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Twenty-five Islamic publications in the Arab world have established a new cooperative network, Al-Jazeera reported. The newly-launched Association of the Islamic Press includes periodicals and newspapers in 12 Middle Eastern and North African countries. Its stated aims are to develop more professional journalism among Islamic publications, and to share expertise among its members. According to an...

New York, July 14, 2006—The Committee to Protect Journalists expresses its grave concern about a lawsuit filed by the Cambodian government against Dam Sithek, publisher of the Khmer-language Moneakseka newspaper, for allegedly publishing false information. Deputy Prime Minister Sok An filed the charges through a government lawyer earlier this week over a June 13 article that accused the government...

Reporters Without Borders expressed shock and dismay after Vladimir Lutiev, editor of the weekly Evpatoriskaya Nedelia, was sentenced to eight years in prison by the Sebastopol appeal court in the autonomous republic of Crimea, according to a press-release, forwarded to UNIAN by the Reporters Without Borders. He had been held in custody since 30 June 2005 on the basis of a charge of attempted...

(RSF/IFEX) - A year after "Le Matin" journalist Jacques Roche was kidnapped in Port-au-Prince on 10 July 2005 and was found dead four days later, Reporters Without Borders has voiced anger and bitterness that the investigation has ground to a halt and the suspects who were arrested have not been brought to trial. "Roche's death showed to what degree the militias in the pay of the former regime of...

(SEAPA/IFEX) - Burma's new monthly magazine, "New Spectator", has been forced to cancel its July 2006 issue after heavy censorship stripped it of four lead articles. "New Spectator" publisher Ko Aung told Mizzima.com, a Delhi-based Burmese online news organization, that the four articles rejected by the Press Scrutiny and Registration Division included a cover story titled "Prospects for our...

NEW DELHI: Imagine a law where no single company can sell more than one variant of a soap brand or any other product or service. Since most marketers like to sell to a majority, all that consumers have, is duplication of the same variant, albeit with different brand names from different marketers. Moreover, no one company can sell its one soap brand variant across the country in keeping with the...

OTTAWA, July 14 (Reuters) - Canadian regulators' reviews of a proposed mega-merger in broadcasting will focus on how it affects advertising markets and whether the new company will reflect a diversity of news and opinion, officials said on Friday. Bell Globemedia Inc. agreed on Wednesday to a friendly C$1.7 billion ($1.5 billion) takeover of radio and television group CHUM Ltd. (CHM.TO: Quote...

LOS ANGELES (AP) - Santa Barbara News-Press owner Wendy McCaw told readers Thursday that the resignations of nearly all her top editors were prompted by her unwillingness to let them ``flavor the news with their personal opinions.'' The editors quit last week, citing meddling in news coverage by McCaw and her team. In a ``note to readers,'' McCaw said the editors - not her - were the problem. `...

The Zee group has been denied a toehold in the Hindi newspaper market as the battle for control over Hindi daily Amar Ujala’s parent company has gone in favour of the principal shareholder group led by Atul Maheshwari. Company Law Board (CLB) Chairman S Balasubramanian on 11 July passed an order, which directed the Atul Maheshwari group to buy out the 35.33 per cent equity in Amar Ujala...

NEW YORK: When Publisher Arthur Sulzberger Jr. first raised the question of a job change for Gail Collins in 2001, she was afraid he was going to fire her. "I was at a party and he was there," Collins, then an Op-Ed columnist, recalled. "He whipped around and said, 'do you like your job? Would you give it up?' " The result, of course, was just the opposite. Instead of being fired, she was promoted...