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The prophet cartoon frenzy is finally here in India. The Indian Prime Minister has expressed his "anguish" to his Danish counterpart even as protestors on Monday shut down Kashmir Valley and clashed with the police in capital New Delhi. FIRED UP: Protesting students of Jamia Milia Islamia University burn copies of a magazine, which published a photograph of a Koranic verse tattooed on a womans

A Russian journalist has ben convicted of provoking racial hatred for publishing articles by Chechen rebel leaders calling for an end to the Chechen war. Stanislav Dmitrievsky, head of the Russian-Chechen Friendship Society and editor of the Pravozashchita publication, received a two-year suspended sentence in the case on January 3. PEACENIK: Stanislav Dmitriyevsky, head of the Russian-Chechen

LOS ANGELES (Hollywood Reporter) - Once upon a time, you checked your local newspaper's film critic for advice about what to see on any given weekend. Or maybe you read the New York Times, Entertainment Weekly or the New Yorker, or checked out TV critics with national clout such as Roger Ebert or Gene Shalit. Not anymore. With the advent of the Internet, geography is history. Today, more than 90%...

Reporters sans Frontières (RSF) has voiced shock at the murder of journalist Ronald Waddell, a former talk-show host on HBTV Channel 9, who was gunned down outside his home in a Georgetown suburb on January 30. Waddell was also an opposition activist who was outspoken in his criticism of the current government. As Waddell was getting into his car in the garage of his home at about 8 pm, two men

The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) have criticised four new public service broadcasting regulations as a tool that will impinge upon the public’s right to freedom of information in Indonesia. The new rules will come into effect on February 6, two months after the government agreed to a postponement due to media outcry. Based upon the Broadcasting Law of 2002, the regulations...

HONG KONG, Feb. 2 (Xinhuanet) -- Hong Kong newspapers have carried editorials in the past few days, criticizing Taiwan authority leader Chen Shui-bian's recent "Taiwan independence" remarks. Chen Shui-bian proposed on Jan. 29 in his lunar new year speech abolishing the "National Unification Council (NUC) and the National Unification Guidelines" and "applying for United Nations membership under the...

One of Zimbabwe’s last remaining independent newspapers ‘The Zimbabwe Independent’ has allegedly been blackmailed into retracting an accurate story in order to secure accreditation for its journalists. Tafataona Mahoso, the Head of the Media and Information Commission (MIC), told the paper it would not get accreditation for its journalists if it did not retract a story quoting an MIC commissioner...

(CPJ/IFEX) - New York, February 1, 2006 - French authorities have jailed an Ivoirian army officer in connection with the 2004 disappearance in Ivory Coast of journalist Guy-André Kieffer, according to Kieffer's wife and Agence France-Presse. Osange Silou-Kieffer told CPJ today that Capt. Jean-Tony Oulaï was arrested on January 11 in Paris and is being questioned by a French judge investigating...

The newspaper, magazine and book publishing industries have come together to explore ways to challenge the exploitation of content by search engines without fair compensation to copyright owners. A task force of global and European publishers organisations, led by the World Association of Newspapers (WAN), has agreed to work together to examine the options open to publishers to assert their rights...

DOHA: The motion "This House believes that Arab media needs no lessons in journalism from the West" was defeated with a majority of 68.3 per cent votes at the Qatar Foundation's Doha Debates yesterday. A host of controversial issues in journalism ranging from the Al Qaeda tapes to the Danish cartoons on Prophet Mohammed (PBUH) were raised at the lively and enlightening debate. Speaking for the...