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MOSCOW, March 15 (RIA Novosti) - Prosecutors in southern Russia have opened a criminal case against a newspaper editor accused of inciting ethnic hatred by publishing nationalist articles, officials said Wednesday. "Investigators said Igor Mogilev had since December 2005 distributed the newspaper Ya Russky [I Am Russian], which he edited himself, and print editions Tserbery Vlasti [Hounds of Power...

NAIROBI, 15 March (IRIN) - Political divisions in Ethiopia have led to a crackdown on privately owned newspapers, self-censorship by the media, and the imprisonment of journalists on charges that include treason and genocide, a media watchdog has reported. After spending a week in Ethiopia, a delegation of the Committee to Protect Journalist (CPJ) concluded that protests by opposition groups...

MEXICO CITY (IPS/GIN) -- Seven out of 10 Mexican television viewers watch channels belonging to the Televisa consortium, while two out of 10 watch TV Azteca channels. Radio broadcasting stations are concentrated in the hands of 13 business groups. Although this handful of firms already has almost all of the audience and a large share of the advertising, it wants an even bigger piece of the pie --...

MOSCOW, March 15 (RIA Novosti) - Prosecutors in southern Russia have opened a criminal case against a newspaper editor accused of inciting ethnic hatred by publishing nationalist articles, officials said Wednesday. "Investigators said Igor Mogilev had since December 2005 distributed the newspaper Ya Russky [I Am Russian], which he edited himself, and print editions Tserbery Vlasti [Hounds of Power...

NEW HAVEN, Conn. --Three central Connecticut newspapers will switch to a tabloid format in May as their parent company, Journal Register Co., tries to boost advertising revenue and reverse circulation losses. The Herald of New Britain, The Bristol Press and The Middletown Press announced the change in Wednesday's newspapers, saying the new editions will be easier to read and more attractive to...

LONDON -- The news editor for the BBC World Service's new Arabic-language television station will be a former employee of its main competitor, Al Jazeera, the London-based corporation announced on Tuesday. Salah Negm, 50, set up the news department at the Qatar-based satellite broadcaster and was a former director of news at the Al Arabiya channel in Dubai. He has also worked for Al Ekhbariyah...

Mary Cory, publisher of the Illini Media Company, and Adam Jung, vice president of the Illini Media Company board of directors and graduate student, addressed The Daily Illini staff present in the newsroom Tuesday evening around 7 p.m. concerning the employment of Acton Gorton, editor in chief. Jung announced to the staff that the board has decided to terminate Gorton immediately. "After...

TOKYO, March 15 (UPI) -- In a case involving a U.S. health food firm and its Japanese affiliate, Tokyo District Court ordered a Japanese reporter to reveal his source of information. At a hearing entrusted by an Arizona court, Judge Ken Fujishita on Tuesday ordered the reporter from the Yomiuri Shimbun newspaper to reveal his sources of information "if information was provided by a public servant...

Peshawar - In his office in Peshawar's historic Mohabat Khan mosque, prayer leader Maulana Yousaf Qureshi smoothes his beard from the white roots to the henna-orange tips. "There's no time limit. If someone kills the cartoonist in 50 years he will still get the million dollars," he says. In a blazing sermon on February 17, Qureshi promised the money - and a new car - to whoever assassinates any of...

(New York, March 14, 2006) – The Ugandan government’s expulsion of a foreign journalist is the latest example of a crackdown on independent media that predates recent elections, Human Rights Watch said. At least three local journalists also face serious criminal charges on account of their work. President Yoweri Museveni, in power in Uganda since 1986, won re-election last month, giving him...