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A Chinese journalist serving a 10-year prison sentence for revealing his government’s orders to newspapers to censor their reporting of the Tiananmen Square massacre anniversary, has been awarded the 2007 Golden Pen of Freedom, the annual press freedom prize from the World Association of Newspapers (WAN). The award to Shi Tao, who was imprisoned after the American search engine company Yahoo...

At its World Congress on Thursday, the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) announced the election of Jim Boumelha of the National Union of Great Britain and Ireland as its president. Boumelha and other elected IFJ officials will serve their terms for the next three years. Osvaldo Urriolabeitia of the Federacion Argentina de Trabajadores de Prensa was elected to the post of senior vice...

Often the writing and photography that win Pulitzer Prizes require heroic efforts on the part of journalists. For one recipient this year, the process of receiving the award also took an enormous effort. In 1979, a photographer stood nearby as executioners shot Kurdish prisoners in Sanandaj, Iran. A picture he took for an Iranian newspaper was picked up by United Press International and published...

(IPA/IFEX) - Geneva, 16/05/2007 - Publisher Ncube of Zimbabwe receives 2007 IPA Freedom Prize for his exemplary courage in upholding freedom of expression. IPA also awards a special posthumous prize to Hrant Dink of Turkey and Anna Politkovskaya of Russia. During the opening ceremony of the 2nd Cape Town Book Fair on 15 June 2007, Zimbabwean publisher Trevor Ncube will be receiving the 2007 IPA...

Kate Webb, a brave, no-nonsense correspondent during the Vietnam War who was erroneously reported to have been captured, killed and cremated in Cambodia — only to emerge from the jungle alive —died on Sunday in Sydney, Australia. She was 64. The cause was bowel cancer, her brother, Jeremy Webb, told The Associated Press. Ms. Webb lived on the Hunter River, north of Sydney. On April 7, 1971, when...

NEW YORK - One-third of Americans say they have a negative view of Katie Couric, her personal popularity lagging behind rivals Charles Gibson and Brian Williams just as her evening news program trails in the ratings. The Gallup Poll survey released Thursday found that 51 percent of Americans said they had a positive view of Couric, who jumped from NBC's "Today" show to CBS last fall. The poll...

CHENNAI: A Fast Track Court (FTC) at Gobichettipalayam on Thursday acquitted R.R. Gopal, Editor of Tamil biweekly Nakheeran, and 10 others in a murder case. FTC-II Judge Prem Kumar in his order said there was no evidence to find any of the 11 accused guilty of any offence alleged by the prosecution. The matter relates to the suspected murder of a police informant, Kandavelu. Initially, the police...

Andrew Keen finds himself in the eye of a storm. The Briton, who made his living from the hi-tech boom in California's Silicon Valley, has dared to challenge the assumptions behind the internet revolution which began there and swept the world. America's massed army of bloggers do not like it one bit. Far from his birthplace in Golders Green, north London, Keen is now being labelled the nemesis of...

The competition for the most powerful position in business journalism ended yesterday as Marcus W. Brauchli was named managing editor of The Wall Street Journal, succeeding Paul E. Steiger, who has held the top job in the newsroom since 1991. Mr. Brauchli, 45, who joined Dow Jones, publisher of The Journal, in 1984 as a copy editor and served for many years as a Journal foreign correspondent, has...

NEW YORK: Her day usually starts around 5:30 a.m. in her Montclair, N.J., home, when she consults her Treo to check news from Europe and Asia while many neighbors are still sleeping. After a few quick calls to foreign news bureaus, she heads off to catch the train. It's unlikely that any of her fellow passengers on NJ Transit's Midtown Direct to New York give her more than a passing glance as they...