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An Iranian website fiercely critical of President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has been shut down in an apparent fresh crackdown on anti-government dissent on the internet, according to the Guardian. The Baztab.com site was banned on February 12 for violating last November’s rules, which forbid the publication of "false" information, "violating the constitution" and attacking "personal privacy" or "the...

The deputy editor of the settler newspaper Nekuda, Hayuta Deutsch, has been fired in the wake of ideological differences with editor Motti Karpel. According to sources at the paper, Karpel, who in the past was among the Jewish Leadership group headed by Moshe Feiglin, is giving Nekuda more of a messianic and less of a right-wing political hue, as the paper had been characterized until now. Nekuda...

BAKU - Azeri authorities have arrested two journalists, who work at a newspaper that covers Iranian issues, for high treason, a spokesman for the ministry of national security said today. The spokesman said Novruzali Mamedov, the editor-in-chief of the Tolishi Sado newspaper that covers the Iranian community in Azerbaijan, and Elman Guliyev, another editor at the paper, had been detained but gave...

(February 20, 2007) — My suggestion for publishers, editors and news managers dealing daily with the cost-cutting that plagues newsrooms around the country is to fire someone. But don’t fire a reporter, copy editor, or a photog. What I’m proposing might not win me any friends at the major wire services. I’m certainly not going to win any popularity contests. But allow me to get a few points across...

Four newspapers have been crowned "World's Best Designed" by a panel of judges at the 28th annual The Best of Newspaper Design Creative Competition of the Society for News Design (SND). The winners are: Äripev (Tallinn, Estonia); El Economista (Madrid, Spain); Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung (Frankfurt, Germany); and Politiken (Copenhagen, Denmark) Meeting at Syracuse University in New York...

(February 20, 2007) -- My suggestion for publishers, editors and news managers dealing daily with the cost-cutting that plagues newsrooms around the country is to fire someone. But don't fire a reporter, copy editor, or a photog. What I'm proposing might not win me any friends at the major wire services. I'm certainly not going to win any popularity contests. But allow me to get a few points...

A local journalist has been killed by unknown armed men in Afghanistan's northwest Faryab province, said a local official Monday. "Two armed men riding a motorbike opened fire on Rahman Qul near his home in Ankhoi district Sunday afternoon and killed him on the spot," provincial governor Abdul Latif Ibrahimi told Xinhua. It is not clear if the attackers were militants and an investigation is...

News Corp. chief Rupert Murdoch has announced that he will launch the new Fox Business Channel (FBC) in the fall. The channel is marketing itself as being “more business-friendly” than its rivals. Nevermind that FBC’s main rival — CNBC — is dealing with allegations that its star network host had an inappropriate undisclosed relationship with a Citigroup executive. Fox wants to push the limits even...

(BIANET/IFEX) - 2006 turned out to be the year when both the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) and the main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) confirmed their support for restrictions on freedoms in Turkey. We witnessed huge and numerous problems regarding freedom of expression and the press, caused by the wording as well as the philosophy behind the legislation that those two...

The long-running libel case brought by an English journalist against six newspapers came to a dramatic and abrupt end at the High Court in Cork, Ireland, last week. Ian Bailey had claimed the newspapers had wrongly linked him to the 1996 murder of the French film producer Sophie Toscan du Plantier (above) in west Cork. Bailey’s libel action over newspaper coverage of the du Plantier murder, 10...