A European court has awarded damages to an investigative journalist whose home was raided and computers confiscated after he published articles alleging fraud within the European Union. In its ruling for the German reporter, Hans-Martin Tillack, the European Court of Human Rights said Tuesday that the right to protect the identity of sources is an essential [...]

NEW DELHI: A sting operation, showing how the lower judiciary could be exploited to obtain arrest warrants against anyone for a bribe, has boomeranged on the journalist with the Supreme Court adamant on his unconditional apology for bringing the entire judiciary to disrepute. A Bench comprising Chief Justice K G Balakrishnan and Justices R V Raveendran [...]

SYDNEY (Reuters) – International news agencies have ended their boycott of Australian cricket after reaching a deal over media coverage rights. Reuters, Associated Press and Agence France-Presse had all been refusing to cover the series between Australia and Sri Lanka in protest at Cricket Australia’s (CA) demands. But they reached a provisional agreement on Friday, allowing the [...]

Sweden’s largest direct marketing company has joined the national postal service in refusing to distribute a political newspaper containing a caricature of the Muslim prophet Muhammad. Earlier this week Posten decided not to distribute SD-Kuriren – a newspaper produced by the far-right Sweden Democrats – in Svedala in southern Sweden. As the newspaper contained a reproduction [...]

COLOMBO, Sri Lanka: A Sri Lankan newspaper chose a graphic way to illustrate how a media rights dispute between Cricket Australia and the major international news agencies is hurting its coverage of the series. With its national squad in Brisbane, Australia, for the first test match against the world’s top-ranked team, Sri Lanka’s Sunday Times would [...]

BRISBANE, Australia (AFP) — Australia’s Test cricket season opened with international fans unable to follow the action after organisers locked global news agencies out of the ground in Brisbane. The row also left Australia’s largest media organisation, News Limited, unable to cover the first day of the Australia-Sri Lanka Test, although it secured a breakthrough with [...]

KURNOOL: The Congress government in the state on Wednesday once again muffled the media by arresting two journalists of two vernacular dailies for what it called distorting facts with regard to a report on the Indiramma scheme. Though the journalists — Boya Sriramulu, contributor of ‘Andhra Jyothi’ and Boya Urukundu of ‘Andhra Bhoomi’ — were picked [...]

GLOBAL media coverage of today’s first cricket Test is in disarray, with international media agencies boycotting the event after accusing Cricket Australia of blackmail in the latest fight over digital sports rights. And a lock-out of journalists at the first Test with Sri Lanka at the Gabba was only narrowly avoided yesterday as negotiations over CA’s [...]

JERUSALEM (AP) — Israeli police posed as a TV news crew to trap a one-time Palestinian informer, provoking an outcry from critics who said the sting threatened to put the lives of newspeople at risk. Police said the target of the operation was Nadim Injaz, a Palestinian man who had been wanted for making unspecified threats. Last [...]

Five newspapers yesterday agreed to pay substantial libel damages to Julia Kushnir, the woman who survived the crash in Moscow in which Liam Lawlor died, a day after evidence emerged to show there was no justification for describing her as a prostitute. The Moscow police press office told a journalist working for the Sunday Independent and [...]

SYDNEY: As global sports administrators try to squeeze more money out of coverage of events, media outlets in Australia have threatened to boycott the international cricket season starting this week. A new contract drawn up by Cricket Australia increases limitations on what can be published in print, online and in the burgeoning mobile phone market, and [...]

NEW YORK (AP) — New York magazine agreed Tuesday to stop accepting sex ads after the local chapter of the National Organization for Women threatened protests outside the offices of the popular weekly publication. The women’s rights group had accused New York of being a “marketing arm of the organized crime world of prostitution and human [...]

NEW DELHI: The Centre on Wednesday informed the Delhi High Court that it was planning to bring an amendment in Press Council on India Act to give it more teeth for acting against newspapers and magazines which publish obscene pictures. The Centre shared its plan for give more powers to the PCI with a Bench [...]

Television channels ordered off the air after the airing of footage exposing The Narendra Modi government’s involvement in the 2002 Gujarat riots have resumed broadcasting. Protestors burning an effigy of Gujarat Chief Minister Narendra Modi in Hyderabad after a TV sting exposed government involvement in the 2002 mass killings of Muslims. Television channels ordered off the [...]

CHICAGO: There are no adult ads in this week’s edition of the Orlando (Fla.) Weekly — just a blank page where they would be — and there might not be any in the alternative paper next week, either. Orlando Weekly Publisher Rick Schreiber, in a brief telephone conversation with E&P Friday, said no decision had been [...]