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The Jayaraman family and the Network of Women in Media, India (NWMI) are collaborating in instituting the Anupama Jayaraman Memorial Award for young women journalists. The Award has been set up in the memory of Anupama Jayaraman, a young and promising Bangalore-based journalist who passed away in January 2006. Anupama was not only multi-talented and energetic, but she also demonstrated a keen...

Workshop for Journalists on Child Labour and Children and Media In conjunction with the 5th annual meeting of the Network of Women in Media, India Bangalore, 9-11 February 2007 Workshop dates: 12-15 February 2007 Deadline for registration: 15 January 2007 The workshop for journalists (male and female) will be designed and conducted by the Concerned for Working Children, Bangalore. The Concerned...

The International Women's Media Foundation (IWMF) is seeking nominations from around the world for its 2007 Courage in Journalism Awards and Lifetime Achievement Award. The Courage in Journalism Awards honor women working in the news media who have demonstrated extraordinary strength of character in pursuing their profession under difficult or dangerous circumstances. These women show a commitment...

New York, January 24, 2007—The Committee to Protect Journalists welcomes Chinese President Hu Jintao’s call for a swift and thorough investigation into the brutal beating of Zhongguo Maoyi Bao (China Trade News) journalist Lan Chengzhang at the site of an illegal mine in northern China’s Shanxi province. Lan died of a brain hemorrhage in Datong city hospital on January 10. Seven suspects have been...

(CJES/IFEX) - On 19 January 2007, in the city of Partizansk (Primorsky region), Tamara Golovanova, correspondent for the newspaper "Vesti", was badly beaten while on assignment. The editor-in-chief of the newspaper, Ms. Olga Aksakova, informed the Russian news agency RIA Novosti that the journalist was beaten in the offices of a public employment agency while investigating a collective complaint...

Journalists striving to expose the misuse of government power are increasingly living under the threat of politically motivated arrests, physical assault and even death, Amnesty International said today. The organization's report, Azerbaijan: the contracting space for freedom of expression, reveals a pattern of encroachment on the rights of members of civil society, and in particular journalists...

Rupert Murdoch's News Corporation has joined the Chandler family in its bid for Tribune Company, with an eye to taking a stake in New York's Newsday newspaper. Newsday, which is based in Long Island, is one of Tribune's largest newspapers, along with the Los Angeles Times and Chicago Tribune. The media group, which put itself up for sale in September, also includes 23 television stations and the...

BEIJING (AFP) - China's Internet population could overtake the United States as the world's largest within two years, but foreign dotcoms may have to wait much longer to profit from it, analysts say. While usage will pick up as computers get cheaper and the Internet becomes more attractive, local culture and habits constitute formidable barriers to entry for overseas businesses, they said. "I...

Some police officials in Chechnya are under criminal investigation for a possible role in the killing of Anna Politkovskaya, a prominent Russian journalist, a New York-based news media rights group said here on Tuesday. The assertion, by the Committee to Protect Journalists, cast fresh attention on the possibility of an official role in a crime that was roundly condemned in the West, and drew a...

(RSF/IFEX) - RSF today called on the federal authorities to relaunch the investigation into the April 2005 disappearance of journalist Alfredo Jiménez Mota of the daily "El Imparcial" in Hermosillo, in the northwestern state of Sonora, after a municipal police officer, Lt. Jesús Francisco Ayala Valenzuela, told the National Commission for Human Rights (Comisión Nacional de Derechos Humanos, CNDH)...