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KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 17 (Bernama) -- Many news agencies of countries in the Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) have failed to function effectively in disseminating news and information, let alone compete with international news agencies, a journalism professor said Thursday. Prof. Dr Mohd Safar Hasim, who chairs Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia's Centre of Media and Communication Studies, cited the economic...

Turkey's Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan boycotted a planned press conference with his Danish counterpart on Tuesday in protest over the presence of a journalist he said was linked to Kurdish separatist guerrillas, according to a Reuters report. Danish Prime Minister Anders Fogh Rasmussen stands next to an empty lectern Tuesday November 15, 2005 during what was to be a joint press conference with

(November 16, 2005) -- "If the leading newspapers lose their capacity to report and conduct inquiries, the American public will become even more susceptible to the manipulations and deceptions of those in power." --Michael Massing, "The End of News?," New York Review of Books, Dec. 1, 2005 It's not easy to be in the newspaper business these days. I probably don't need to provide the details why...

Fifty-one journalists have been killed so far this year and more than 500 arrested, making 2005 a dark year, the World Association of Newspapers said Monday in its annual review of press freedom worldwide. North Koreans read a newspaper at the Yonggwang underground station – which means glory station – in the North Korean capital Pyongyang October 17, 2005. Little or no information on the

The World Association of Newspapers (WAN) has called on the summit meeting of the Islamic Conference in December to drop from its agenda an item concerning caricatures of Mohammed that were published in a Danish newspaper. NOT THAT FUNNY: Muslim religious leaders in Denmark, who saw the cartoons as an insult to Islam and the prophet called on the conservative daily to withdraw the cartoons and to

A prominent media organisation has warned of tougher times ahead for free expression in Zambia. The editor of the country's only privately-owned newspaper was recently arrested for criticising Zambian President Levy Mwanawasa. Fred M'membe (c): Levy's reaction to Dr Kenneth Kaunda's humble advice makes us question this man's suitability for president and his capacity to think and reason in a more

Abdullatif Al Sayegh, chief executive of Arab Media Group, publishers of Emirates Today, Al Bayan and Al Emarat Al Youm, told delegates at the GulfMarketing Forum that his journalists had the freedom to write what they wanted – but only within limits. He said: "I think we have it. It’s just that the Government needed to see people who would treat freedom of the press to the advantage of the...

An independent journalist in Uzbekistan was ambushed and assaulted on Monday last by a group of unidentified men, the latest attack in a worsening environment for government critics since the May 13 massacre in Andizhan, a city in eastern Uzbekistan, Human Rights Watch has said. Alexei Volosevich, a 38-year-old reporter for the pro-opposition website fergana.ru stands covered with paint in front

Stories about nature in all its complexity, from the impact of climate change to the frontiers of cosmology to the mysterious stranding of dolphins in a Florida mangrove swamp, are among the winners of the 2005 Science Journalism Awards from the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS), a press release issued by the association said on Tuesday. Independent panels of science

A group of Russian deputies loyal to President Putin are seeking to bring NGOs, especially those funded with foreign money, under state control. Draft amendments to three existing laws would curb the whole strata of independent civil society, say reports in the Moscow Times and Financial Times. The move comes ahead of next year's national elections and could end in the closure of Mikhail...