of Belo Horizonte, in the southeastern state of Minas Gerais) on 9 April and called for those responsible to be arrested and punished. It said the blaze resembled one that destroyed the offices of a newspaper and two radio stations...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Radio host Don Imus was dumped by CBS Radio on Thursday in an inglorious end to a 30-year career that erupted in controversy over racist and sexist comments about a women's college basketball team. CBS's decision to nix the popular "Imus in the Morning" show, which mixed locker-room humor with interviews with top stars and politicians, followed days of uproar after he called...

A dozen companies that own about 250 daily newspapers are preparing to expand a ground-breaking partnership with Yahoo Inc. to share advertising and editorial content, several newspaper executives familiar with the situation said. The companies, facing the flight of readers and advertisers, are working with Yahoo to give wider Internet play to their news reports, draw users to their Web pages and...

Reporters Without Borders today called on the federal authorities to permit the reopening of two new, Lagos-based broadcast media, Link FM and GTV, which were abruptly closed by the security forces yesterday, three days before elections for state governors and state parliaments. “Elections should be a time when the government takes more care than ever to respect the rule of law,” the press freedom...

The National Union of Journalists is planning a "quality journalism" campaign to make sure that media workers can resist what it calls employers' attempts to "squeeze more and more" out of staff. Many journalists working on multimedia projects and new platforms such as podcasts were "approaching breaking point", warned the NUJ general secretary, Jeremy Dear. With the union's annual conference...

NEW YORK: With newspaper publishers scrambling to assemble lucrative online advertising alliances, McClatchy Co. has abandoned its nascent partnership with Tribune Co. and Gannett Co. to defect to another team of publishers negotiating a wide-ranging deal with Internet powerhouse Yahoo Inc., according to a published report. An agreement between Yahoo and the consortium — which already includes 12...

During the Easter weekend, Cedar City saw a strong example of citizen journalism. Darin Bloomfield, an SUU student, upon seeing a SWAT vehicle with its lights flashing cruising through his neighborhood, grabbed a video camera and began taping. When he realized he had something significant, he contacted various news organizations and provided the footage to them. The University Journal editorial...

Kolkata, April 12: Wage boards for journalists and non-journalist employees are likely to be constituted within this month, Union Labour Minister Oscar Fernandes said here today. "I am trying to constitute the wage boards very soon," Fernandes told newspersons here. Asked whether the wage boards would be constituted within this month, he answered in the affirmative. The government had on December...

Hearst Magazines has announced plans to launch a new consumer Web site that taps into the rapid rise in environmental consciousness in the U.S. The site, TheDailyGreen.com, is set to go live in beta form on April 22, i.e. Earth Day. The new venture’s development was lead by former Meredith and Primedia executive Deborah Jones Barrow, in conjunction with the Hearst Magazines Digital Media group –...