Ethics and Freedom

NEW DELHI: The Centre on Wednesday informed the Delhi High Court that it was planning to bring an amendment in Press Council on India Act to give it more teeth for acting against newspapers and magazines which publish obscene pictures. The Centre shared its plan for give more powers to the PCI with a Bench comprising Chief Justice M K Sharma and Justice Sanjeev Khanna which was hearing a bunch of...

The latest jail terms handed down to journalists in Egypt are making the country being seen as one of the most repressive for media in the world. A court has imposed a sentence of one-month’s forced labour on editor of Al-Wafd, Anwar Al-Hawari and Younes Darwish, the daily’s correspondent in Assyout, 380 km south of Cairo, for “publishing false news” about fraud by two members of the

CHICAGO: There are no adult ads in this week's edition of the Orlando (Fla.) Weekly -- just a blank page where they would be -- and there might not be any in the alternative paper next week, either. Orlando Weekly Publisher Rick Schreiber, in a brief telephone conversation with E&P Friday, said no decision had been made about whether to run the ads for massage parlors, escort services, and other...

Egypt continues to imprison journalists and editors who publish stories critical of President Hosni Mubarak and other high officials. Activist advocating minority rights in the country are also detained and fined. Basic right of freedom of religion and fundamental right of free expression are being explicitly violated. Members and partners of the International Freedom of Expression Exchange (IFEX)...

Egypt continues to imprison journalists and editors who publish stories critical of President Hosni Mubarak and other high officials. Activist advocating minority rights in the country are also detained and fined. Basic right of freedom of religion and fundamental right of free expression are being explicitly violated. Members and partners of the International Freedom of Expression Exchange (IFEX)

Irish Times editor Geraldine Kennedy has said she is disappointed at today's High Court ruling ordering her and public affairs correspondent Colm Keena to appear before the Mahon tribunal. The court this morning ordered the two journalists to answer questions on the source of an article about financial payments to Taoiseach Bertie Ahern in 1993. The article was published on September 21st, 2006...

MADRID, Spain: Spain's top-selling newspaper, El Pais, unveiled a new design on Sunday with greater emphasis on photographs and graphics, a different typeface and the goal of being the world's leading Spanish-language daily. The revamped look is the culmination of a 9-month project to overhaul the center-left newspaper that was founded in 1976, a year after the death of Gen. Francisco Franco. El...

SHIMLA, Oct. 20: The “sting operation” that had raised a fierce political storm in Himachal Pradesh three months ago turned out to be fake! The one-man Garg Inquiry Committee set up on the order of the Himachal High Court has submitted its report giving a clean chit to the then transport and tourism minister Mr GS Bali. The controversy that had provided ammunition to the Opposition, with the...

Two executives from Village Voice Media — a company that owns a number of alternative weeklies including The Village Voice, The LA Weekly and The Phoenix Times — were arrested Thursday night in Phoenix on charges that a story published earlier in the day in The Phoenix New Times revealed grand jury secrets. Michael Lacey, the executive editor, and Jim Larkin, chief executive, were arrested at...

Oct. 19, 2007 · A state judge in Utah told a local TV news reporter to produce a public service story as a consequence for unknowingly violating his order not to speak with potential jurors in the rape trial of a leader of a polygamist sect. Katie Baker, a reporter with KUTV in Salt Lake City, said she was unaware of the judge's order when she interviewed potential juror Mo Webb. Nonetheless...