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NEW DELHI: The Government would hold a meeting with stakeholders on the proposed legislation to regulate the broadcasting media before going to the Cabinet, Union Information and Broadcasting Minister Priyaranjan Dasmunsi told the Lok Sabha here on Monday. Terming as "uncalled for" the apprehensions that the fundamental rights of the media would be encroached upon, he said the legislation was...

M ubarak Defends Freedom of Opinion and Expression! A Victory for Freedom of the Press! The Press Decides the First Round — and The Fight Will Continue! Mubarak Delivers on his Promise and Sides with Freedom of the Press and Democracy! So screamed most Egyptian newspapers — state-owned, independent and opposition alike — a day after the People’s Assembly passed amendments to the criminal code...

CALL centre and technology jobs have been the main target of offshoring to low-cost operations in places such as India and the Philippines, but journalism is in the sights of one of India's largest offshorers. Satyam Computer Services, the $US1.39 billion ($1.81 billion) software development firm that counts among its clients Coles Myer, Woolworths, AMP and Mayne Logistics, is planning to build up...

NAJAF, Iraq - The Baghdad correspondent of the Iranian government-run Al-Alam television station was assassinated in the western part of Baghdad, one of his colleagues said Tuesday. Adil al-Mansuri, an Iraqi who was in his 20s, was driving his car after dropping his wife at her family's home in Amiriyah when gunmen stopped him Monday and shot him dead, said Aysar al-Yasiri, the network's...

(EOHR/IFEX) - On 12 July 2006, the Egyptian Organization For Human Rights (EOHR) issued its report on freedom of the press, entitled " Journalism In Egypt: Caught Between Laws And the Government". This report was prepared as part of an EOHR campaign calling for the removal of all restrictions to freedom of expression and opinion. The report discuses EOHR's perspective on the draft law which the...

MANILA • Gunmen killed a tabloid newspaper photographer and two left-wing activists in three separate shootings in the Philippines, the national police said yesterday. Nearly 1,000 leftist activists, community organisers, lawyers and journalists have either gone missing or been murdered since President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo came to power in 2001 and her government has been criticised for failing...

TOTAL newspaper readership in Australia has declined by just 0.8 per cent in the past 12 months despite intensifying competition from other media. News Limited, publisher of about 70 per cent of the nation's newspapers, said the decline appeared mainly due to readers shifting from printed newspapers to websites. News chairman and chief executive John Hartigan said: "Despite often quoted concerns...

(IPYS/IFEX) - On 18 July 2006, journalist José Ursílio, editor-in-chief of the "Diario de Marília" newspaper, was the intended target of an assassination attempt, by a contract killer who confused him with another newspaper employee. The attack took place at the entrance to the newspaper's headquarters, in Marília, São Paulo district. Contract killer Evandro Quina shot at Almir Adauto, a driver...

The Internet is becoming a cesspool of plagiarism. Steve McKee, a partner at Albuquerque advertising agency McKee Wallwork Cleveland, found that out in June after he wrote his monthly column for BusinessWeek.com. The column, entitled "Five Words Never to Use in an Ad," was one of his more popular pieces. A search revealed that 36 blogs had picked it up and posted it to their sites, something that...

On March 1st, Wikipedia, the online interactive encyclopedia, hit the million-articles mark, with an entry on Jordanhill, a railway station in suburban Glasgow. Its author, Ewan MacDonald, posted a single sentence about the station at 11 P.M., local time; over the next twenty-four hours, the entry was edited more than four hundred times, by dozens of people. (Jordanhill happens to be the “1029th...