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Can The Inquirer and Philadelphia Daily News build a future on the back of their Web site, Philly.com? That is a critical question for the investors pondering bids for the two newspapers and Web site. Will there come a day when readers, advertisers and revenue fleeing the newspapers will be captured by the Web site - in numbers sufficient to sustain the expensive business of covering news, sports...

Srinagar, May 13: Despite assurances by defence spokesman, Greater Kashmir’s Kupwara reporter was once again harassed by Army authorities for reporting from the spot the molestation of a woman and subsequent demonstrations and firing by Rashtriya Rifles soldiers of 30 RR in Aishpora, Handwara on Friday. The testimonies of the protesters reported were narrated by the people to Superintendent of...

BAGHDAD, Iraq -- Freedom to criticize the government is one of the few things flourishing in contemporary Iraq. But editorial cartoonists who are testing the limits of expression face a different threat: extremists incensed by their art. During Saddam Hussein's time, speaking out could bring imprisonment, torture and even execution. Nowadays, the danger doesn't come from the government but the...

The final edition of a newspaper that has provided sports fans with results for more than a century rolls off the presses for the last time on Saturday. The Sports Argus, is part of Birmingham Post and Mail Ltd, which is owned by Trinity Mirror. The Saturday pink paper's demise is being blamed on falling circulation. The Birmingham Mail will now publish the paper as part of its main paper on...

On the first anniversary of the killings in the eastern Uzbek city of Andijan, the Uzbek broadcast media chose not to devote a great deal of airtime to the events. Uzbek TV's main news programme in Russian mentioned Andijan about halfway through the bulletin, with a report that focused on the reconstruction of the city, praising government efforts to boost the local economy. Uzbek radio earlier...

KUALA LUMPUR: A Chinese daily’s report on the alleged auction of a Vietnamese woman at a market in Rawang, which created an international stir, appears to be false. Police have ascertained that the report was based on hearsay and two sources quoted in the report yesterday denied that they had spoken to the reporter. Selangor CID chief Datuk Hadi Ho Abdullah said police, accompanied by the reporter...

(RSF/IFEX) - Reporters Without Borders has condemned a Casablanca appeal court ruling on 9 May 2006 upholding a suspended sentence of a year in prison and a fine of 100,000 dirhams (9,000 euros) for Driss Chahtane, the editor of the Arabic-language weekly "Al Michaâl", for allegedly libelling Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika. The sentence is yet another reminder of the need to decriminalize...

(PROBIDAD/IFEX) - Journalist Wendy Guerra, dismissed 24 April 2006 by the owner of Canal 49 television station in Santa Rosa de Copán in western Honduras, has been reinstated in her position after an alert concerning her case was issued nationally and internationally. The journalist had been dismissed due to political pressures from the local government. Guerra told the Committee for Free...

(RSF/IFEX) - Reporters Without Borders has condemned the physical attacks which five Chinese journalists sustained at the hands of mine employees and security guards on 7 and 8 May 2006 while trying to cover an accident in the Meihe coal mine in the northeastern province of Jilin. "As well as having to cope with government censorship, China's journalists are increasingly subject to physical...

(IPYS/IFEX) - Daniel Santoro, a journalist for the daily newspaper "Clarín" and president of the Argentinean Journalism Forum (Foro de Periodismo Argentino, FOPEA), has denounced that his e-mail was surreptitiously monitored and copied by unknown persons who did the same to that of Federal Judge Daniel Rafecas. An account of the event appeared in the newspaper on 11 May 2006. According to...