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Tech companies can help publishers charge for online content

donal brown September 14, 2009

The big tech companies including Google and Microsoft can easily provide publishers with ways to charge readers for news online.It is more difficult to get the publishers to stop providing news for free. -DB San Francisco Chronicle September 11, 2009 By Andrew Vanacore (09-11) 04:15 PDT NEW YORK, (AP) — Some of the world’s most prominent technology companies are offering suggestions to publishers on how they can charge readers for news online. IBM Corp., Microsoft

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Puerto Rico: ACLU appeals ruling that FBI not responsible for attacking reporters

donal brown September 10, 2009

Although a federal court found the FBI agents’ attack on several journalists unconstitutional, they found that the agents could not be held responsible for their actions. -DB American Civil Liberties Union Press Release September 10, 2009 SAN JUAN, PR – The American Civil Liberties Union today filed an appeal of a federal court ruling that found that, even though there was enough evidence to prove that FBI agents violated the Fourth Amendment rights of journalists by

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Press freedom under fire in Latin America

donal brown September 1, 2009

In recent months journalists have suffered setbacks in Ecuador, Nicaragua, Venezuela, Colombia, Bolivia, Brazil and Argentina as courts and leaders move to restrict coverage and demonize the press. -DB The New York Times August 31, 2009 By Alexei Barrionuevo RIO DE JANEIRO — For the family of José Sarney, Brazil’s Senate president, the daily onslaught of newspaper reports about nepotism and corruption accusations against him was too much to bear. So Mr. Sarney’s son Fernando, who

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Venezuelan president clamping down on media

donal brown August 13, 2009

A United States unclassified intelligence report says that Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez is aggressively silencing his media critics, including bloggers. He has proposed a law that would make it a crime to report on anything the government finds objectionable.  -DB Open Source Center Analysis August 3, 2009 President Chavez’s government is moving forcefully to silence critics by introducing a Media Crimes bill that would give it sweeping authority to jail journalists, media executives, and bloggers who report on

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