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(RSF/IFEX) - Reporters Without Borders has criticised the Tunisian authorities for expelling French journalist Léa Labaye, of the satirical website http://www.Bakchich.info, who was sent back to Paris immediately after arrival in Tunisia on 16 September 2006, without any official explanation. "This expulsion demonstrates once again that journalists who criticise President Ben Ali are not welcome...

BANGALORE: Terming the Government's proposed legislative initiatives against the media ``undemocratic, " Indian Newspaper Society's outgoing president Jacob Mathew on Monday said a threat to the freedom of the media was a serious threat to the country's economic viability. Addressing the 67th Annual General Meeting of the society here, he said the new initiatives were a threat to the media's...

6 week course from May 14th - June 22nd, 2007 Course Aims The course aims to strengthen the capacity of broadcast and print journalists and of the organisations they work for to use the Internet for the purposes of research, publication and distribution. The many 'faces' of internet The Internet is an exciting new medium for journalists and media organisations. Journalists can find a wealth of...

Tribune Co., already under pressure from its largest shareholder, the Chandler family, is facing a growing challenge on another front: a push by some rich and powerful citizens in Los Angeles for a sale of the Los Angeles Times to local interests. The clamor over the nation's fourth-largest newspaper comes ahead of a Tribune board meeting Thursday, at which Chief Executive Officer Dennis...

The Pentagon said on Monday that an Iraqi photographer working for The Associated Press and held by the U.S. military since April was considered a security threat with “strong ties to known insurgents.” Pentagon spokesman Bryan Whitman said there was sufficient evidence to justify the continued detention of Bilal Hussein, 35, who AP said was taken into U.S. military custody on April 12 in the...

In this astonishing confessional by an Oxford graduate who worked in the green zone of Baghdad, we see the perversity of the American version of a 'free press' in Iraq. Last spring, during my final semester at Oxford, a cousin wrote to tell me that she was planning to work for an American company in Iraq over the summer. She suggested I join her. The company was called Iraqex, and it claimed on...

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - A Belgian court has ordered Google Inc. to stop reproducing articles from French-speaking newspapers in the news section of one of its Belgian websites, a local press organisation said. The complaint against the world's most popular Internet search engine was lodged by Copiepresse, an organisation which manages copyright for the Belgian French and German-speaking press. The...

Bangalore, Sept. 18 (PTI): The Indian Newspaper Society's outgoing President Jacob Mathew today expressed concern over the government's media policy in view of some provisions of the draft Broadcast Services Regulation Bill, 2006, including the proposed restrictions on cross-media holdings. The draft bill envisages the creation of a Broadcast Regulatory Authority empowered to administer a content...

(IAPA/IFEX) - MIAMI, Florida (September 18, 2006) - The Inter American Press Association (IAPA) today protested attacks on employees at the La Razón newspaper in Bolivia by street newsvendors who are boycotting distribution and sales of the paper. The free-press organization joined a demand for official action to ensure full and unfettered circulation of the paper. On Sunday (September 17), some...

PARIS — The end could be near for Libération, the newspaper founded by the philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre and members of the extreme political left. After years of falling readership and advertising, the paper’s largest shareholder, Edouard de Rothschild, has stopped paying operating costs and, according to Pierre Haski, deputy editor of the newspaper, salaries have been frozen for October. “On Sept...