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MUMBAI, AUGUST 17: Newspaper publisher Jagran Prakashan Ltd. said on Thursday Ireland's Independent News & Media Plc. has approached the Indian market regulator to up its stake in the Indian firm by up to 3 per cent. The application to the regulator to buy 1 to 3 per cent in the Indian firm from the open market was made by Independent News & Media Investments Ltd., a wholly owned unit of the Irish...

Nielsen/NetRatings' list of the "Top Ten Fastest Growing Web Brands" in the U.S., released last week, contains plenty of the usual suspects--that is, companies that barely existed a year ago but now draw millions of eyeballs a month. Yahoo!'s (nasdaq: YHOO - news - people ) Flickr? Check. PartyPoker? Sure. News Corp.'s (nyse: NWS - news - people ) MySpace? Of course. Then there's the Associated...

Reporters Without Borders voiced dismay today at the threats that O Dia reporter Maria Mazzei and her family have been receiving since 15 August as a result of her reports about the trafficking in human bodies in Rio de Janeiro, and her claim that employees of the Medical Forensic Institute (IML) were selling cadavers to the so-called “Máfia dos Corpos” (Body Mafia). “We are deeply disturbed by...

It was May 2001 when President Islam Karimov proclaimed the “era of the internet” in Uzbekistan. Five years on, however, the picture is grim. In the wake of the Andijan massacre, Uzbekistan is more closed off than ever and the government has taken almost total control of the country’s last source of independent information - the internet. All sites which criticise Uzbekistan have been blocked...

(CPJ/IFEX) - August 16, 2006 - The Committee to Protect Journalists condemns an attack on Igor Mosiichuk, editor-in-chief of the independent Ukrainian weekly Vecherny Vasilkov, which follows a series of articles he published on local land deals and a controversial oil tank farm. Two unidentified assailants beat Mosiichuk August 14 in a street in Vasilkov, 23 miles (37 kilometers) southwest of the...

Analysts warned last night that there could be a "bloodbath" in the London newspaper market after the announcement that another free daily would muscle in on a crowded market next month. Associated Newspapers said it would start a free afternoon paper, London Lite, in September and scrap its Standard Lite freesheet. The new title would go head-to-head with News International's forthcoming free...

A Dhaka court yesterday framed charges against 10 people accused in the journalist Gautam Das murder case. Faridpur bureau chief of Dainik Samakal Gautam Das, 30, was brutally killed on November 17 last year. Judge Shahed Noor Uddin of the Speedy Trial Tribunal-1 framed the charges where six out of the 10 accused were present. He fixed August 22 for trial of the case. The charge-sheeted accused...

Hong Kong --- Amid mounting concern that the Internet might make newspapers obsolete, Chinese propaganda officials and editors of leading dailies are drafting a five-year plan to provide direction for the industry. Newspaper circulation and advertising revenues have been falling in China, as they face increasing competition from the Internet and other new media for advertising dollar, according to...

Accra, Aug. 16, GNA -- A photojournalist was on Wednesday attacked at the 24th February Road Courts by people suspected to be sympathisers of Tibu-Darko, who was picked up by the security agencies for allegedly dealing in narcotic drugs. The Photojournalist, Mr Ebo Hanson, who works with the 93Daily Graphic=94, was in the line of duty trying to take photographs of the accused person when a group...

(IPYS/IFEX) - On the evening of 4 August 2006, Judge Paulo Sérgio Romero Vicente Rodrigues, of the Fourth Civil Tribunal of the city of São José do Rio Preto, forbade the newspaper "Bom Dia" to report on a case of international medicine trafficking uncovered in the city, basing his decision on the confidentiality of the legal investigation into the case. The judge's ruling was in response to a...