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Anderson Cooper Among Many Journalists Attacked in Cairo

Journalists in Cairo are being targeted and attacked, apparently by supporters of Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak, several news organizations are reporting today. CNN anchor Anderson Cooper was punched in the head and kicked while trying to make his way into the "no-man's land" between the anti-Mubarak and pro-Mubarak...

Chinese Investigative Journalist Dies After Gang Beating

Media rights groups are calling for an inquiry into the fatal beating of Chinese journalist Sun Hongjie, who had investigated politically sensitive issues such as government-enforced housing demolitions. Sun, a senior reporter at the Northern Xinjiang Morning Post in western China, died at a hospital in Kuitun on Tuesday,...

Middle Eastern Media Quiet About WikiLeaks Revelations

(Dec. 9) -- Libyan leader Moammar Gadhafi and his voluptuous eastern European nurse. Persian Gulf leaders beseech the U.S. to bomb Iran. While these disclosures from State Department cables were among those released by WikiLeaks and were widely reported in much of the rest of the world, the press in the Middle East has...

Bill Gates Says China Censorship No Big Deal

(Jan. 26) – Since Bill Gates gave up the day-to-day running of Microsoft in 2008, he's tried to sell himself as the world's greatest philanthropist. But his new cuddly image took a knock Monday, when he dismissed China's much-condemned attempts to quash Internet dissent as "very limited." Speaking to ABC's "Good...

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05/20/11 Reporters without Borders Source: OneWorld
03/27/11 Reporters Without Borders (RWB) Source: Sudan Tribune
11/26/10 Cameroon: Newspaper Editors Released Conditionally... Source: AllAfrica.com Newspaper editors Serge Sabouang of the bimonthly La Nation and Robert Mintya of the weekly Le Devoir were freed provisionally yesterday after more than eight months in YaoundÃ©'s main prison, Kondengui.

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Reporters Without Borders (RWB) is a French-based international non-governmental organization that advocates freedom of the press and freedom of information.

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