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Eleven Pakistani media personnel were killed and seventeen others injured in the October 8 quake. Two hundred and forty-two persons working for the media suffered personal or property losses �69 family members of media personnel were killed and 15 others injured. These findings have been revealed in a just-published preliminary report based on the first phase of an assessment mission of the...

American Journalism Review Managing Editor Lori Robertson is leaving the magazine this month to concentrate on freelance writing, and current AJR senior writer and part-time editor Rachel Smolkin is being promoted to Robertson's position. AJR Editor and Senior Vice President Rem Rieder announced the changeover today. Robertson plans to spend several months in Latin America, traveling, writing and...

A Senegalese journalist is among the three winners of this year's Integrity Awards given by Transparency International (TI) for contributions to the fight against corruption in their countries. The 2005 Integrity Awards were given to Abdou Latif Coulibaly, an investigative journalist from Senegal; Khairiansyah Salman, an auditor at the Supreme Audit Agency (BPK) in Indonesia; and an independent...

Akbar Ganji, a leading investigative journalist who is now one of Iran's most renowned political prisoners, has been awarded the 2006 Golden Pen of Freedom, the annual press freedom prize of the World Association of Newspapers (WAN). WE WANT HIM FREED: An Iranian woman brandishes a picture of journalist Akbar Ganji, Iran's highest profile political prisoner, during a protest staged outside Tehran...

The Los Angeles Times is axing Pulitzer Prize-winning editorial cartoonist Michael Ramirez and longtime columnist Robert Scheer as part of a major editorial page shake-up. The changes were announced on Thursday by the Times editorial page editor Andres Martinez, who assumed responsibility for the daily Op-Ed page and the Sunday Current section in September. Robert Scheer: My only regret is that my...

The International Centre for Journalists (ICFJ) has honoured four journalists from Brazil, Indonesia, Russia and Sudan for their achievements in the face of political and economic threats at the annual Excellence in International Journalism Awards Dinner on November 9. This year's Knight International Press Fellowship Awards were given to Marcelo Beraba of Brazil, Bambang Harymurti of Indonesia...

Iranian journalist-blogger Omid Memarian was among three human rights activists to be honoured with the Human Rights Defender award in New York on Tuesday. Memarian embodies the new generation of human rights defenders who are pushing the boundaries of freedom of expression in Iran by using the Internet to spread ideas. SHOWING THE RIGHTS WAY: Memarian worked as a journalist for reformist...

Journalists from Ukraine and Gambia have been honoured with the International Press Freedom Award for persisting in their work even while facing serious threats to their lives. Mykola Veresen of Ukraine and Alagi Yorro Jallow of Gambia were selected from an exceptional group of nominees, the largest list of submissions Canadian Journalists for Free Expression (CJFE) has considered in recent years...

The European Federation of Journalists (EFJ) has urged European Union institutions and national governments to recognise, protect, and enforce journalists' authors' rights throughout the union. The appeal was made in a statement issued on Monday after a two-day EFJ seminar on ownership of authors' rights and collective management in the European Union. The federation called on on EU member states...

The Financial Times is regarded as one of the most benign employers in national newspapers so the dethronement of Andrew Gowers as its editor yesterday was a decidedly un-FT event. It demonstrated deep anxiety at the paper's owners, Pearson, about the FT's future direction and performance, analysts said. The official statement from Pearson said "strategic differences" between Mr Gowers and the...