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(RSF/IFEX) - On the eve of the 13th anniversary of Eritrea's independence, on 24 May 2006, Reporters Without Borders appealed to President Issaias Afeworki to release all of his government's prisoners of conscience, including 13 journalists being held incommunicado whose newspapers were shut down in a September 2001 crackdown. "Eritrea's independence day is once again going to be ruined by the...

New York, May 23, 2006 - Newspaper editor Mohammed al-Asaadi is on trial in Yemen on criminal charges of insulting Islam by running edited versions of some of the Prophet Muhammad cartoons that created an international storm. Al-Asaadi, editor of the Yemen Observer, faces severe jail time and a possible death sentence for his editorial decision. The case, which also led to the three-month closure...

(SEAPA/IFEX) - On 23 May 2006, an explosive device made of firecracker materials was detonated in front of the Thai Press Association on Rachasima Rd. in Bangkok, causing damages to the association's marble sign. Police said a security guard on duty at the site heard a loud explosion in front the compound at around 3 a.m. (local time). According to the police, the guard went out to check but did...

(May 22, 2006) -- What does it take to advance your newspaper reporting or editing career? Well, the old stand-bys of talent and hard work still apply, and a bit of who-you-know thrown in can be helpful. But these days, there's more to it. Let's add in a willingness and ability to add non-traditional job responsibilities to get onto the fast lane of career advancement. Start piling on the job...

Representatives of big media companies--said to include Time Warner and NBC Universal, among others--will don hard hats Tuesday, May 23, and make a visit to what will be the new broadcast studio of the Newseum, the Washington-based museum/educational center dedicated to journalism past, present and future. The media companies are said to be bringing with them what is being billed as "one of the...

NEW YORK (AdAge.com) -- "Engagement" has begun to resemble a Holy Grail of magazine metrics -- neither fully understood nor precisely located, but the object of countless quests. A new study on engagement, one among many efforts to demystify the subject, delivers a blow to true believers. Performance findings The study suggests that ads in high-engagement magazines perform no better than ads in...

Most women who work in sports media say they are satisfied with their career choice despite discrimination and abuse, according to a just-released study. Three decades after passage of Title IX, women who work in sports journalism and sports information face serious obstacles to tenure and advancement, according to a survey by the Center for Sports Journalism at Penn State. Most women report that...

NEW DELHI: The Supreme Court on Monday dismissed the anticipatory bail petition of Sunil Mehra, Editor of magazine 'Maxim', against whom a case has been lodged for publishing indecent morphed photographs of south Indian film actress Khushboo. "This (publication of the indecent photograph) is a blatant attempt to increase the circulation of your magazine," a vacation Bench comprising Justice Arijit...

NEW YORK (AdAge.com) -- "Engagement" has begun to resemble a Holy Grail of magazine metrics -- neither fully understood nor precisely located, but the object of countless quests. A new study on engagement, one among many efforts to demystify the subject, delivers a blow to true believers. Performance findings The study suggests that ads in high-engagement magazines perform no better than ads in...

WALVIS BAY, Namibia (Reuters) - A Namibian judge dismissed charges on Monday against a South African photographer arrested for trespassing while trying to snap a shot of pregnant superstar Angelina Jolie and her partner Brad Pitt. John Liebenberg was taken into custody on Friday afternoon after driving into the back of a police barracks in search of a vantage point to take a photograph of a nearby...