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London and Gland, Switzerland, 10 August 2006 (Reuters Foundation/IUCN) – Reuters Foundation and the World Conservation Union (IUCN) launch today the 2006 Media Awards, a worldwide competition aimed at raising global awareness of environmental and sustainable development issues, by encouraging excellence in environmental reporting worldwide. The Awards, established in 1998 by Reuters Foundation...

(MFWA/IFEX) - On 4 August 2006, the government of Niger threatened to revoke the licenses of some independent FM radio stations for what it described as "inciting civil war in the country." Prime Minister Hama Amadou, who issued the threat at a press conference in Niamey, failed to disclose the radio stations that would be affected. According to Media Foundation for West Africa (MFWA)-Niger...

(RSF/IFEX) - RSF strongly condemns the 9 August 2006 shooting attack by hooded gunmen on the Oaxaca-based daily "Noticias, Voz e Imagen de Oaxaca", in which two employees were seriously injured. The newspaper has been the target of threats and intimidation linked to its independent stance and criticism of this southern state's government since 2004. "We deplore the harassment and attacks on this...

(CPJ/IFEX) - New York, August 9, 2006 - The Committee to Protect Journalists welcomes reports that the U.S. military arrested four Iraqi men in the kidnapping of American freelance journalist Jill Carroll in Baghdad today. "In a time of increasing dangers to journalists in Iraq, it is certainly welcome news that these four individuals have been detained and will be held accountable for the...

(RSF/IFEX) - Reporters Without Borders has condemned the decision of the Pakistan Telecommunication Authority (PTA) on 26 July 2006 to add 34 new web addresses to the list of sites to which it blocks access. For the most part they were Baluch nationalist sites, online radio stations and sites relating to the Sindhi minority. "We deplore these latest filtering measures and we insist, yet again...

(Globe International/IFEX) - On 27 July 2006, Mr. M. Yadmaa, governor of Omnogovi province, ordered department heads not to give information to AltanGobi television while the TV cameraman, Mr M. Shinekhuu, was reporting on a meeting of the heads of the governor's departmental offices. On 26 July, AltanGobi television aired a programme covering the excessive increase in the price of meat and...

The broadsheet newspaper is as American as Patrick Henry's great speech and Irving Berlin's songs, and in fact going back into history, the width of the newpaper page was even broader. But how Americans partake of their information is changing, led by the internet, and one effect is that the traditional broadsheet is being trimmed and in many places replaced entirely by the smaller tabloid format...

New York, August 9, 2006 - The Committee to Protect Journalists condemns a murderous attack against the Kaieteur News printing plant that came amid a series of violent episodes in Georgetown, Guyana's capital, on Tuesday night. Masked assailants with automatic weapons killed four printing staff employees execution-style, the newspaper's owner told CPJ today. A fifth printing plant employee was...

(RSF/IFEX) - Reporters Without Borders has said it took note of a claim by the prosecutor general that former economic development minister Farkhad Aliev, who is being held on a charge of financing a coup attempt, was involved in the March 2005 murder of Elmar Huseynov, the editor of the "Monitor" opposition weekly. Prosecutor general Zakir Garalov told journalists on 8 August 2006 that evidence...

Reporters Without Borders today denounced India’s security services for their persecution of photojournalist Muhammad Maqbool Khokar (better known as Maqbool Sahil), who has been imprisoned since 18 September 2004 under an emergency security law, and called for the country’s journalists to campaign to free him. Requests by the Jammu and Kashmir High Court and the National Human Rights...