NEW YORK (Adage.com) -- It's a moment that has been anticipated for a decade, but that makes it no less seminal. This is the year, according to Merrill Lynch, the Internet collects more ad dollars than magazines. Assuming the forecast is correct, magazines will become the first big medium to watch the Web pass by -- unless you count phone books, which are also projected to fall behind in 2006. Yet...
Alfred Egbegi, publisher of the weekly newspaper "Izon Link", who was arrested by the police in Yenogoa, the Bayelsa state capital in the Niger-Delta region of Nigeria on 12 April 2006, has been released from custody, but is now facing criminal charges in court. Egbegi was released on bail in the evening of 12 April, hours after his arrest and detention, but was charged by the police before a...
DHAKA, April 17 (Reuters) - Nearly 300 local media representatives took to the streets in Dhaka on Monday to protest against a police attack on colleagues covering the second test between Bangladesh and Australia. At least 10 reporters and photographers were injured on Sunday when police beat them with batons at the divisional stadium in Chittagong. Monday's Bangladesh newspapers carried neither...
Cricket took a back seat on the opening day of the second Test between Bangladesh and Australia as police swung into an uncalled for action against the on-duty journalists, injuring at least 20 media-men of different national dailies and satellite televisions at the Chittagong Divisional Stadium yesterday. Of the injured, Anurup Titu of Dainik Purbokon was admitted with a serious head injury to...
BOGOTA, Colombia – It was a most unpresidential spectacle: President Alvaro Uribe upbraiding the editor of Colombia's top news magazine on morning talk radio for rekindling a corruption scandal just weeks before he stands for re-election. The magazine Semana had doggedly reported on allegations of fraud in Uribe's 2002 election victory, a conspiracy to assassinate leftist and union activists, and...
Freedom of speech in Bulgaria took one of its most serious hits last week after on April 6, a bomb detonated in front of the flat of Vassil Ivanov, an investigative journalist from Nova Television, one of the three national broadcast stations. The bomb was planted in front of the entrance to Ivanov’s flat in a seven-storey apartment block in Sofia’s Banishora neighbourhood. Miraculously, no one...
HANOI: Bold headlines and mugshots of a cabinet minister quitting in a corruption scandal, readers criticising leaders and a government refusal to release a "cyber-dissident". The different faces of Vietnam's changing state-controlled media have been on view in the weeks before the ruling Communist Party National Congress, which opens on April 18. "I think there are no limitations on our coverage...
The Danish cartoon crisis has extended into Yemen. Three local papers published this defamatory picture. A quick and hasty reaction closed these papers down and annulled their permission to publish. Additionally, the editors in chief were imprisoned (Yemen Observer, Al-Rai Al-Am, and Al-Hurriya). Many became preoccupied by this offense and mosques began to collect donations to defend the Prophet...
SRINAGAR: Jammu and Kashmir saw its first women's magazine hit the news stands this week, but while issues such as dating and working mothers are on the contents page, politics and Islam are not. She’ reflects changes in the conservative Muslim state, where women are increasingly faced with the kind of choices that more liberal societies have been dealing with for far longer, the magazine said in...
(RSF/IFEX) - Reporters Without Borders has voiced concern about Munir Mengal, the head of Baloch Voice, a Baluchi-language TV station based in the United Arab Emirates, who has been missing since he arrived in the southern city of Karachi on a flight from Bahrain on 7 April 2006. His family thinks Pakistani military intelligence officers arrested him at the airport. The press freedom organisation...
