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Press freedom organisations have hailed the Tokyo High Court's decision overturning the city federal court's action against a journalist on national TV and radio NHK for refusing to reveal his sources. The high court ruling on March 17, 2006 was similar to one taken by the Niigata federal court in October 2005, which upheld his right not to reveal the sources which allowed him to report on a case

There is a yawning gap in the level of press freedom experienced by Brazil's national media and the media in the provinces, which have been subjected to a lot of violence as well as harassment and abuse of power by local officials in so far this year. ATTENTION READER: Locals reading a newspaper at a kiosk in Brazil. "The governments of the states where journalists are most exposed should, as a

If the harassment of journalists in the run-up to the presidential election in Belarus was not enough, the regime has upstaged itself in its intensified crackdown against independent journalists with the arrest of many more, bringing to 22 the number rounded up since the start of the week, 19 of whom are still in prison. READY TO STORM: Supporters of Opposition leader Alexander Milinkevich gather

The syndicate council composed of 12 members as well as members of various political parties have begun to defend journalists from the abuse they have received at the hands of official groups. Mahbub Ali announced his resignation that was refused by the government last week. The campaign against the journalist syndicate began via news sites connected with the military. The government rephrased the...

Lawmaker Hisayasu Nagata revealed Friday that Takashi Nishizawa, a freelance journalist who later published a magazine, was the source of what was supposed to be an explosive e-mail showing a cash link between Livedoor Co. and a son of the Liberal Democratic Party secretary general. "I have kept his name secret until now as part of my efforts to protect my source. But once it became clear I was...

PESHAWAR, Pakistan – The family of a Pakistani journalist kidnapped in December said Thursday that they believe he could be in U.S. custody. Hayatullah Khan was abducted at gunpoint in the volatile North Waziristan tribal region Dec. 5 by armed, masked men whom a witness at the time described as dressed like fighters from the ousted Taliban regime of Afghanistan. But Ihsanullah Khan, the victim's...

I don't so much mind that newspapers are dying -- it's watching them commit suicide that pisses me off. Let's use this as a handy exercise in journalism. What is the unexamined assumption here? That the newspaper business is dying. Is it? In 2005, publicly traded U.S. newspaper publishers reported operating profit margins of 19.2 percent, down from 21 percent in 2004, according to The Wall Street...

NEW YORK: When The New York Times ran Kurt Eichenwald's Dec. 19 story about a 13-year-old who used his computer to sell sex acts over the Internet, the paper not only ran the piece on its Web site, it also included a Web-only essay and a video interview with the boy. One month later on the opposite coast, Kevin Fagan of the San Francisco Chronicle served as a media witness at an execution, then...

New York -- The Committee to Protect Journalists today condemned the detention and prosecution of a Kurdish journalist who was seized by Kurdish security forces in northern Iraq. On March 17, security forces affiliated with the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) arrested Hawez Hawezi, a 31-year-old high school teacher who also writes for the independent Kurdish weekly Hawlati, at his home in Koya...

New York, March 22, 2006–The Committee to Protect Journalists today condemned the detention and prosecution of a Kurdish journalist, who was seized by Kurdish security forces in northern Iraq. On March 17, security forces affiliated with the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) arrested Hawez Hawezi, a 31-year-old high school teacher who also writes for the independent Kurdish weekly Hawlati, at his...