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Google would normally be the last company you’d expect to be talking up the unlocked value of print advertising. But at a time when the troubled newspaper industry is struggling to hold on to advertisers, the search giant is in the early stages of a partnership with publishers such as the New York Times Co. (nyse: NYT - news - people ) and Tribune (nyse: TRB - news - people ) to sell print ads in...

(FOPEA /IFEX) - On May 8 2007, freelance photographer Juan Bolaños was assaulted by security forces while covering a protest against the provincial government in Rio Gallegos, a city in Santa Cruz province in Argentina's southern Patagonian region. In a separate incident, in the midst of an increasingly tense political situation at the national level, on 25 April supporters of a candidate for...

(MEAA/IFEX) - The Media Alliance has written to the federal government protesting a decision to ban online politics and media commentary site http://www.crikey.com.au from the annual budget lockup. This is the third year Crikey, which has a subscription base of 45,000, has been barred from the handing down of the federal budget. Crikey has an accredited journalist within the federal press gallery...

(WiPC/IFEX) - The Writers in Prison Committee of International PEN is delighted by the 8 May 2007 news that journalist and human rights defender, Umida Niyazova, who was sentenced to seven years in prison on 1 May 2007, has had her sentence reduced to a suspended term by an appeal court. According to a report on Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, she has been released. On 1 May, Sergely District...

Since the death of Anna Politkovskaya, indictments of the Kremlin's attitudes to press freedom have proved increasingly uncomfortable for the authorities. Maria Yulikova of the Committee to Protect Journalists reports. Freedom House’s annual report Freedom of the Press, released last month, caused an outcry over the state of local media in Russia. Freedom House, a leading American civil rights...

LAHORE: There has been a major escalation in the incidents of attacks on media in general, including government attempts to muzzle the media, in Pakistan during May 3, 2006, to May 3, 2007, but the broadcast media in particular wrote a chapter in defiance by asserting itself despite the rising intimidation it faced, according to the Annual State of Pakistan Media Report 2006-07 released by...

CAIRO -- Journalists from five Arab countries are to launch a media watchdog group in reaction to what they call increased restrictions on press workers in the region, its founders said Tuesday. Twenty reporters from Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Morocco, and Libya will launch the Cairo-based Free Media Workers Union in June, an initiative supported by Egyptian-American sociologist and human rights...

(PPF/IFEX) - Cable networks in major cities of Pakistan's southern Sindh province suspended the transmissions of three leading television news channels for six hours on 5 May 2007. The transmissions of Geo, ARY and Aaj television networks were suspended in Karachi, Hyderabad, Nawabshah, Sukkur and Mirpurkhas. Despite its denials, it is widely believed that transmissions were suspended at the...

The National Union of Somali Journalists (NUSOJ) is today protesting over the arrest of Radio Reporter in Afgoye district of Lower Shabelle region by local authorities. Journalist Hassan Mayow Hassan of Radio Shabelle was arrested Monday morning, 7 May 2007, by the police in Afgoye after the district commissioner ordered the police's action. The motivation behind the arrest was not officially...

New York, May 7, 2007—Brazilian journalist Luiz Carlos Barbon Filho, known for investigative reporting that exposed political corruption, was gunned down on Saturday evening in the southern state of São Paulo. The Committee to Protect Journalists called on Brazilian authorities today to thoroughly investigate the murder and bring those responsible to justice. “We offer our deepest condolences to...