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Shi Tao, the Chinese journalist who was imprisoned after the American search engine company Yahoo provided information to the Chinese authorities that led to his arrest, has been awarded the 2007 Golden Pen of Freedom, the annual press freedom prize of the World Association of Newspapers. Mr Shi is serving a 10-year sentence on charges of "leaking state secrets" for writing an e-mail about media...

It still happens that before shipping off to India, you are prescribed one of VS Naipaul's subcontinental travel tomes, several hundred pages of sonorous insights meant to be taken along with your bitter, nightmare-inducing anti-malarials. Together with Rushdie's Indo-Pak partition epic Midnight's Children, Naipaul's India books constitute the heavier half of a well-established literary travel...

Dean Baquet was forced out as editor of the Los Angeles Times after he refused renewed demands from Tribune Co. to lay off more journalists, aggravating tension between the media company and its biggest newspaper. Mr. Baquet is exiting a month after Tribune ousted the newspaper's publisher, Jeffrey M. Johnson, and replaced him with David D. Hiller, then the publisher of the company's flagship...

LONDON - John McGurk, the managing editor of the Telegraph Group, has relinquished his role after just four months, amid mounting speculation of cultural differences with senior management. McGurk, who was editor at The Scotsman before joining the Telegraph Group, has not left the company but it is unclear whether his future will be at the Telegraph Group. He was tasked with overseeing cost-saving...

Washington, Nov. 3 (PTI): Several Indian-Americans have been nominated for the first ever national ethnic media awards for their contributions to American journalism. Close to 600 ethnic journalists competed for recognition in 19 categories, ranging from 'Investigative Journalism' to 'Best Community Talk Show' and more than 50 judges from universities, mainstream media and community-based...

The Toronto-based Canadian Journalists for Free Expression usually presents two annual awards to support embattled journalists around the world. But when the press-freedom prizes are presented tonight in Toronto, a third is being added to honour Hayatullah Khan's memory. Mr. Khan was a 32-year-old Pakistani investigative reporter who was found dead in June, six months after being abducted in the...

(WPFC/IFEX) - The WPFC has given a Fund Against Censorship grant to Argentinean journalist and author Mariano Saravia, an investigative reporter who has been sued for civil defamation after writing a book naming former armed forces and police officers whom he alleges participated in assassinations, tortures and disappearances of people opposed to the former military dictatorship. Because of the...

NEW YORK – For May Chidiac, host of Lebanon's popular "Good Day" TV program, it was a regular Sunday in September. She had just finished a show on Syria's possible involvement in the assassination of former Prime Minister Rafik Hariri and had left the studio feeling satisfied and secure. When she got into her car, a half-kilogram of explosives blew up under her front seat. She survived, but the...

NEW YORK: Joe Maguire was fired as a Reuters editor for writing a book critical of Ann Coulter, according to the People for the American Way (PFAW) Web site. There has been speculation that Maguire's departure from Reuters earlier this month was tied to his writing "Brainless: The Lies and Lunacy of Ann Coulter" (William Morrow, Oct. 10). Maguire's Tuesday talk at PFAW's New York office was...

Prominent Indian journalist and academic Sarmila Bose has taken over as director of the newly opened Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism in the University of Oxford. The institute, based in the university's Department of Politics and International Relations, will be officially launched on Nov 20. The Reuters Foundation has extended funding of 1.75 million pounds over five years to the...