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(CPJ/IFEX) - New York, May 30, 2006 - The Committee to Protect Journalists condemns the killing of Munir Ahmed Sangi, a cameraman for the Sindhi-language Kawish Television Network (KTN). Sangi was shot on Monday afternoon while covering a gunfight between members of the Unar and Abro tribes in the town of Larkana, in southeast Pakistan's Sindh district, according to local media reports. At least...

(CPJ/IFEX) - New York, May 30, 2006 - At least three local journalists were detained by the Gambia's National Intelligence Agency (NIA) on Friday as part of a growing crackdown on the U.S.-based news site Freedom Newspaper, local sources told the Committee to Protect Journalists. The three were arrested after their names and addresses appeared on a list of purported Freedom Newspaper contributors...

(CPJ/IFEX) - New York, May 30, 2006 - The Committee to Protect Journalists condemns the detention of independent Cuban journalist Armando Betancourt, who was arrested a week ago while covering the evictions of dozens of families from their homes in the central city of Camagüey, sources told CPJ. On May 23, authorities forcefully evicted families allegedly occupying homes illegally, according to...

(CPJ/IFEX) - New York, May 30, 2006 - CBS News correspondent Kimberly Dozier, who was critically wounded in Iraq by a bomb that killed her two colleagues, was flown today to a U.S. military hospital in Germany. Dozier, 39, is being treated for injuries to her head and lower body, CBS reported. Col. Brian Gamble of Landstuhl Regional Medical Center said Dozier "was responsive, opening her eyes to...

Krishna Bharat, Google's principal scientist and inventor of the controversial Google News service, argues that he is not out to crush newspapers - but he does have advice on why most have got the internet wrong. "We don't want to replace anyone's favourite newspaper, we are complementary and add value," he says matter-of-factly. This is not, however, the view the World Association of Newspapers...

Washington, DC – An American freelance journalist who was held in captivity in Iraq and a Lebanese television broadcaster who survived a car bomb explosion are recipients of this year’s International Women’s Media Foundation Courage in Journalism Award. These women journalists will receive Courage awards along with a Chinese journalist who was unable to accept a 1995 Courage in Journalism Award...

CREATING ONLINE CONTENT IS NO longer the province of a handful of early adopters. Instead, it's become a mainstream activity, spurred largely by the increased availability of broadband connections, according to a new report by the Pew Internet & American Life Project. As of last December, 35 percent of Americans had posted to a blog, created a Web page, shared online photos, or otherwise generated...

The Namibian government has officially called on the owner and editor of a local weekly newspaper, Windhoek Observer, to stop publishing letters with hate messages directed at former president Sam Nujoma. In a written statement, Information and Broadcasting Minister Netumbo Nandi-Ndaitwah condemned the hate letters and said editor Hannes Smith, a veteran Namibian journalist whom she accused of...

(RSF/IFEX) - Reporters Without Borders has condemned a 26 May 2006 Versailles appeal court ruling confirming that Dominique Issartel and Damien Ressiot of the daily "L'Equipe" should be formally placed under investigation for "helping to violate the confidentiality of a judicial investigation" into the use of banned drugs by a cycling team. The ruling is inconsistent with justice minister Pascal...

(RSF/IFEX) - Reporters Without Borders (RSF) condemns an attack by security guards on a three-member Ayna TV crew that went to the Afghan parliament on 27 May 2006 to cover the selection of candidates for the presidency of the Supreme Court. "This use of violence was a serious obstruction to the work of the press," RSF said. "We call on the authorities to punish the security guards responsible and...