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(CPJ/IFEX) - New York, December 4, 2006 - Unidentified gunmen killed Nabil Ibrahim al-Dulaimi, 36, a news editor for the privately-owned station Radio Dijla, shortly after he left his home in Baghdad's al-Washash neighborhood for work today, sources at the station told the Committee to Protect Journalists. "We offer our condolences to the family of Nabil Ibrahim al-Dulaimi," said CPJ Executive...

(IFJ/IFEX) - The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) today called for the immediate and unconditional release of journalist Abdiaziz Mohamud Guled, who is being held by the authorities in the semi-autonomous state of Puntland, Somalia, on claims he aired reports allegedly supporting the Islamic Courts. Guled, a stringer for the Mogadishu-based radio station Simba, was arrested in the...

(WAN/IFEX) - Paris, 4 December 2006: The World Association of Newspapers has welcomed today's decision by a Danish court to acquit three journalists accused of illegally publishing intelligence secrets in newspaper reports about Denmark's decision to go to war in Iraq. "This verdict is a victory for press freedom, for the public interest and for the media's role as watchdog over governments and...

Ever since newspapers came in vogue under British rule, the media has played an important role in Indian affairs. The Bombay Chronicle, the Free Press Journal, and many other newspapers and magazines were important elements in the movement for Indian independence. Gandhiji used the print medium to convey his views on important matters of the day as well as on many others in which he took interest...

NEW DELHI (AFP) - The news media may be in decline in the West but it's boom time in India where journalists are hopscotching from one job to another, picking up fatter pay checks on the way. Indian media managers say they are scrambling to recruit staff amid a rush of new publications and television stations. Talk among journalists of 40 to 50 percent pay hikes for switching jobs is becoming the...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Yahoo Inc., in partnership with Reuters, is inviting the public to contribute eyewitness photos and videos of news events, in the latest move to turn spectators into on-the-spot journalists. The Internet media company said it has created a news contribution system called "You Witness" and is working with news and information company Reuters Group Plc, which will edit and...

(IFJ/IFEX) - The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) today called on the Mexican government to step up its actions to protect journalists after reports that a missing journalist had been found dead in Veracruz only days after another journalist was killed in the region's other media hotspot, Colombia. "These latest killings once again push Latin America into the ranks of the world's most...

(CPJ/IFEX) - New York, December 4, 2006 - The Committee to Protect Journalists renewed its appeal to Mexican federal authorities today to take over the investigation into the killing of U.S. journalist Bradley Roland Will after two local officials suspected in his shooting were freed. Will, 36, an independent documentary filmmaker and reporter for the news Web site Indymedia, was killed covering...

CNN-IBN chief editor Rajdeep Sardesai was let off without having to appear in Vidhan Sabha for breach of privilege in the ‘Neta Bikta Hai’ sting operation case. The House had earlier resolved that Sardesai should be produced before it in police custody. An inquiry committee of Vidhan Sabha in its interim report had held Sardesai responsible for obstructing its functioning and committing breach of...

New York, December 4, 2006—Unidentified gunmen killed Nabil Ibrahim al-Dulaimi, 36, a news editor for the privately-owned station Radio Dijla, shortly after he left his home in Baghdad’s al-Washash neighborhood for work today, sources at the station told the Committee to Protect Journalists. “We offer our condolences to the family of Nabil Ibrahim al-Dulaimi,” said CPJ Executive Director Joel...