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PARIS: Reporters Without Borders awarded its top media freedom prizes Tuesday to a journalists from Myanmar and Cuba, a Russian newspaper and an association of reporters from Congo. The Paris-based media advocacy group issues the annual prizes jointly with the Fondation de France, a private foundation. The awards go to a journalist, a media outlet, a defender of press freedoms and a "cyber...

Mike Allen, a reporter who covers the White House for Time magazine, and Roger Simon, the chief political correspondent for Bloomberg News, are joining the new multimedia political news venture being overseen by two former Washington Post journalists. That new enterprise now has a name — The Politico, which is its newspaper, and thepolitico.com, its Web site. The name supplants The Capitol Leader...

New Delhi, December 12: The Supreme Court on Tuesday dismissed a Public Interest Litigation (PIL), which sought a ban on the publication of obscene and nude photographs in newspapers of the country. A bench headed by Justice A R Laxman, however, directed the Union Government to consider suggestions made by Press Council of India for bringing certain regulation in the publication of such...

(HRW/IFEX) - (New York, December 12, 2006) - The Iranian Judiciary should prosecute officials responsible for the arbitrary detention and alleged torture of several bloggers in 2004, instead of prosecuting the bloggers for expressing their opinions, Human Rights Watch said today. On December 3, branch 1059 of Tehran's Judiciary commenced a trial against four men, Roozbeh Mirebrahimi, Shahram...

The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) is angered by the failure of Indian police to ensure journalists’ safety, after three journalists were injured in West Bengal on December 8 when police resorted to a lathi (baton) charge during a protest. The Indian Journalists’ Union (IJU), an IFJ affiliate, reported that the journalists, who were reporting on the protest, were hurt when...

MEXICO CITY: A month ago, the death of Bradley Will seemed cut and dried. The independent New York City journalist was shot in the chest while videotaping a lopsided confrontation between gunmen who supported the beleaguered governor of Oaxaca and protesters demanding his ouster. Pictures of some of the gunmen, with their names, had appeared on the front pages of all the major papers. The two...

New York, December 11, 2006—The Committee to Protect Journalists is dismayed that a year after the assassination of leading Lebanese journalist Gebran Tueni in Beirut, the perpetrators remain at large. On December 12, 2005, Tueni, managing director and columnist for the leading daily Al-Nahar, was killed by a bomb that targeted his armored vehicle in east Beirut. Tueni was also a member of...

Reporters Without Borders expressed huge relief at the early release of journalist Gao Qinrong, who was sentenced to 13 years in prison in 1999 for exposing a corruption scandal implicating top provincial officials. Gao, who worked for the official Xinhua news agency, was arrested on 4 December 1998 after writing about corruption linked to an irrigation project in Shanxi province in central China...

Reporters Without Borders expressed outrage at the death of a radio presenter who has been murdered in the north of the country, bringing to 11 the number of journalists and media workers killed in the Philippines in 2006. “The death of Ponciano Grande, 53, tragically confirms that the wave of murders of journalists and political activists has still not been halted,” the worldwide press freedom...

Since 1975, Worldpress.org has presented the International Editor of the Year Award to an editor or editors outside the United States whose work best exemplifies the principles of journalism. In recognition of enterprise, courage and leadership in advancing the freedom and responsibility of the press, enhancing human rights and fostering excellence in journalism, our 2005-2006 choice honors three...