Wikileaks and journalist Arat Dink was honoured by Index on Censorship at a ceremony in London last night. Dink was awarded the prestigious Guardian Journalism Award, which recognises determined and brave journalism that often represents a...
The retail giant is displaying a sudden enthusiasm for libel courts, writes Roby Alampay In the space of five months, four libel suits have been filed by Tesco, one of the world's biggest retailers, and its subsidiary in Thailand, Tesco Lotus. The...
Journalist Shiv Malik has been granted leave to appeal against a production order served on him by police. Malik, who specialises in writing on Islamist extremism and terrorism, was ordered by Greater Manchester Police Counter Terrorism Unit to...
Nadeem Ghori, chief editor of independent weekly Saam (Champion) was arrested by Afghan security forces on 13 April. Noor Ahmad, deputy editor of Saam, said the local government in Ghor Province has not released any details still about the arrest....
London local paper the Hackney Gazette has decided not to allow the British National Party to advertise in its pages. The paper was the focus of much scrutiny after the Hampstead and Highgate Express, which is owned by the same group, Archant, had...
Three journalists were injured in Karachi, Pakistan on 9 April while covering clashes between two groups of lawyers. One of the injured was a camera woman from GEO television, who broke her arm. Two media vehicles were torched and four cameras were...
Richard Butler, a British journalist working with American network CBS, has been freed after being held hostage for two months. Read more here
On 11 April, seven leading Slovakian dailies - SME, Pravda, Hospodarske, Noviny, Novy Cas, Plus 1 Den and Uj Szo published issues with nothing on the front page apart from a black-bordered editorial criticising the country’s new media law. A...
Should publications only run ads that match their principles, asks Peter Wilby Many readers and some journalists believe editors should apply the same principles to advertising as they do to editorial copy. If an ad is violently at variance with...
A High Court judge today rejected an attempt by the UK Defence Secretary to ‘gag’ coroners. Lawyers for Des Browne had challenged critical comments made by Andrew Walker, an Oxfordshire coroner, at the inquest of Private Jason Smith in November...