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NEW YORK: A.M. Rosenthal, a Pulitzer Prize-winning foreign correspondent who became the executive editor of The New York Times and led the paper's global news operations through 17 years of record growth, modernization and major journalistic change, died Wednesday in Manhattan. He was 84. His death, at Mount Sinai Medical Center, came after he had suffered a stroke two weeks ago, his son Andrew...

(IPYS/IFEX) - In 2005, IPYS documented 121 freedom of expression violations, affecting 164 victims. Although the number of incidents diminished by 14.18% compared to 2004, the number of individuals effected increased by 7.93%. This demonstrates that the repressive actions against the press in 2005 had a greater impact and reach. These facts are all detailed in the book "Venezuela: Freedom of...

(AJI/IFEX) - Three days before the commemoration of World Press Freedom Day on 3 May, which is celebrated by journalists around the world, a local tabloid journalist in East Java was murdered. Herliyanto, 38, was found dead on 29 April 2006 in the forest near Tarokan, a village near the town of Banyuanyar, Probolinggo District, in East Java province. Police believe the cause of the death was...

(PROBIDAD/IFEX) - Octavio Carvajal, journalist and host of two programmes on the Tegucigalpa-based radio station STC Noticias, has reported to the Public Prosecutor's Office a physical attack that he suffered at the hands of Marcelo Chimirri, vice-director of the state telephone company Hondutel. The journalist also announced his intention to leave the country temporarily on 11 May 2006 for fear...

(RSF/IFEX) - Reporters Without Borders "firmly condemns" the physical mistreatment, including beatings and sexual abuse, which three foreign women photographers received from Mexico City police when they were arrested during a heavy-handed raid on a peace march in the suburb of San Salvador Atenco on 4 May 2006. The victims were María Sostres, a Spanish photographer, Samantha Dietmar, a German...

The 9 May 2006 election of 10 of the world's worst violators of free expression - Algeria, Azerbaijan, Bangladesh, China, Cuba, Nigeria, Pakistan, Russia, Saudi Arabia and Tunisia - to be members of the UN's new Human Rights Council was called a "scandal" today by Reporters Without Borders (RSF). "It is outrageous that 10 countries that violate the rights of journalists and free expression on a...

New York, May 11, 2006 - The Committee to Protect Journalists is alarmed by reports that Egyptian police and security officers assaulted several journalists covering protests today in support of two judges facing dismissal for criticizing last year's parliamentary elections. Several journalists detained while covering similar protests last month are still being held. Plainclothes police and...

Vienna, 11 May 2006: On the occasion of the European Union Latin America and Caribbean (EU-LAC) Summit in Vienna, Austria, the International Press Institute (IPI), the global network of editors, media executives and leading journalists, calls on the European Union (EU) to raise the issue of press freedom and freedom of expression. In the Americas, at least 11 journalists were killed because of...

New York, May 11, 2006 - With the 2008 Olympic Games just two years away, the Committee to Protect Journalists is greatly concerned about the Chinese government's continuing crackdown on the media. China's policies of the past three years show a disturbing trend that seems certain to affect journalists reporting from Beijing in 2008. CPJ calls on the Chinese government and the International...

SUDAN-CHAD BORDER (CNN) -- One of the greatest difficulties of reporting from Darfur is the size, scale and scope of it. Darfur itself is about two thirds the size of Texas. It's a large area, and it doesn't have a road infrastructure like Texas. That's for sure. There are a lot of dirt roads, but not a lot else, and the big problem is security. Getting around to cover this story is a major...