News

A court in Riga awarded a top Latvian journalist over $185,000 in damages Friday after recordings of her telephone calls were leaked to the media. Ilze Jaunalksne, presenter of Latvian TV's top current-affairs programme, De Facto, was awarded 100,000 lats ($185,185) in moral damages and 243 lats in expenses from the finance ministry and inland revenue department. Jaunalksne's mobile phone was...

LONDON - The Independent and Independent on Sunday bounced back from a bad December with 10.4% and 24.6% monthly circulation increases respectively in January, according to the latest national newspaper ABC figures. Every paper enjoyed the traditional increase in sales from December to January, with the exception of the Daily Express and the People. The daily newspaper market consisted of 11,957...

Ifra’s editors have launched a seven-part “Future Press” series in ‘newspaper techniques’ magazine examining the technology’s latest developments. The series, which starts this month with a detailed report on the prospects for digital newspaper presses, anticipates the continued essential role of presses and printing in the production of paged media in general and newspapers in particular, Twenty...

NEW YORK — Rupert Murdoch has proved naysayers wrong more than once — and could be in a position to do so again. The News Corp. chairman on Thursday announced the long-awaited launch of a business channel that will compete with CNBC for the small but lucrative audience interested in financial news. The Fox Business Channel, in the works for at least two years, will be overseen by Roger Ailes, the...

New York, February 9, 2007— The Committee to Protect Journalists deplores the reported death of prominent, award-winning journalist Fesshaye Yohannes, imprisoned without charges in September 2001, along with the majority of Eritrea’s independent press corps. Yohannes, founding editor of the defunct weekly Setit and a recipient of CPJ’s International Press Freedom Award in 2002, died in a prison...

He was known as the father of modern newspaper design. He helped redesign thousands of newspapers, wrote 27 journalism books and won numerous awards. But toward the end of his life, Edmund Arnold took simple pleasure in creating birthday cards for his fellow residents of Brandon Oaks Retirement Community. Arnold died Friday at Lewis-Gale Medical Center. He was 93. Arnold began his newspaper career...

Kuala Lumpur - A Malaysian court sentenced an Australian journalist to 10 months' jail after he pleaded guilty to changing price tags on clothes that he bought at a shopping centre in the capital Kuala Lumpur city, news reports said Friday. However, John Leslie Lefevre was allowed to walk free as the judge ordered his jail sentence to run from the date of his arrest on March 29 last year. Lefevre...

There is a rising tide of harassment of journalists and women’s rights activists in Iran by security officials. The most recent and shocking incident occurred on January 26 this year when 15 women journalists were detained for questioning by Ministry of Intelligence officials as they were about to fly out from Tehran to attend an educational workshop on journalism in India. The workshop was...

A Swiss military court has indicted three Swiss journalists working for the weekly SonntagsBlick for publishing a leaked document last year “dealing with supposed places of detention and interrogation methods used by the US foreign intelligence service (CIA).” The SonntagsBlick scoop came just three days after European human rights watchdog, Council of Europe, launched an investigation into a...

The UN war crimes tribunal on Wednesday sentenced a Croatian journalist to three months in prison after finding him guilty of contempt for revealing the the names and personal details of confidential witnesses who had testified in one of its cases. Croatian journalist Domagoj Margetic awaits the verdict of his case at the Yugoslav war crimes tribunal (ICTY) in The Hague, Netherlands, February 7...