London: British police on Saturday arrested five senior members of staff at News Corporation's flagship newspaper The Sun, the company said, as part of investigations into alleged payments to police by journalists for information. The payments investigation, dubbed Operation Elveden, is part of a wider probe into illegal news gathering practices that have rocked Britain's political, media and police establishments and last year prompted the closure of News Corp's Sunday...
11:44 PM, Feb 11, 2012
New York: Pakistan remained the deadliest country for journalists for the second year in a row, while coverage of political unrest around the world was "unusually dangerous," a press advocacy group said on Tuesday. The Committee to Protect Journalists said in its year-end report that 43 journalists died around the world in 2011. Seven journalists were killed in Pakistan, where 29 journalists have been killed in the past five years....
07:47 AM, Dec 22, 2011
Mumbai: Expressing concern over over-commercialisation of media, President Pratibha Patil on Wednesday asked it to exercise freedom with "honesty, objectivity and conviction" to promote national goal and build public opinion. Patil also advised journalists to verify and double-check facts before airing a story. "The media is a powerful tool in a democracy and more so in India, which is the world's largest democracy. It can be a catalyst for positive...
01:49 AM, Dec 22, 2011
Amman: Syrian authorities arrested a blogger on Sunday who was travelling to Jordan to attend a conference on freedom of the press in the region, her friends said. Razan Ghazzawi, 30, is the latest among scores of bloggers and journalists arrested since the break out of street protests against President Bashar al-Assad. "She was arrested as she presented her passport to immigration at the Syrian border post of Nassib to...
09:29 AM, Dec 05, 2011
New Delhi: The head of India's Press Council told top security officials he would bring criminal charges against any police officers and paramilitary troops who attack journalists. Markandey Katju's strong defense of media safety followed repeated assaults on reporters covering demonstrations in Kashmir. Police in the tumultuous region wrote in an email to The Associated Press that the journalists' accusations were "baseless and concocted." In a letter sent late Thursday...
09:30 PM, Dec 02, 2011
Vaishali: A group of children in Bihar have found a unique way to highlight their everyday problems. They have turned reporters to create awareness about child marriage, child labour and other issues. All of 12, Kajal's awareness about issues is exemplary. The child crusader, part of the child reporter brigade in Bihar's Vaishali district, has been taking on the cause of child labour, child marriage, environment protection and civic consciousness...
08:58 AM, Nov 30, 2011
Thiruvananthapuram: The second edition of the Hay Festival, a three-day cultural fete featuring poets, storytellers, novelists, journalists and filmmakers, begins on Thursday. The highlight of this year's edition will be presentations of various poetic works from across the globe and a Poetry Gala with K Satchidanandan, Simon Armitage, Twm Morys, Anupama Raju, Eurig Salisbury and others. Lyndy Cooke, executive producer of Hay Festival Kerala, said this year's programme celebrates the...
06:21 PM, Nov 16, 2011
New Delhi: In the wake of a spat between the Chinese envoy to India and a journalist, the BJP on Friday said the Government should take cognisance of such "brazen acts of undiplomatic behaviour" and warn the ambassador officially not to indulge in unfriendly acts in future. BJP insisted that such behaviour was totally unacceptable and insulting to Indian democracy and demanded an "unqualified apology" from the ambassador to the...
07:51 PM, Nov 04, 2011
New Delhi: Chinese Ambassador to India on Thursday told journalists to 'shut up' when questioned about map showing Ladakh and Arunachal as part of China. Chinese Ambassador was attending an event in Delhi where a Chinese company's brochure showed Arunachal and Ladakh as part of China. The Joint Secretary in the Ministry of External Affairs who was present at the event had already raised the issue with the Ambassador. The...
03:11 PM, Nov 03, 2011
Justice Katju called journalists uneducated and in need of regulation. In response, the journalist associations have called his words offensive and ignorant. ...
11:44 PM, Nov 02, 2011
Sagarika Ghose asks a panel of experts if, 'News of The World' type crisis is waiting to happen to Indian media. ...
12:14 AM, Jul 12, 2011
The closure of the 'News of the World' may feel like the end of an era for journalists. ...
11:56 PM, Jul 08, 2011
Lucknow: A day after IBN7 journalists Shalabh Mani Tripathi and Manoj Ranjan Tripathi, who had been closely tracking the YS Sachan story, were roughed up by Additional Superintendent of Police BP Ashok and Circle officer Anup Kumar, an FIR was registered against them and the police officers were suspended. Shalabh Mani Tripathi had been taken to the Hazratganj Police Station, and was released after hundreds of media persons from UP...
10:54 PM, Jun 27, 2011
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