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Suspended IPS officer and the main accused on journalist Shivani Bhatnagar murder case, R K Sharma, on Tuesday claimed that the deceased scribe knew several top BJP leaders. He, however, downplayed his alleged intimate relationship with the Indian Express journalist, CNN-IBN has reported. Details: Hours after the Supreme Court rejected his plea, seeking certain ’statements’ recorded by the...

NEW YORK: The New York Times Co. and Monster Worldwide Inc., the Internet job search firm, today announced an alliance aimed at expanding their shares of the help-wanted classified market. "The combination of technology, reach and expertise created by this strategic alliance is extraordinary," said Janet L. Robinson, chief executive officer, The New York Times Company, in a statement. "Together...

New York, February 14, 2007—The Committee to Protect Journalists is deeply concerned by the recent detention of two Sudanese editors and the temporary closure of their newspaper after they interviewed religious militants last week. At around midnight on February 7, a Sudanese security officer visited the home of Adil Sid Ahmed, deputy editor-in-chief of the Arabic-language daily Al-Watan, in the...

(SomaliNet) The Kenyan High Court yesterday rejected a requirement by the Government that broadcasting houses seek State approval before airing some of their programmes. The landmark verdict was delivered in a case filed six years ago in the Constitutional Court by Nation Media Group, challenging the directive issued by the minister for Information, Transport and Communication at the time. The...

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russia's richest woman, who is also the wife of Moscow's mayor, is suing the Russian edition of Forbes magazine for defamation over a story detailing her business interests, her company said on Wednesday. A spokesman for Yelena Baturina's Inteko firm said it had filed a suit against the magazine and its editor in Russian courts seeking compensation totalling 213,000 roubles ($8...

NEW YORK A U.S. judge has stopped further disclosure of confidential documents that became the basis for a series of critical stories in The New York Times last year about the antipyschotic drug Zyprexa. Ruling Tuesday in federal court, U.S. District Judge Jack B. Weinstein found that Times reporter Alex Berenson conspired with a lawyer, James Gottstein, to obtain and illegally distribute the...

Newspaper giant Gannett Co. on Tuesday purchased Central Florida Future, the University of Central Florida's independent student newspaper. The company's Central Florida unit, Florida Today/Cape Publishing, paid an undisclosed amount for the Future, a free paper published three times a week during the academic year. It also bought the Seminole Chronicle, a weekly circulated in Oviedo and Winter...

WASHINGTON — New York Times managing editor Jill Abramson testified briefly in the CIA leak trial today as defense attorneys tried to undercut the credibility of another witness, former Times reporter Judith Miller. Abramson was the Washington bureau chief in 2003 when Miller says White House aide I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby told her that the wife of a former ambassador and prominent war critic...

New York, February 13, 2007—The Committee to Protect Journalists is alarmed by the January 22 detention of an independent journalist and human rights researcher in Tashkent. Umida Niyazova covered politics and human rights in Uzbekistan for the Central Asia news Web site Oasis, a project of the Moscow-based media watchdog Center for Journalism in Extreme Situations. She also contributed to Human...

The gruesome murder of the Ashanti Regional Chairman of the Ghana Journalists Association, Samuel Ennin last Friday in Kumasi has sent a wave of fear and panic among media practitioners in the Ashanti Regional capital. Even though the security agencies are yet to make any arrests or establish the motive for the bizarre killing of the Ashanti Regional Chairman of the GJA, political reasons are not...