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News and information provider Reuters today claimed to have matched the market share of arch-rival Bloomberg for the first time in "at least 10 years". As it delivered forecast-busting growth in first quarter revenues to £633 million, Reuters argued that over the course of last year it increased its share of the £6 billion market for financial information and services by 1 per cent, to 27 per cent...

(JED/IFEX) - Anselme Masua, 42 years, a journalist with Radio Okapi - a joint project by the United Nations Mission in Congo and the Swiss Hirondelle Foundation - was beaten on the morning of 24 April 2006 in Kisangani, the capital of Oriental province in northeastern DR Congo, by Republican Guard military officers. According to information received by JED, Masua went to a camp where he clearly...

(RSF/IFEX) - Reporters Without Borders has condemned the murder of Koussai Kahdban, an Iraqi journalist with local radio station Al-Bilad, who was shot by gunmen on 22 April 2006 in Baghdad. His death brought the number of journalists and media assistants killed in Iraq since the start of the war in March 2003 to 88, of whom 12 have been killed since the beginning of 2006. "This horrible deed once...

(RSF/IFEX) - Reporters Without Borders has hailed Prime Minister Hun Sen's decision on 21 April 2006 to abolish imprisonment for defamation in Cambodia and urged other countries in Southeast Asia to follow suit, calling it an essential step towards real and lasting press freedom. "Parliament must take up this government proposal and turn it into law as soon as possible," the press freedom...

New York, April 24, 2006 - Officials at the National Intelligence Agency (NIA) today told staff of the private newspaper The Independent that authorities were lifting a month-long occupation of the newspaper's offices in the capital, Banjul. General Manager Madi Ceesay, who is also secretary-general of the Gambia Press Union, told the Committee to Protect Journalists that he hoped to put out an...

Index on Censorship's annual Freedom of Expression Awards have honoured journalists, writers, lawyers, campaigners, filmmakers and whistleblowers who have made a significant contribution to free expression over the past year. This is the fifth year of our annual awards, given to people who have made outstanding contributions, often heroic ones, to the defence of free expression, through their...

(April 25, 2006) -- Journalists are reviled by many for alleged negativism and over-focus on bad news in Iraq. Or perhaps the problem is: Their employers are just trying to do it on the cheap. Ironically, the same media that criticizes the U.S. for sending too few troops to stabilize Iraq send too few reporters to cover much more than the dramatic bombings around Baghdad. "I hope we keep out of...

NEW YORK: The John S. and James L. Knight Foundation is launching the Knight New Media Center to help journalists adapt in the digital age. The center will be jointly operated by the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Southern California and the Graduate School of Journalism at the University of California, Berkeley. The foundation granted $650,000 to fund the center in the...

WASHINGTON - A young teen riding his bike at dawn reaches into his shoulder bag, grabs a tightly folded newspaper and deftly throws it to the front steps. It's an image as American as apple pie, but the paperboy has gone the way of the milkman. Today's papers usually arrive by anonymous drive-and-toss. For reasons including the demise of afternoon papers, a shift to centralized distribution and...

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (caribbeannetnews) - Six years after the double assassination of renowned Haitian journalist Jean Dominique and his guard, Jean Claude Louissaint, the investigation is still in deadlock. The judge of instruction, Jean Ostrict Hercule, has been in charge of the affair since August 4, 2005, but withdrew his participation in the investigation citing personal reasons. According...