Americas

Public awareness of the number of American military fatalities in Iraq has declined sharply since last August. Today, just 28 per cent of adults are able to say that approximately 4,000 Americans have died in the Iraq war. As of March 10, the Department of Defence had confirmed the deaths of 3,974 US military personnel in Iraq. In August 2007, 54 per cent correctly identified the fatality level at...

Journalist Sanjuana Martínez Montemayor has been informed that her services will not longer be required by the daily Milenio, in Monterrey, Mexico, due to a "restructuring of the newspaper." The last article published by the journalist was titled "Ernestina: a year of ignominy" in the newspaper's 'A Bocajarro' column. In the article, Martínez Montemayor criticised the federal government's handling...

Several top US newspaper publishers will devote online advertising space to a new network that wants to make it easier to place ads on hundreds of newspapers' websites at a time, says a Reuters report. The network, quadrantONE, said it will get space from 138 sites and represent more than 250 newspapers. Publishers joining the network include AH Belo Corp, McClatchy Co, Media General Inc and EW...

Reporters sans Frontières (RSF) is worried about death threats made on March 18 against Auricela Castro García, the publisher of El Mundo de Orizaba, a daily based in Orizaba, in the southeastern Mexican state of Veracruz. The aim of the threats appears to have been to deter the newspaper from reporting that a local police inspector helped the town’s former police chief to evade arrest. “We...

Argentine television journalist Juan Carlos Zambrano was shot to death Wednesday morning in the northern province of Jujuy. Two unidentified men approached Zambrano, host of the daily news and the weekly opinion programme “Con la Gente” (With the People) on local television station Canal 7, outside his home in the provincial capital of San Salvador de Jujuy around 2:30am, according to reports in...

Reporters sans Frontières (RSF) has called for the immediate release of Argentina's Córdoba province-based journalist Néstor Pasquini, who has been held without trial for eight months on charges of inciting violence, aggravated arson, and causing minor injuries during a riot he was covering in a small town. The owner of local radio station FM Show and correspondent of the Red Panorama radio...

The mainstream media in the US isn't really losing audience as much as it had been hyped. Certainly not because of people switching over to the Internet as a news source. The Internet has profoundly changed journalism, but not necessarily in ways that were predicted even a few years ago. It was believed at one point that the Net would democratise the media, offering many new voices, stories and

An appeals court in Canada has overturned a lower court's 2004 contempt ruling against a journalist who would not reveal his source. In the ruling issued Monday in Toronto, the three-judge panel of the Ontario Court of Appeal ruled that the Charter of Rights and Freedoms applies to journalist-informant confidentiality and, as a result, the contempt charge and fine against Hamilton Spectator...

Nothing is sacred except the flagship newspaper, New York Times Co said on Tuesday, addressing investor concern over a sluggish share price and calls by an investor group to sell non-core assets, acording to Reuters. The company, whose stock has sunk 35 per cent since a high last June, faces a proxy battle by dissident shareholders Harbinger Capital Partners and Firebrand Partners, who aim to push...

A former USA Today reporter who was ordered to pay hefty fines starting at midnight Tuesday for refusing to name confidential sources for a story, has been granted a stay, Agence France-Presse (AFP) has reported quoting court sources. "It is ordered that the motion for a stay pending appeal be granted," a clerk at a US court of appeals in Washington told AFP, reading from the order. "Appellant has...