A few days ago, the Uganda government "revised" the accreditation for Will Ross, the BBC’s correspondent in Kampala, from 12 months down to four. Freelance journalist Blake Lambert, who has reported from Uganda for the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, the Economist, and other news outlets, has been checking the mailbox for his accreditation, but the authorities have not posted it. Information...
Former In-Nazzjon editor Joseph Zahra and In-Nazzjon journalist Joe Mikallef were ordered to pay a total of Lm600, after a court upheld an appeal made by former Maltese High Commissioner Richard Matrenza with regard to a libel suit. Mr Matrenza had filed a libel suit regarding an article published on the 7 January 1999 edition of In-Nazzjon. He claimed the article, entitled £1,687 for sheets and...
"You guys are bad for democracy. You are jeopardising our democracy." The bombshell was dropped on a private media reporter of the Botswana Gazatte, by the MoE Minister. Hon. Jacob Nkate. The Minister’s interview with the reporter raises awkward questions on the health of our democracy. Batswana must remember, that all the dictators and all the enemies of democracy, start with the private media...
The Editor-In-Chief of the Parrot Newspaper, Alfred Kaine narrowly escaped death when he was attacked and brutalized by four thugs last Saturday night on 11th Street in Sinkor in the area adjacent the Sarafina Communications Building. According to the Parrot Editor-In-Chief, his attackers, who were on board a Toyota Pathfinder four wheel drive vehicle, trailed him from the Capital Bye Pass through...
NEW YORK Although newspapers are read only a few times a day and for brief periods each time, compared to other media, that time is relatively uninterrupted by other activities, a recent study by Ball State University's Middletown Media Studies reported today. Sixty-eight percent of the time test subjects spent with newspapers was without competition from other activities, compared to 53.8% for...
The editor of the Moroccan weekly newspaper Akhbar Al Ousboue , Adil Tadili, was liberated Saturday after having spent 22 months in jail for many press offences, reported MAP news agency. On April 15, 2004, Tadili was incarcerated in Rabat after being summoned to Rabat police headquarters for a legal matter dating back to 1994. Tadili was sentenced to pay a fine of MAD 3 million for evading...
CAIRO – The newspaper of Egypt’s oldest opposition party has stopped publishing for the first time in more than 20 years amid a leadership dispute that has paralysed the party, officials said yesterday. Al Wafd daily did not appear on newsstands on Friday for the first time since 1984. The liberal Al Wafd party was established in 1922, banned with other parties in 1954 and made its comeback in...
30 January 2006 The head of the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) today condemned the murders of an Iraqi television journalist reporting on fighting in the city of Ramadi and two Philippine journalists gunned down in their own towns. "I deplore the death of Mahmoud Za'al. All too many journalists have been dying in Iraq," UNESCO Director-General Koïchiro...
Hiring bodyguards is standard fare for anyone in a high-profile position in Russia, but when American journalist Paul Klebnikov arrived in Moscow in 2004 to become editor of the Russian-language edition of Forbes magazine, he decided against it. Klebnikov, 41, believed Russia had changed, that the free-for-all days of the 1990s were over. He told friends and family that having a bodyguard seemed...
AMMAN, 29 January (IRIN) - Human right activists have called on the government to drop charges filed against the editor of an opposition party website for posting articles written by parliamentarians more than a year ago. "We want freedom of press as high as the sky, as King Abdullah said recently," said Nidal Mansour, director of the Centre for Defending the Freedom of Journalists (CDFJ). "But...
