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The 1000-strong Boston Globe employees union is now being backed by labour unions and local labour in their protest against outsourcing of jobs to India by the New York Times Company. The New York Times Company, which owns the Boston Globe, had recently announced the elimination of over 120 jobs at the newspaper. Of these, 55 jobs in advertising and finance would be outsourced to India. The New...

Reporters Without Borders called for justice in the case of five journalists killed almost 30 years ago in East Timor as the judge at a coroner’s court in Glebe, Sydney (Australia) adjourned the three-week old inquiry to 1st May. The worldwide press freedom organisation said that based on testimony so far, it was possible to assert that British journalist Brian Peters and his four colleagues were...

MANGALORE: Panambur police picked up B.V. Seetharam, journalist, and his wife Rohini from their house at Kulai on Saturday night. They were produced before the jurisdictional magistrate at his residence who remanded them in judicial custody. The judge has directed the authorities to produce both of them before open court on Monday for further hearing. The authorities were acting on a complaint...

Television is the favourite news medium for some 98 per cent of Bangkokians, an opinion poll revealed on Sunday. According to the survey conducted among 1,269 Bangkok denizens aged between 18 to 60 by the Assumption University's Abac Poll, 98.3 per cent of the respondents preferred to get their news on TV, the Thai News Agency TNA reported. The survey was to mark Thai Reporters' Day on Monday...

ISLAMABAD: In an attempt to comply with the Supreme Court order of filtering certain websites containing blasphemous content “at all costs”, the Pakistan Telecommunication has blocked access to thousands of vital websites and email servers. The Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) passed on the same orders to the PTCL for action and denial of access to such derogatory websites.mWhile the PTA...

A Kommersant journalist who covered military affairs and had more than once angered government officials fell to his death Friday from a fifth-floor window of the apartment building where he lived. Prosecutors said suicide was the likeliest explanation for the death of Ivan Safronov, a retired colonel who was a columnist at the daily newspaper for more than 10 years. But Safronov's colleagues and...

Less than a year ago, Julia Hobsbawm's fledgling business Editorial Intelligence (EI) was attacked in the press for the audacity of its concept, which was to create a "bridge" between the two sparring worlds of public relations and journalism. Some journalists thought it compromised them to have a formal relationship with commercially driven people from the land of the dark arts. So they took an...

Reporters Without Borders condemned the heavy prison sentences passed yesterday by the regional court of Hargeisa, the capital of the northern breakaway state of Somaliland, on the publisher of the privately-owned daily Haatuf and three of its journalists for allegedly defaming the government, the president and his family. “The Haatuf case has been marked throughout by procedural irregularities...

New York, March 5, 2007—The Committee to Protect Journalists condemns the arrest of freelance reporter Mick McCaffrey and the criminal investigation of Irish Times journalists Geraldine Kennedy and Colm Keena for allegedly publishing private information. Police investigated McCaffrey for several months after the independent Dublin-based Evening Herald daily published his August 2006 article about...

For the Sun, Feb. 20 was a banner news day. The tabloid London newspaper led its front page with an exclusive story on lingerie model Caprice Bourret checking into rehab. The story's three paragraphs were dwarfed by a poster-size color photo of the California-born woman wearing nothing but a bra and panties -- an image tailor-made for a newspaper that thrives on images of topless Page 3 Girls and...