International

In two more days of testimony on 9 and 12 February 2007 to a coroner's court in Glebe, Sydney, witnesses provided more details about the circumstances in which cameraman Brian Peters and four other journalist working for Australian TV stations died in the East Timor border village of Balibo on 16 October 1975. A former fighter with the Fretilin guerrillas, who was 16 at the time, confirmed on 9...

The Belgian court copyright infringement ruling against Google News will not ultimately damage the search engine service, but it will bring the company to the negotiating table with publishers who are concerned about how their content is being used online. Losing Copiepresse's content will not in itself cause Google News too many problems. Many publishers see the Google News service as a fantastic...

A Belgian court has ruled that Web search leader Google Inc. may not reproduce extracts of Belgian press reports, upholding an existing injunction, news agencies reported on Tuesday. Google, the owner of the world's most-used search engine, must pay 25,000 euros ($32,500) a day until it removes all Belgian news content, the Brussels Court of First Instance ruled, according to a Bloomberg News...

Ubiquitous broadband network connections and digital devices that permeate every situation of daily life will allow people to use information, communication and services at work, at home and on the move, says a report by one of the world’s leading organisations for the newspaper and media industries. A screen shows Internet services available through an broadband-connected digital video recorder...

News agency Associated Press has tied up with NowPublic.com to bring citizen content into AP newsgathering and explore ways to involve NowPublic’s on-the-ground network of news contributors in AP's breaking news coverage. The goal of the effort is to expand the world’s access to news as it happens, the companies said in a press release Friday. In addition, it is designed to help NowPublic expand...

Malaysia on Saturday formally opened an office of its official news agency Bernama in India. “India’s ecomonic growth is being keenly followed by the developing world and Bernama hopes to catch first-hand the country’s unfolding success stories,” Malaysian Information Minister Datuk Seri Zainuddin Maidir said during the launch of the news agency’s office in Kuala Lampur. Union Science and...

Ifra’s editors have launched a seven-part “Future Press” series in ‘newspaper techniques’ magazine examining the technology’s latest developments. The series, which starts this month with a detailed report on the prospects for digital newspaper presses, anticipates the continued essential role of presses and printing in the production of paged media in general and newspapers in particular, Twenty...

The rise of popularly-elected autocrats worldwide is presenting an alarming new model for government control of the press, the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has warned. These leaders stand for election and express rhetorical support for democratic institutions while using measures such as punitive tax audits, manipulation of government advertising, and sweeping content restrictions to...

Indonesian soldiers shot dead five Australia-based journalists even as they were surrendering at the town of Balibo in East Timor in 1975. An inquest into the death of one of the five Australia-based journalists, Brian Peters, began in Sydney on Monday, more than 30 years after his death on the then Indonesian-occupied island. An East Timorese eyewitness told a Sydney inquest Monday he saw four of...

WASHINGTON — It has been a week since Al Jazeera English went on the air and Dave Marash, the news channel’s Washington-based anchor, is feeling like the “belle of the ball.” Everyone he meets is curious about his new job and everyone wants to hear what it is like to work for an outfit that has revolutionized television news and that is shunned by many Americans as a mouthpiece for anti-US...