MEXICO CITY – Dozens of Mexican newspapers frustrated by fruitless police probes of slain and missing journalists simultaneously published the first in a series of reports on the cases Monday. Monday's article in Mexican and U.S.-based Spanish-language newspapers focused on the April 2005 disappearance of Alfredo Jimenez Mota, 26, who covered drug trafficking for El Imparcial, the daily newspaper...
LONDON: Business travelers in Europe may spot a new magazine this week at airport newsstands, alongside august titles like The Economist and The Harvard Business Review. World Business, an unusual partnership between Haymarket Publishing, a London-based magazine house, and the international business school Insead, made its debut in Britain last week and is moving into Europe and other markets this...
Three colleagues in a software company discover a common bond with Bengali little magazines. What do they do? Build a website to preserve Bengali little magazines, of course. Srishtisandhan ( www.srishtisandhan.com) started as a small project by software professionals Gopal Krishna Ghosh, Bhaskar Mukherjee and Purbasa Dutta, in 2003. "Each of us was related to the world of little magazines in some...
The Muhammad cartoon controversy greatly increased the amount of anti-Semitic material in Arab and Muslim newspapers, according to a report issued by the Anti-Defamation League over the weekend. The report highlighted cartoons and opinion pieces that demonized Jews, Israel and the Holocaust in media across the Arab world and in Iran. The publications cited depicted Jews in "outrageous and deeply...
DUBAI, United Arab Emirates -- On his last visit to Iran, Canadian-based blogger Hossein Derakhshan was detained and interrogated, then forced to sign a letter of apology for his blog writings before being allowed to leave the country. Compared to others, Mr. Derakhshan is lucky. Dozens of Iranian bloggers over the last two years have faced harassment by the government, been arrested for voicing...
PORT-AU-PRINCE - An international journalism organization urged President-elect René Préval to reopen a stalled investigation into the slaying of Haiti's most prominent journalist, saying Friday that efforts to solve the case have been a ``scandal.'' Jean Dominique, a radio journalist who was increasingly critical of ousted President Jean-Bertrand Aristide's government, was gunned down with an...
MOSCOW – An American journalist said Saturday that interrogators alleging she has information about attacks in southern Russia have confiscated her notebooks, tapes and computer hard drives, threatened her and subjected her to long rounds of questioning. Kelly McEvers, a 35-year-old, New York-based freelance journalist, arrived in the southern region of Dagestan two weeks ago to research the...
MANILA: The Philippine press, one of the most vigorous and free-wheeling in Asia, is coming under serious government pressure for the first time since the martial law government of Ferdinand Marcos more than 20 years ago. Along with hints that the authorities might restrict public assembly, the campaign against the press strikes at the heart of the freedoms that were won in 1986 when Marcos was...
Reporters Without Borders described as "very thin", evidence of "extortion" produced against two journalists on which a Tbilissi court on 29 March sentenced Chalva Ramishvili, co-founder of independent TV station 202 and managing editor David Kokhreidze, to respectively four and three years in prison. The authorities accused them of having blackmailed a deputy in the ruling party, Koba Bekaouri...
Reporters Without Borders today called for the immediate release of Syrian journalist Ali Abdallah and his son Mohammad, who were arrested at their home in Ktene, south of Damascus, on 23 March without any explanation being given. "We firmly condemn the arbitrary arrest of Abdallah for the second time in a year," the press freedom organisation said. "We are all the more concerned as we do not know...
