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JACOBABAD/SUKKUR, June 22: TV reporter Mukesh Rupeta and his cameraman Sanjay Kumar were produced in the court of a civil judge here on Thursday, three months after they had been detained for filming the Jacobabad airbase, designated as a sensitive area. Members of their families, close relatives and friends were in the court. The two had been handed over on Wednesday to the Jacobabad Airport...

NEW YORK — Major newspapers came under fire from top Bush administration officials Friday for publishing accounts, despite objections from the White House, of an extensive program to collect data on international financial transfers by suspected terrorists. Treasury Secretary John Snow said the disclosures, which appeared in The New York Times, Los Angeles Times and The Wall Street Journal, were...

New York, June 22, 2006—The Committee to Protect Journalists urged Mexican authorities to revive a stalled investigation into the murder of Francisco Ortiz Franco, co-editor of the Tijuana-based weekly Zeta, who was gunned two years ago today. José Luis Vasconcelos, the leading prosecutor in the organized crime division of the federal Attorney General’s office, told CPJ that there had been no...

The newspaper industry will continue to be plagued by an unstable advertising market, despite huge potential revenue growth online, according to UBS analyst Brian Shipman in a report on Thursday. The analyst released the report following the Newspaper Association of America's Mid Year Media Review conference in New York. “While interactive revenues remain a large potential growth opportunity for...

Portions of CareerBuilder.com, a popular job recruitment Web site, are up for grabs among several newspaper companies trying to piggyback on its success. As online advertisers migrate to the Web, most newspapers' revenues from online job advertisers are growing. But CareerBuilder is especially attractive because it is a national brand that is actually attached to newspapers and can increase their...

MIRANSHAH: Pro-Taliban militants yesterday distributed leaflets blaming Pakistani authorities for the killing of a reporter who was investigating the death of a key Al Qaeda operative. The Urdu-language pamphlets were circulated in Miranshah town in restive North Waziristan tribal agency, five days after the handcuffed body of journalist Hayatullah Khan, 35, was found in nearby Mir Ali. “He was...

Fears among traditional media such as TV and newspapers that the internet will cannibalise their market are unfounded, a digital media expert has said. Nate Elliott, analyst for the European digital home with Jupiter Research, spoke last week at a seminar organised by iReach, called ‘Digital content – changing consumer demands’. “European homes are being flooded with digital content,” he said....

The Discovery Channel is the number one Media Brand in Overall Quality for the tenth consecutive year, and the number one Television Network Brand in Overall Quality for the fourteenth consecutive year according to the 2006 EquiTrend; brand study by Harris Interactive. In addition, the number of high quality Discovery Communications brands in the study exceeds all other media companies. This year...

June 22, 2006 (RFE/RL) -- Human Rights Watch (HRW) today urged the Afghan government to revoke immediately a recent directive restricting the freedom of the press to report on violence and other things that might weigh on public opinion. HRW says in a statement posted on its website that the directive -- distributed by Afghanistan's intelligence agency, the National Security Directorate -- demands...

TORONTO, OTTAWA -- The federal government should automatically review any media merger that gives one company too much market share, possibly setting a threshold in the neighbourhood of 35 per cent, a Senate report says. Canada's major media companies should also regularly state who their major shareholders are, either during broadcasts or in print, as a public service, said the report released...