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Lana Shaheen is one of the ten Palestinian woman television reporters, who was trained at the Aljazeera Centre in Qatar. Since her return, she had to adjust the principles and skills she learnt to the harsh reality of a tense conflict area. Ten Palestinian women, all professional television reporters under the age of 27, from Gaza and the West Bank, travelled to Qatar in December 2005 for an...

The Dawn Group of Newspapers, Pakistan’s largest English language newspaper and magazine publishing house, is facing serious economic pressures as well as legal harassment by the government of Pakistan for it coverage of events and policies related to militancy and security in the country. Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf (C) salutes during the Pakistan National Day parade in Islamabad March...

Papers belonging to Washington Post reporters Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein concerning Mark Felt, the source known as Deep Throat, have gone on public display at the University of Texas at Austin. Some can be viewed online. The first set of notes includes a direct quote from Felt: “this could ruin the admin, I mean ruin.” Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward. 1973. Woodward and Bernstein’s papers...

India's national public service broadcaster Doordarshan is to launch two 24-hour channels in the UK, including a news service. The free-to-air channels, which will mostly broadcast in Hindi with 20% of their content in English, will be launched by private group Rayat TV on the Sky platform on 16 April. News channel DD News will feature breaking news as well as business and current affairs while...

A beleaguered Robert Mugabe has now threatened foreign correspondents with unspecified government reprisal in capital Harare over alleged biased reporting. Zimbabwe's veteran leader Robert Mugabe at his birthday celebrations in Mkoba, Gweru, central Zimbabwe, February 2007. Mugabe has denounced opposition leader Morgan Tsvangirai as a stooge of the West in the face of mounting international...

A journalist-humourist in Peru has been given a suspended sentence of four years and a fine of 3.400 nuevos soles (approx US$ 1,100) for plagiarising his own novel. On March 22, Judge Sonia Salvador Ludeña, of the Sixth Criminal Court of Lima (Sexto Juzgado Penal de Lima), sentenced the journalist and humourist Nicolás Yerovi to a suspended sentence of four years and a fine of 3.400 nuevos soles...

A free web portal to help both citizens and journalists create and responsibly operate community news sites launched Monday with an array of learning and resource modules contributed by a network of participants. The Knight Citizen News Network (KCNN) seeks to help build capacity for citizens who want to start their own news ventures and to open the doors to citizen participation for traditional...

Reporters Without Borders voiced dismay today that Germán Hernández Vera, the managing editor of the regional Diario del Huila daily newspaper in the southwestern city of Neiva, was forced to flee the region this month after being repeatedly threatened. It is the second case of forced flight by a journalist since the start of the year. “Hernández’s case once again highlights the virtual...

(RSF/IFEX) - RSF is deeply disappointed by Panamanian President Martín Torrijos' decision, on 21 March 2007, to endorse two articles in the newly-amended criminal code that violate press freedom. "By approving these two articles, President Torrijos is restricting the freedom of action of journalists to the point of preventing them from fulfilling the role they are meant to play in a democracy,"...

ANKARA, Turkey: A right-wing politician detained for questioning in connection with the killing of an ethnic Armenian journalist was released Tuesday without charge. But police were still questioning three other members of the local branch of the conservative and nationalist Great Unity Party over the Jan. 19 murder of journalist Hrant Dink. The three were scheduled to appear in court on Wednesday...