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(RSF/IFEX) - Reporters Without Borders has voiced concern about a bill currently being discussed by the Parliamentary Assembly of Northern Ireland. The draft "Policing - Miscellaneous Provisions (Northern Ireland) Order 2007" would extend the powers of the police to search and seize documents. The organisation wrote on 18 January 2007 to Northern Ireland Secretary Peter Hain warning him about the...

(IAPA/IFEX) - MIAMI, Florida (January 19, 2007) - The Inter American Press Association (IAPA) submits today to the Washington, D.C.-based Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) the results of its investigation into the April 26, 1991 murder of journalist Santiago Leguizamón in Paraguay. Leguizamón was the host of the morning radio program "Puertas Abiertas" (Open Doors) broadcast by...

I want to share a story. I wonder how many know the name, Abeer Qassim Hamza al-Janabi. How many know who she was? Abeer was a 14-old-girl, living with her family about 50 miles south of Baghdad, trying to grow up as best she could in a country ravaged by violence and war. Until March 12, 2006, when her life was cruelly cut short. On that night, five American soldiers, dressed all in black...

BRUSSELS, (AFP) - After taking action against Microsoft and Google, Belgium's French-speaking newspapers are seeking redress from another Internet search engine, Yahoo, their lawyer has said. "We sent a letter of formal notice to Yahoo yesterday" so that it will stop publishing articles from Belgian newspapers on its search engine without prior authorisation, said Bernard Magrez, lawyer for the...

WASHINGTON -- Columnist and author Art Buchwald, who for over four decades chronicled the life and times of Washington with an infectious wit and endeared himself to many with his never-say-die battle with failing kidneys, is dead at 81. Buchwald's son, Joel, who was with his father, disclosed the satirist's death, saying he had passed away quietly at his home late Wednesday with his family...

LONDON (Reuters) - Reuters named a new chief photographer for the Middle East on Thursday and said it had tightened its editing procedures after the publication last year of two photographs that had been digitally altered. The measures were among several steps announced by David Schlesinger, editor-in-chief of the global news and information agency, following an internal investigation that he said...

NEW YORK, Jan 18 (Reuters) - Time Inc., the top U.S. magazine publisher, will cut 289 jobs from its estimated 11,300 workforce to slash costs as it invests more heavily in Internet properties, the company said on Thursday. The Time Warner Inc. (TWX.N: Quote, Profile, Research) division, which owns properties including Time and People magazines, will cut 117 business jobs and 172 editorial jobs, a...

Reporters Without Borders voiced dismay on learning that Aboubakr Jamaï was forced to resign today as managing editor of the Casablanca-based weekly Journal Hebdomadaire in a move that confirms a significant decline in the level of press freedom in Morocco. “For those who follow the Moroccan media closely, Jamaï’s departure is a significant loss and marks the end of an era in which, despite the...

New York, January 18, 2007—The Committee to Protect Journalists welcomed the public disclosure today that leading Internet companies are in talks with human rights organizations, including CPJ, investors, and legal experts to draw up a code of conduct for technology companies that would safeguard the right to free expression and privacy of Web users. The talks began last year but were not...

(PPF/IFEX) - The Council of Pakistan Newspaper Editors (CPNE) has condemned the government's decision to stop advertising in the daily "Dawn", the country's largest circulation English-language newspaper. An emergency session of the CPNE on 16 January 2007 rejected use of advertisements as a pressure tactic to seek changes in the editorial policies of the newspaper. The CPNE members said the use...