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Jammu: The Rajouri Police has arrested a local journalist and booked him under section 153 RPC for provoking the public. According to the sources, a person approached Shafiq Mir, reporter of Indian Express and chief editor of Kashmir Watch (Weekly) to publish some objectionable advertisement in his weekly. When Shafiq refused to publish the said advertisement the person approached another local...

Tough new privacy laws could be introduced here within the coming month. Michael McDowell intends to bring in new laws that would afford strong privacy protection to Irish public figures even when they appear in some public places. The Minister for Justice has drawn up privacy legislation following Cabinet resistance last May to introducing libel reform. The libel reforms, which are expected to be...

NEW YORK - Did a recent Associated Press story examining President George Bush's alleged tendency to use a "straw man" approach in his speeches cross the line from news to biased opinion? Or was it just a long-overdue, in-depth review of the president's public speaking approach? The viewpoint, as often happens in Washington, depends on whose blog you are reading, and what you consider opinion and...

Advertising is the lifeblood of newspapers, supplying 75 percent to 80 percent of their revenue. So it is not good news for newspapers that many of the nation's biggest newspaper advertisers have problems of their own. Four of the top 10 advertisers, for example, went through mergers in the last two years. All cut advertising afterward. "Those are a lot of punches to absorb, and I think they do...

Looking for a lawyer to get you bundles of cash? You might want to hire the firm that shows stacks of $100s across its ad. "Millions of dollars recovered for accident victims," it reads. Or the one with photographs of the back of an ambulance, wrecked cars and a hospital bed. "We get the compensation you deserve," trumpets this one, in the Verizon yellow pages for Westchester and Putnam counties...

DUBAI, March 25 (Reuters) - An Iraqi militant group which killed an Italian reporter in 2004 said it was watching foreign journalists but would only kill those it considers to be spies for its U.S.-led enemies. Al Jazeera television broadcast an interview on Saturday with a man it described as the spokesman of the Islamic Army in Iraq, who accused the United States of responsibility for the car...

Lawmaker Hisayasu Nagata revealed Friday that Takashi Nishizawa, a freelance journalist who later published a magazine, was the source of what was supposed to be an explosive e-mail showing a cash link between Livedoor Co. and a son of the Liberal Democratic Party secretary general. "I have kept his name secret until now as part of my efforts to protect my source. But once it became clear I was...

Free daily newspapers made significant readership gains in some of Canada's largest cities last year, although new industry figures suggest their quick growth may be levelling off. Data released yesterday by Newspaper Audience Databank Inc. show the audience for free commuter papers in Toronto and Montreal grew faster than paid newspapers. The commuter paper 24 Hours was among the biggest movers...

PESHAWAR, Pakistan – The family of a Pakistani journalist kidnapped in December said Thursday that they believe he could be in U.S. custody. Hayatullah Khan was abducted at gunpoint in the volatile North Waziristan tribal region Dec. 5 by armed, masked men whom a witness at the time described as dressed like fighters from the ousted Taliban regime of Afghanistan. But Ihsanullah Khan, the victim's...

BAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- The rescue of three Western aid workers in Iraq raised hopes among friends and family of kidnapped American journalist Jill Carroll, who has been missing for 11 weeks. "Although their case is unrelated to Jill's, their release gives us new hope that Jill, too, will soon be freed," Carroll's family told The Christian Science Monitor, the newspaper for which she was a...