Posted by Julie Tomlin on 31 January 2008 at 11:51
Tags: Broadcast, Television
Yemen’s president during his visit to Spain will call for the release of an Al-Jazeera journalist jailed for seven years for collaborating with Al-Qaeda, AFP reports.
Al-Jazeera television reporter Tayssir Allouni was imprisoned by a Spanish court in 2005 after he was found guilty of acting as a financial courier to Al-Qaeda while in Afghanistan.
Allouni, Al [...]
Posted by Julie Tomlin on 31 January 2008 at 11:08
Tags: Uncategorized
Reporters Without Borders has described as an “African gulag” Eritrea’s secret prison where at least four journalists, including award winning Seyoum Tsehaye are being held.
Tsehaye who is said to be in Eiraeiro prison camp was arrested with around 12 newspaper publishers and editors in a 2001 round-up ordered by President Issaias Afeworki. He went missing [...]
Posted by Julie Tomlin on 31 January 2008 at 10:39
Tags: Journalism
The International Journalists Network links to a report by the Center for International Private Enterprise criticising the current economic and business reporting of journalists in Kyrgyzstan.
Although the Central Asian country achieved independence from Russia in 1991 its established journalists in the field “retain a Soviet mindset unchallenged by the fresh perspectives of younger journalists” the [...]
Posted by Julie Tomlin on 30 January 2008 at 17:30
Tags: Journalism
The Afghan reporter Sayed Parwez Kaambakhsh has told the Institute of War and Peace Reporting that he was coerced into signing the confession on the basis of which he has been sentenced to death for blasphemy.
Hafizullah Gardesh writes from Kabul that analysts and media rights advocates claim that the harsh sentence was delivered “as [...]
Posted by Julie Tomlin on 30 January 2008 at 17:05
Tags: Uncategorized
A cameraman and his driver were killed by a roadside bomb attack north of Baghdad on Tuesday, Reuters reported.
Aala Abdul-Kareem, who worked for the al-Furat TV channel, run by the Shi’ite Supreme Islamic Iraqi Council died after the attack near the town of Balad, 80 km (50 miles) north of Baghdad.
Abdul-Kareem is the first journalist [...]
Posted by Julie Tomlin on 30 January 2008 at 15:33
Tags: Uncategorized
Sri Lanka’s Free Media Movement (FMM) has condemned a public statement by the Defense Secretary Gotabhaya Rajapaksha in which he supported media censorship and the return of criminal defamation.
“We fear that this chilling warning from a Defense Secretary with unbridled power without, evidently, sound judgment, is the latest significant threat to the freedom of expression [...]
Posted by Julie Tomlin on 29 January 2008 at 06:12
Tags: Uncategorized
Somali journalist Hassan Kafi Hared was killed on 28 January when a mine exploded on a road in southern Somalia. A driver and two doctors were also killed.
Reporters Without Borders reports that the Kenyan and French doctors, and their Somali driver were killed when a bomb was set off by remote control. Hared was walking [...]
Posted by Julie Tomlin on 24 January 2008 at 11:01
Tags: Journalism
A court in northern Afghanistan has sentenced local journalist Sayed Parvez Kambakhsh to death after he was found guilty of blasphemy and misrepresenting the verses of the Quran.
Continue ReadingPosted by Julie Tomlin on 24 January 2008 at 10:26
Tags: Uncategorized
A proposal to define a news site with an average of 50,000 hits or more per day as a “newspaper” and therefore liable for all comments posted on the site is examined by Gilad Lotan on Global Voices.
Posted by Julie Tomlin on 22 January 2008 at 17:22
Tags: Uncategorized
Foreign journalists are waiting to see if they will be allowed into Zimbabwe after laws that have led to them being denied visas and state media accreditation to visit the country were relaxed, AP reports.
Continue ReadingPosted by Julie Tomlin on 18 January 2008 at 15:17
Tags: Uncategorized
Sami al-Haj, an Al Jazeera journalist who has been in Guantanamo since he was captured by Pakistani authorities on the Afghan border in December 2001 and turned over to U.S. forces has written about his plight in a letter released on 16 January.
Al-Hal, a Somalian, has been on hunger strike since January 2007 ans is being [...]
Posted by Julie Tomlin on 18 January 2008 at 11:20
Tags: Uncategorized
Natalia Morari, an investigative journalist with the Russian magazine The New Times, has said she would appeal the ban on her entry to Russia.
Morari, a Moldovan citizen who was prevented from entering Russia at Moscow’s Domodedovo airport on 15 December said she would file a suit in Moscow court after the ban was confirmed by Russian [...]
Posted by Julie Tomlin on 18 January 2008 at 11:18
Tags: Journalism
South African journalist Hein Coetzee was arrested after he had reported complaints that police had assaulted them and threatened them with firearms, during a raid on 13 January.
A journalist for the Kaapse Son, a daily tabloid for Afrikaans-speaking people in the Western Cape, Coetzee was arrested after he had reported the incident and was following a lead from [...]
Posted by Julie Tomlin on 18 January 2008 at 10:13
Tags: Journalism
Mediachannel.org, the website set up in 2000 by former CBS and ABC producer Danny Schechter has been taken over by international media research company Media Tenor.
Schechter who currently blogs as the News Dissector, will continue remain a contributor and blogger for the site, the press release says, as will co-founder Rory O’Connor, who oversees the site and [...]
Posted by Julie Tomlin on 17 January 2008 at 13:08
Tags: Journalism
French journalists are concerned that president Nicholas Sarkozy’s appetite for managing the media and his friendships among the media establishment could stifle press freedom, the BBC’s Paris correspondent Emma Kirby writes.
Kirby’s piece follows a news item on the Today programme on 12 January, the day that Sarkozy was due to welcome former PM Tony Blair, recent romance with pop star [...]
Posted by Julie Tomlin on 16 January 2008 at 16:00
Tags: Journalism
US journalist Rob Wagner gives his take on the female journalist movement in Saudi Arabia, claiming things are further on than the journalist describes Hana’ Al-Khamri on Menassat.com.
Continue ReadingPosted by Julie Tomlin on 16 January 2008 at 14:29
Tags: Journalism
US journalist Nicholas Schmidle, who was deported from Pakistan, told the BBC that he had been told his visa was cancelled because he was “writing against Pakistan”.
Continue ReadingPosted by Julie Tomlin on 15 January 2008 at 12:34
Tags: Journalism
The manager of privately-owned Somaliweyn Radio, and one of its journalists were arrested by government security forces yesterday in Mogadishu on 13 January.
According to Reporters Without Borders, a unit from the transitional federal government’s National Security Agency stormed into the studios of Radio Somaliweyn and arrested journalist Bashir Mohammed Abdulkadir. When the station’s manager Abdirahman Mohamed [...]
Posted by Julie Tomlin on 15 January 2008 at 12:12
Tags: Journalism
Arab media website menassat.com outlines the problems faced by women journalists in Saudi Arabia - they are not allowed to drive and frequently not allowed to attend press conferences because they have to work in separate rooms to men.
Posted by Julie Tomlin on 15 January 2008 at 11:11
Tags: Journalism
A reporter for Norwegian newspaper Dagbladet, Carsten Thomassen, was killed in a terrorist attack in Kabul on 14 January.
Thomassen, who was accompanying Norwegian foreign minister on his visit to Afghanistan, was shot, along with several others, when terrorists stormed the hotel where the Norwegian delegation was staying.
Colleagues tried to save his life when they found [...]
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