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AMMAN, Jordan, 29 June 2007 – Mohammad’s TV show, ‘Sabah El Kheir Mosul’ (Good Morning Mosul), is different than most Iraqi news programmes. To balance the grim daily reports of bombings and violence, Mohammad, 28, is trying a new focus – the lives of children. “I used to dream of being a children’s cartoonist,” said Mohammad. “But the war has made this job very hard. So for now I am satisfied...

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian investigators ruled out foul play on Friday in the death of a journalist who was investigating arms deals shortly before he fell from a window in his apartment building. But the Kommersant newspaper where the journalist, Ivan Safronov, worked said it believed the official investigation had not been thorough enough. Safronov's colleagues have treated his death with...

New York, June 29, 2007—The Committee to Protect Journalist is concerned about an attack reported by Nukri Kacharava, a camera operator for the independent Georgian television station Mze, who said Russian military officers assaulted him and confiscated his equipment as he was filming their move out of a Russian military base in Batumi, capital of the southwest Georgian republic of Adjara...

New York, June 29, 2007—Three rooms in the headquartersof Shacab, an independent newspaper in northeast Somalia’s semi-autonomous region of Puntland, were damaged Wednesday night after assailants threw gasoline-fueled bombs, according to local news reports and the National Union of Somali Journalists (NUSJ). One man was arrested after being identified by a security guard and other eyewitnesses...

Reporters Without Borders voiced alarm today at the threats and physical attacks against two journalists by demonstrators on 22 June in Maimón, in the central province of Monseñor Nouel, saying it was astonished by the government’s failure to react to an increase in this kind of incident since the start of the year and to the resulting impact on press freedom. “The National Union of Press Workers...

(MISA/IFEX) - On 19 June 2007, a case in which the privately owned "Nation" magazine is being sued for E5 million (approx. US$ 750,000) by a Mbabane businessman for alleged defamation, resumed at the Swaziland High Court. However, the case could not proceed as "Nation" raised an objection around supplementary papers filed by the applicant, businessman Kareem Ashraff. Lawyer Bob Sigwane...

CNN.com is to drop its paid-access live video service from Sunday as part of a major overhaul of its international website. The revamped site will be entirely free, featuring new personalisation options, user-generated content, links to other sites and aggregated comment, with the aim of making the cable news network a "good web citizen". The subscription service Pipeline, which currently costs...

BAGHDAD (AFP) - Three more Iraqi journalists have been killed in attacks across Iraq in the last three weeks, the Paris-based media watchdog Reporters Without Borders said Thursday.As more and more media outlets relocate to neighbouring countries and the Kurdish north "their local correspondents are left without any protection and their killers continue to operate with impunity," it said in a...

BEIJING - A Chinese mine boss has been convicted and sentenced to life in prison in the beating death of a reporter, a court official said Thursday, a high-profile case that prompted an unusual intervention by President Hu Jintao.Hou Zhenrun, the head of a small unlicensed mine outside the northern city of Datong, was accused of organizing a gang of five men to beat reporter Lan Chengzhang and his...

MOSCOW: Fatima Tlisova had been beaten, harassed and, she suspects, poisoned while working as a journalist in Russia. But she finally decided to flee the country the day she sent her 16-year-old son on an errand last year and he didn't come back. Tlisova later tracked him down at a police station in the custody of drunken officers who said they'd put the boy's name on a list of suspicious people —...