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The Committee to Protect Journalists recently released its 2006 report on threats to journalists. Iraq is by far the deadliest place for the fourth year in a row, with 32 journalists killed this year. Sad to say, the violence follows a trend that started with the U.S. invasion of Iraq. When you step off the elevator at the Reuters news offices in Washington, D.C., you see a large book sitting on a...

For some of the nation's newspapers, Google's offer was too good to pass up. This fall, the search-engine company proposed to show how it could help newspapers sell print advertising to the hundreds of thousands of small merchants who buy Internet ads from Google. Advertisers would go online and bid on the excess ad inventory of daily newspapers, giving them a much-needed revenue boost. Now, two...

MUMBAI (Reuters) - The roll-out of a long-delayed pay television system in three of India's main cities on Monday will offer some relief to broadcasters dependent on cable operators, but strict regulation will crimp near-term profits. India's fragmented $3.6 billion TV industry has more than 20,000 cable operators who, analysts and broadcasters say, under-declare subscriber numbers, charge random...

SAS Nagar, December 27: Mohali Police today finally withdrew the false criminal case registered against senior photo journalist of Hindustan Times, Samuel N Dass, after finding that the allegations in the complaint lodged by two policemen were not based on facts. In addition to this, the two Punjab Police personnel, Head Constable Hardarshan Singh and Constable Harjinder Singh, were found not...

New York, December 27, 2006—The Committee to Protect Journalists is deeply concerned by the criminal convictions on Tuesday of two Sudanese journalists in connection with a column critical of government perks. A criminal court in the capital, Khartoum, ordered Zuhayr al-Sarraj, former columnist for the private daily Al-Sahafa, to pay a fine of 5 million Sudanese pounds (US$2,500) or spend one year...

New York, December 26, 2006—Four unidentified men severely beat Nijat Huseynov, a reporter for the Baku-based opposition daily Azadlyg, on Monday morning, according to local and international press reports. Huseynov told the Turan news agency that he had received anonymous threatening phone calls recently. The callers made reference to Huseynov's work but did not cite a particular article, he told...

Tamil Nadu's politics of television channels is now rubbing off on neighbouring Andhra Pradesh. The YS Rajasekhara Reddy-led Congress government in the state is at loggerheads with the state's largest media group Eenadu, accused of being the mouthpiece of the opposition Telugu Desam. The latest salvo: state sanction for legal action against Rao and Eenadu Daily for an article against Home Minister...

(IAPA/IFEX) - MIAMI, Florida (December 26) - In a further move in its hemisphere-wide campaign aimed at creating awareness of the impunity surrounding the murder of journalists and bringing the culprits to justice, the Inter American Press Association (IAPA) today called on Colombia's President Alvaro Uribe to act to have the investigation into the death of journalist Jairo Elías Márquez speeded...

NEW DELHI: Even amid growing concern over cyber security, hacker groups defaced at least 340 Indian websites during November 2006, up from 244 sites targeted during last month. This takes the total number of Indian sites (government and non-government), that came under attack by hackers in the first nine months of the year, to over 4,000. Almost half of the websites targeted during November were...

More than 100,000 glossy magazines consigned to the shredder, an editor who says he had no other choice but to resign "in disgust", and one of the publishing world's most famous names scrambling to protect its reputation. And all to appease Russia's richest woman. As media scandals go, the latest brouhaha to hit the Russian edition of Forbes, the capitalist's bible, has it all and if the world...