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BEIRUT: The Gebran Tueni Annual Award, a prize that will be given annually to outstanding journalism students, was kicked off on Saturday at the Press Club in Downtown Beirut. Attended by several political and media representatives, the event also commemorated the passing of one month since the death of Tueni. "This is not some protocol meeting," said the head of the Press Club Youssef Howayek....

PARIS Adapting to competition from the Internet in a downward advertising cycle, the largest U.S.-based newsweeklies have adopted sharply different tactics for the future of their international editions - and none of them involves expansion. Editors at Newsweek, Time and BusinessWeek emphasize their commitment to international coverage. Yet within the last month, staff reductions at Time and...

Kampala - The Ugandan government has ordered all journalists accredited with foreign media to re-register with a new state press agency, the head of the media agency said Saturday. The government was reluctant to accredit a Canadian journalist for participating in talk shows on local radio, the official added. Will Ross, a reporter with the British Broadcasting Service (BBC), had his 12-month...

Described by Reporters Sans Frontieres as "the biggest prison for journalists in the Middle East" -- where, in the last six years, 41 daily newspapers have been banned -- Iran has long lacked a public forum for independent voices. But it hasn't been immune to the user-driven web revolution. In April 2003, Iran became the first government to imprison a blogger: Sina Motallebi of the popular weblog...

The liberal coverage of Islam by a large section of the international media is both a negative and positive phenomenon. It is apparent that the media provide fora for discussions on the meaning, scope and applicability of Islam. And, to a large extent, the discussants, among whom can be found Muslims, always attempt to explore the various arguments over the multifarious definitions, essence and...

The Moscow City Court trying three Chechens charged with murdering Paul Klebnikov has postponed the trial by a week even as the three accused pleaded not guilty when the trial began behind closed doors in Moscow, report agencies. SMILES OF ANOTHER DAY: The editor of Forbes magazine's Russian edition Paul Klebnikov speaks at a news conference to mark the edition of the Forbes magazine issue 'The

Azerbaijani journalists are demanding that the authorities report on progress made in the investigation into the murder of Elmar Huseynov, according to Radio Free Europe / Radio Liberty (RFE/RL). Huseynov, Editor-in-Chief of the opposition news magazine Monitor, was assassinated in Baku in March 2005. JUSTICE DELAYED: Elmar Huseynov was gunned down in his apartment building in capital Baku on

MOSCOW, January 11 (RIA Novosti) - The widow of a Ukrainian investigative journalist whose murder became a focal point in the "orange revolution" that swept new authorities to power in 2004 said Wednesday she was unhappy with how the investigation into his killing was proceeding. Myroslava Gongadze, whose husband Heorhiy vanished in 2000 before his headless body was later found in a forest, told...

A Norwegian Christian magazine has published a set of controversial caricatures of the prophet Mohammed after months of uproar in the Muslim world over a Danish paper's decision to print the same cartoons, according to Al-Jazeera. LIGHT HIS FIRE: Danish preacher Moses Hansen heads a Christian demonstration in the street in Copenhagen Tuesday, January 10. Denmark's prime minister Tuesday accused a

The high-profile trial of three former police officers accused of involvement in the 2000 assassination of journalist Heorhiy Gongadze has been adjourned till January 23. The Kiev Appeals Court announced the decision after one of the defendants – former Interior Ministry officer Mykola Protasov – reportedly felt faint in the courtroom. AWAITING JUSTICE: Myroslava Gongadze is seen in the Kiev's