CARACAS, Venezuela – Venezuela's only English-language newspaper has expanded its circulation to Peru and is looking to begin sales in countries across Latin America, the paper's new editor said. The Daily Journal began distributing 3,500 copies a day on Monday in Lima to a select group of readers, said Julio Augusto Lopez Enriquez, a Venezuelan of Peruvian descent who is the paper's new president...
NEW YORK: By the time Washington Post reporter Griff Witte took up his three-month post in Afghanistan last November, the 27-year-old had already acquired a substantial working knowledge of the country and its history. As a researcher for former Post managing editor Steve Coll's Pulitzer Prize-winning book Ghost Wars, Witte had traveled extensively in the country in 2002. One lesson he'd quickly...
ARCATA, California: At 1 a.m. on a recent morning in Nairobi, masked police officers broke into the offices of KTN television and The Standard, a Kenyan newspaper, both owned by the Standard Media Group. Commandos with assault rifles seized files and equipment. The printing press was shut down, newspapers were burned, employees terrorized and three reporters were jailed. While the Kenyan president...
It is not uncommon for those in power, in whichever country they reign’, to lose touch with the common man. And while we would not expect US President George W Bush to answer his cell phone to a concerned citizen with a question or genuine concern, in a small community the local political body cannot afford to distance themselves from the people and must give them direct access to the democratic...
WASHINGTON, DC, United States (UPI) -- Reports from Moscow suggest that one of the last independent media outlets in Russia, the business daily Kommersant, is to be bought by the state-controlled Gazprom giant. This is depressing news for supporters of Russian democracy who understand that even the dwindling remnant of Russia`s once-boisterous free press has been an important counter to the...
NPR.org, April 5, 2006 · Hundreds of foreign journalists visit the United States each year at the invitation of the State Department. They visit a variety of newsrooms, meet their American counterparts and see for themselves how our journalism works in Washington, D.C., and in other parts of the country. Last week, five American journalists and academics (including me), were invited to return the...
During the struggle against Saddam Hussein's regime, Kurdish peshmerga fighters sought refuge in the mountains surrounding the northern Iraqi cities of Erbil and Sulaymaniyah. From here the peshmerga launched raids against Iraqi forces. Often accompanying them were the guerilla propagandists of the dominant Kurdish political parties, the Kurdistan Democratic Party, or K.D.P., and the Patriotic...
NIAMEY (Reuters) - Niger said on Tuesday it would deny accreditation to foreign journalists who reported alleged food shortages in the central African state after criticising three BBC journalists for their "negative" coverage. The BBC said on Monday a team of its journalists had their permission to work withdrawn by the government in Niamey after finding evidence of food shortages in the Maradi...
COPENHAGEN, April 4 (Reuters) - A Denmark-based Kurdish television station denied on Tuesday Turkish accusations it was stoking street violence in the southeast of the country and said it sought only to give voice to people Ankara refused to heed. Roj TV head Manouchehr Tahsili Zonoozi said he planned to set up a 24-hour Kurdish language news station -- a proposal likely to further anger Ankara...
New York, April 3, 2006 - Moscow police have arrested journalist Boris Stomakhin after he failed to appear for a June 2004 trial on criminal charges of inciting inter-ethnic hatred in news reports about the war in Chechnya. Stomakhin edits the independent Moscow monthly newspaper Radikalnaya Politika (Radical Politics) and contributes to the pro-independence Chechnya news Web site Kavkaz-Center...
