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British photographer Paul Conroy and French reporter Edith Bouvier, wounded in an attack in Syria that killed two other journalists last week, have been smuggled out of the country and are now safe in Lebanon, French President Nicolas Sarkozy said Tuesday. Syrian activists risked their lives for six nights to smuggle Conroy to Lebanon, a spokesman for Avaaz, an international [...]
A journalist of a leading Bengali news channel Tuesday alleged he was beaten up in Jadavpur area of Kolkata by supporters of the ruling Trinamool Congress. Partha Pratim Ghosh said he was beaten up when he tried to capture on video the ransacking of a CPI-M (Communist Party of India-Marxist) local party office. “When I visited the spot, Trinamool supporters [...]
Media persons Tuesday continued to boycott proceedings in the Jammu and Kashmir legislature in protest against assembly Speaker Mohammad Akbar Lone’s controversial remarks made the previous day. Over 100 media persons were staging a sit-in outside the main gate of the state assembly demanding that the speaker “take back” his remarks about the media. Lone had Monday said that the [...]
latest report on connected device usage in Latin America from comScore Device Essentials. The report found that non-computer devices (including mobile phones, tablets, and other connected devices) accounted for an average of 2.6 percent of all web browsing activity across the 10 Latin American markets included in the study. When looking at non-computer traffic, Brazil had the highest percentage of web [...]
An overview of Internet usage in Europe, showing that 379.4 million Europeans went online in November 2011 for an average of 27.8 hours per person. This release highlights Internet usage in 49 European markets aggregated into the European region and provides individual reporting on 18 markets. Amongst its findings, the study also showed that 47.8 percent of Europeans visit Newspaper [...]
Media persons boycotted the proceedings of the Jammu and Kashmir legislature Monday in protest over the remark of Speaker Mohammad Akbar Lone. The media persons are demanding that Lone should “take back” his remark that the “media during the assembly session works under my control”. His remarks came after Law and Parliamentary Affairs Minister Ali Mohammad Sagar expressed his reservations [...]
A Pakistani daily has called on the media to “stand firm in the face of power and coercion” as it says the government plans to impose curbs on them. Saying it has “alarming news”, an editorial in the News International Sunday cited reports as saying that the Pakistan Peoples Party government has plans to impose tough curbs on the media [...]
Rejecting any attempt to impose censorship, Information and Broadcasting Minister Ambika Soni Friday urged the media industry to “give the self-regulation process some time” to establish its credibility and hoped that “something positive” will come out of this process. Stressing that she was against any outside censorship or control over media, Soni called for regulation by the media industry itself. [...]
Press Council of India (PCI) chairman Markandey Katju said Friday that there was no press freedom in Bihar while this was not the case when Lalu Prasad was the chief minister. “I heard that there is improvement in law and order in Bihar under (Chief Minister) Nitish Kumar but there is no press freedom,” Katju said at a function here. [...]
Gannett, the largest newspaper publisher in the US, at the end of the year will begin charging for access to online editions of its papers. The measure will not include the group’s national daily, USA Today. Gannett spokesperson Laura Dalton told EFE Thursday that the firm had not yet determined how much the charge will be. With the new plan [...]
A Mumbai-based woman journalist, Jigna Vora, was Tuesday chargesheeted in connection with the murder of senior scribe Jyotirmoy Dey in June last year, police said adding their professional rivalry could have claimed his life. “We have filed a supplementary chargesheet against Vora today (Tuesday) in the MCOCA court. In the chargesheet, we have listed enough evidence against her to make [...]
Mumbai Police Tuesday filed a chargesheet against woman journalist Jigna Vora in connection with the murder of senior scribe Jyotirmoy Dey who was shot dead in June last year. “We have filed a supplementary chargesheet against Vora today (Tuesday) in the MCOCA court. In the chargesheet, we have listed enough evidence against her to make a case,” Additional Commissioner of [...]
The UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (Unesco) Monday condemned the murders of two journalists in Brazil. Mario Randolfo, the editor of the Web site Vassouras na Net was shot to death along with his wife in Rio de Janeiro state Feb 8 and Paulo Roberto Cardoso Rodrigues, editor-in-chief of the Jornal da Praca newspaper was fatally shot last week [...]
The rate of teenage suicides in Russia was declining but excessive media coverage portrays it as a growing trend, experts have said. “There has been a decrease in children’s suicides. There is no need to heat up the situation. There is no epidemic, but the tragedy is really here,” said Pavel Astakhov, Russia’s children’s rights ombudsman Astakhov had earlier termed [...]
Terming the weekend killings of a journalist and his entire family in Madhya Pradesh as a “terrible incident”, the Congress Monday said the guilty should be immediately punished. “It is most distressing to hear of such a terrible incident where not only a journalist but his entire family has been so brutally killed,” Congress leader and spokesperson Abhishek Manu Singhvi [...]
Change is the law of nature, the spice of life and every change brings forth something new and innovative which may be beneficial, useful and refreshing for the people at large and the society to adopt. Though every change brings with it something new, there are some areas where it has not proved so useful. The silver screen [...]
India’s Narain Karthikeyan was handed a permanent driver’s slot with the HRT Formula One team on the strength of his showing in the Indian Grand Prix and the Spanish team expects him to justify his selection by being more consistent in the 2012 season. The country’s first F1 driver edged his contemporaries to sign up with HRT earlier in the [...]
Stating there is no need to control the media, the government Tuesday stressed on an enabling mechanism to curb misleading advertisements in order to protect consumer interests. “Self regulation is laudable but existing time lag between a claim not supported by facts and corrective measures is not acceptable,” Consumer Affairs Minister K.V. Thomas told reporters here. “There has to be [...]
What Facebook hopes to do, is to track the behaviour of its users to help draw advertisers. But its success would depend on whether its users are willing to engage more with advertisers. Technology companies, when they make their market debut, always seem to flout traditional notions and metrics of valuation. Social networking site Facebook, which expects to raise $5 [...]
Bangladeshi journalists Sunday warned of waging a movement for the resignation of the home minister if the killers of journalist couple Sagar Sarowar and Meherun Runi were not arrested. Hundreds of journalists formed a human chain in front of the Jatiya Press Club in Dhaka to protest the gory murders, the Daily Star reported. Sarowar, a news editor at private [...]
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