Conflict Journalism

Reporters sans Frontières (RSF) has voiced outrage at the continuing harassment of the independent press by the security forces in both Kathmandu and the districts, in which at least six journalists have been detained, attacked or threatened already this year. DOWN WITH THE KING: Supporters of the Nepal Workers and Peasant Party take part in a massive rally against the monarchy in the capital...

Kathmandu, Jan 9 (PTI) Police in an eastern Nepal district have allegedly grilled a journalist with a leading English-language daily to reveal the source of a report he had filed and threatened him with "trouble" if he failed to do so. A Deputy Superintendent of Police yesterday pressurised 'The Kathmandu Post' reporter Benupraj Bhattarai to reveal the source of his news story, which said a group...

Journalists across the country staged demonstrations on Friday, demanding press freedom and early end to the fresh curb on independent media. Hundreds of journalists, human rights activists and representatives of professional organisations joined a rally organised by the Federation of Nepalese Journalists (FNJ) in the capital in the afternoon. Addressing a gathering at Indra Chowk after a rally...

The Supreme Court of Nepal ordered the government Wednesday to allow a private radio station to relay BBC programmes, the station's chief said. "We will resume the broadcast of the BBC Nepali Service from Wednesday," Radio Sagarmatha chief Lakshman Upreti said. RED RIDING HOODS: Nepalese activists shout anti-monarch slogans during a rally at Naya Baneswar in the capital Kathamandu December 2,2005...

It is a dark and humid night as a Tomahawk cruise missile fired from a ship sailing west of the Strait of Hormuz whizzes its way over the Qatari Peninsula and into a compound of small buildings that are turned into rubble on impact. The missile has been fired by the United States Navy and its target is the headquarters of the Al-Jazeera satellite television network located in Qatar just four miles...

Nothing puts the lie to the Bush Administration's absurd claim that it invaded Iraq to spread democracy throughout the Middle East more decisively than its ceaseless attacks on Al Jazeera, the institution that has done more than any other to break the stranglehold over information previously held by authoritarian forces, whether monarchs, military strongmen, occupiers or ayatollahs. The United...

Three myths that have been perpetrated and perpetuated by the Israeli media are already being employed by the various parties for their election campaigns. # The right-wing myth: Gush Katif has been forgotten. The parties to the right of the Likud - and even some of the Likud leadership contenders - are trying to harness public sympathy for the 10,000 evacuated settlers of Gush Katif and Northern...

In my youth in the 1930s and in World War II, back in the days when Democrat Franklin Delano Roosevelt was president of the United States, when it was announced he would be speaking on the radio, throughout this nation families gathered around the radio and listened to what he had to say. The New York Times printed what he said IN FULL in its next edition. Yet, it is almost impossible, it seems...

I have lost count of the number of accusations levelled against al-Jazeera and the incidents of harassment to which it has been subjected since it was founded in 1996. It was rumoured to have been set up by Israel's Mossad intelligence agency with the purpose of improving Israel's standing in the Arab world. It has also been accused of being a CIA mouthpiece designed to disseminate western culture...

The Australian and British governments colluded to cover up the killing of five Australian-based journalists in East Timor in 1975, new documents have revealed. Five television journalists – Greg Shackleton, Gary Cunningham, Tony Stewart, Malcolm Rennie and Brian Peters – were killed while covering Indonesia's invasion of East Timor. LAST SHOT: The word "Australia" and an Australian flag painted...