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The renewed fighting in Sri Lanka is taking its toll on the press too. This month alone a newspaper delivery agent was killed, a newspaper's office's searched by state security personnel, police bodyguards to an editor withdrawn, and the press virtually barred from reporting on the humanitarian crisis rising out of the conflict. There have been frantic calls to all to leave journalists alone...

There is still no sign of the two Fox News Channel journalists abducted in Gaza six days ago. No group has claimed responsibility for the abduction of the journalists from the US television network, and the kidnappers have made no demands yet. A FRANTIC PLEA: Anita McNaught holds a picture of her husband, Fox news cameraman Olaf Wiig, 36, of New Zealand, as she speaks during a demonstration called...

NEW YORK (AdAge.com) -- Digital properties may be VC darlings, hot on Wall Street and coveted by advertisers. But try telling that to Dave and Jean Bretzlauf, 57-year-old accountants in a well-to-do-suburb of Denver. Dave has an iPod but no idea what a podcast is. Neither is familiar with RSS. And while they read the online versions of their local papers, they also subscribe to Rocky Mountain News...

Maldivian journalist Jennifer Latheef who was serving a 10-year jail term for terrorism has been pardoned by the government. Latheef has, however, rejected the presidential pardon. ACCUSED OF TERRORISM: The Maldives government announced Jennifer Latheef’s release on August 16. She was jailed for 10 years in October 2005 after being convicted of inciting a riot in 2003. International human rights...

Media in Kashmir has come to stay as an instrument of shaping public opinion and as a potential influence on people’s precepts and practices. In the backdrop of the conflict that has dogged every aspect of life in Jammu and Kashmir in a muted way for the better part of the past century and significantly over the past one and a half decades, the media has played the role of a catalyst not so much...

(CPJ/IFEX) - New York, August 17, 2006 - The Committee to Protect Journalists today urged Mexican authorities to investigate the suspected involvement of Arturo Villarreal in the 2004 killing of a Tijuana newspaper editor. Villarreal was picked up as part of a drug sweep by U.S. security services on August 14. A Mexican prosecutor last year identified Villarreal, who is known by the nickname "El...

After nearly 50 years of publishing on a Monday morning, Time magazine will start appearing on newsstands Friday mornings at the beginning of next year, the biggest push so far by the newsweekly to make itself more competitive in a media industry dominated by the Web and 24-hour cable news. By hitting newsstands before the weekend, rather than at the start of the workweek, Time's publisher Time...

ROME -- A media watchdog group on Friday protested searches at two Italian newspaper offices in connection with the investigation into an alleged CIA kidnapping of an Egyptian cleric in Milan in 2003. Police last week searched the Milan and Rome offices of the daily La Repubblica and the offices of the Piccolo newspaper in Trieste, in northern Italy, Paris-based Reporters Without Borders said...

BAGHDAD -- Mohammed Shakir has been selling newspapers from his stall on the right bank of the Tigris River in Baghdad for 20 years. He used to offer a selection from all of Iraq's political movements and parties - but no more. In his majority Sunni neighborhood that has proved simply too dangerous. Two months ago a group of masked men showed up at his stall and ordered Shakir to stop selling...

The BBC's head of newsgathering has defended the corporation's coverage of the recent Middle East conflict, saying it was not considered necessary to precede its broadcasts with references to the censorship rules operated by both Israel and Hizbollah. Responding to criticism claiming that the BBC's coverage of the Lebanon conflict has been both too pro-Israeli and too pro-Hizbollah, Fran Unsworth...