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A Somali radio journalist was gunned down Friday — the seventh journalist to be killed in a crisis where reporters have become prime targets in spreading violence. Somali police display an arms cache in Mogadishu, 20 August 2007. Eight people were killed in overnight clashes here between rebels and Somali government forces, police said Friday, as a Somali radio journalist was shot dead in the...

(MFWA/IFEX) - On 21 August 2007, Attorney General and Minister of Justice, Fred Carew, discontinued criminal proceedings against Philip Neville, editor of the "Standard Times", a privately-owned Freetown-based daily newspaper. A MFWA correspondent reported that President Ahmed Tejan Kabbah ordered the trial to be discontinued after the newspaper had fulfilled a number of conditions laid down by...

Former government member Janusz Kaczmarek, who was fired as interior minister earlier this month, reportedly told a behind-closed-doors meeting of the parliamentary commission for the secret services on 22 August that the phones of journalists critical of the government were tapped on the orders of justice minister Zbigniew Ziobro and Prime Minister Jaroslaw Kaczynski. “It is unacceptable that a...

The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) today said the injuries sustained by two journalists embedded with Canadian troops in Afghanistan were a further indication of the dangers facing media staff in conflict zones – even for those travelling under the protection of armed forces. “This attack shows the perilous reality of embedded journalism,” said Aidan White, IFJ General Secretary....

A Franco-Canadian journalist who went missing in Ivory Coast three years ago was abducted and murdered, a man claiming to be a witness told French television in an interview to be aired Thursday. The independent journalist, Guy-Andre Kieffer, disappeared in Abidjan in April 2004 while investigating corruption in Ivory Coast's important cocoa industry. The French investigation has concluded that

As Moldova prepares to celebrate its Independence Day on 27 August, Reporters Without Borders points out that this year has been marked by many violations of journalists’ rights and a parliamentary resolution on press freedom proposed by the opposition last month was unfortunately rejected. “We condemn the Moldovan ruling party’s recent rejection of the possibility of making concrete improvements...

Radio reporter Tito Alberto Palma was shot to death Wednesday night at a friend’s house in Paraguay’s southeastern city of Mayor Otaño. Palma, a reporter for the local radio station Mayor Otaño and correspondent for the Asunción-based Radio Chaco Boreal, was having dinner at a friend’s home when two armed individuals in camouflage broke in at 10:40 p.m., according to press reports and

Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki has rejected a bill that would have forced editors to name their sources if their stories led to court cases. Kibaki declined to sign Kenya’s Media Bill after calling an amendment within it “a great inhibition of press freedom” that could “undermine the [country’s] democratic strides,” according to an official statement posted on the website of Kenya’s

Reporters Without Borders voiced concern today about deputy information minister Alyaksandr Slabadchuk’s announcement on 20 August that a working group is being set up to look at the “Internet’s legal regulation.” The announcement came two weeks after President Alexander Lukashenko threatened to put an end to “anarchy” on the Internet. “We are alarmed that the authorities have decided to pursue...

Audiences are now more in control than ever over their digital media and entertainment habits and increasingly savvy about filtering marketing messages, a recent survey has concluded. Consumers are seeking consolidated, trustworthy content, recognition and community when it comes to mobile and Internet entertainment. Armed with PC, mobile and interactive content and tools, consumers are vying for