THE Government’s proposed privacy legislation conflicts with press freedom in this country and would “inhibit the way newspapers carry out their legitimate and important function in society”.

FIFA President Sepp Blatter has written an open letter to newspapers in the bitter row over the relaxation of restrictions on the use of photographs of this summer’s World Cup on the internet.

A SCIENCE magazine aimed at children aged between 8-12 and produced by two academics at Waterford Institute of Technology has scooped a coveted award.

Burma’s military junta released at least 19 political prisoners, including pro-democracy party members, as part of a group of nearly 4,000 inmates it said were wrongly charged by an intelligence agency.

THE ability of newspapers to attract young readers determine their future success, the World Association of Newspapers congress in Dublin was told yesterday.

EVERY second day an American soldier is killed in Iraq, but this and almost daily attacks on US forces are not reported in the West, Middle Eastern correspondent Robert Fisk told the World Association of Newspapers congress in Dublin yesterday.

The World Association of Newspapers (WAN) and World Editors Forum (WEF) have lodged an official protest with Tony Blair over the arrest of two journalists in the North for publishing transcripts of bugged telephone calls.

BONO and Taoiseach Bertie Ahern will address the World Newspaper Congress, which will held here for the first time in June.

Newspaper circulation in Asia will undergo double-digit growth in the next four years while sales decreases in Europe and North America will slow following two decades of decline, the World Association of Newspapers predicts in a new report.

A newspaper editor and columnist in a major town in Colombia’s coffee-growing region died yesterday, two days after being shot in the head as he walked to his office.