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GUATEMALA CITY (Reuters) - A Guatemalan radio reporter and human rights activist was found shot to death in his car on Sunday, police said, the latest in a wave of attacks and death threats against journalists in the country. Eduardo Maas, 58, was found dead from multiple gunshot wounds in the central town of Coban, said local police investigating his murder. During the Central American country's...

There are anniversaries sure to bring complaints from readers if the newspaper doesn't show deference with some coverage: Pearl Harbor Day, VE Day, D-Day and many others. The voices on the phone line, shaking with anger if they don't see the coverage they expected, often sound elderly. When the pivotal events that altered their lives are missed or downplayed by the newspaper, it's personal. I've...

It was bollywood’s worst kept secret. The shocker ending of Rakeysh Mehra’s Rang De Basanti was kept under wraps till its premiere. But Mehra bent the rules for NDTV. So keen was the filmmaker to involve the news channel in his youth anthem that he dared to bare his script to the channel executives even before he commenced shooting. In return, NDTV granted Mehra dollops of sacred air time to put...

WHEN Russia’s most wanted terrorist was killed two months ago, Elina Ersenoyeva, a young Chechen journalist, could not hide her relief. At last she felt it was safe to tell her mother that seven months earlier she had been secretly forced to marry Shamil Basayev, the man behind the Beslan school massacre and a string of other bloody attacks. With her husband dead her double life had come to an end...

The young editor of an Armenian newspaper critical of the government was found guilty of illegally avoiding military service and sentenced to four years in prison by a Yerevan court on Friday. The court backed prosecutors’ claim that Arman Babajanian of “Zhamanak Yerevan” used fake documents to win exemption from the two-year compulsory duty in 2002. But the presiding judge, Mnatsakan Martirosian...

MIAMI - Ten South Florida journalists, including three with The Miami Herald's Spanish-language sister paper, received thousands of dollars from the federal government for their work on radio and TV programming aimed at undermining Fidel Castro's communist regime, the Herald reported Friday. Pablo Alfonso, who reports on Cuba and wrote an opinion column for El Nuevo Herald, was paid almost $175...

KHARTOUM (Reuters) - Sudan authorities confiscated all copies of the independent al-Sudani newspaper on Saturday, the latest move in a resurgence of censorship since the beheading of a journalist last week. Mohamed Taha, editor of al-Wifaq newspaper was seized from his home and his decapitated body dumped in a dirt street on Wednesday. Since then, censors have moved into newspapers to restrict the...

A series of videos showing a 16-year-old girl opining about life, relationships, planets, cookies and religion from the orderly confines of her bedroom somewhere in smalltown America has become the pop culture hit of the summer. The short video blog postings by lonelygirl15 on the YouTube website have attracted millions of viewers since they started appearing in May. But the postings' polished...

An editorial in Monday’s Australian entitled “Endgame for Iran” is another sign that the vast resources of the Murdoch global media empire are being mobilised to support a new US war of aggression against Iran. A similar editorial headed “A nuclear Iran is not an option” appeared in the same newspaper last week, along with an opinion piece in the London-based Times entitled “What a shambles over...

Kuala Lumpur: Journalists should not regard the proposed National Media Council as an attempt by the Government to curb their freedom but, instead, accept the idea as a means to protect them, Information Minister Datuk Zainuddin Maidin said. He said the media council would not be controlled by the Government but operating like independent bodies that had been formed by the Government such as the...