Since next week, Institute for Reporters' Freedom and Safety will supply journalists with special vests under financial support of International Association of Free Speech. "Turan" agency informs that there is special "PRESS" inscription on both sides of vests.

American military in Iraq has set free cameraman of the British Reuters agency Ali al-Mashhadani kept in detention for three weeks without bringing any charge, the agency informs.

Press Council of Azerbaijan hopes that President of the country will pardon three imprisoned journalists. “In July, we appealed to President Ilham Aliyev concerning amnesty for the journalists. That appeal is still in power and the issue is on the agenda. The issue will be considered once again at the Press Council's session and we believe that the imprisoned journalists will be set free in the nearest future”, PC chairman Aflatun Amashov told Trend News.

International Federation of Journalists calls on Georgia to quit censoring Russian-language mass media and appeals to the conflict sides to provide an opportunity of free coverage of the events around South Ossetia.

On 11 September, nominees to the US president will lay off advertising clips containing fault-finding of rivals for one day, AP informs.
Republican nominee John McCain stated there would be no advertising clips of his pre-elections campaign on 11 September on television at all. “This is not a politics day”, McCain noted.

A list of mass media, which will carry out free of charge propaganda of presidential nominees in Azerbaijan, has been specified. As APA was informed at Central Electron Commission's press-center, free of charge broadcast time of Public TV and Radio Company, as well as the pages of “Azerbaijan”, “Halg gazeti”, “Republic” and “Bakinsky rabochiy” newspapers will be provided for pre-election propaganda and agitation campaigns.

The first issue of Best Life magazine’s Russian version will come out September 2, web site of Independent Media Sanoma Magazines Co. - the edition's owner informs.

As www.day.az informs, the Azerbaijani population, using services of large cable TV operators as KATV and B&B TV, have been deprived of watching CNN channel starting from about 18:00 of August 18.

Georgian authorities have decided to suspend broadcast of RTVi channel, Echo of Moscow Radio informs on Monday.

Television is still the main source of learning news for the US population, as proved by the research data published Sunday by Pew Research Center, AP informs.

British Internet advertising left behind TV ads in 2007 by volume having seized 19% of the market, Reuters informs. According to the data of telecommunication regulating agency Ofcom, last year, on-line advertising expenses grew in Great Britain up to 40% making £2,8 milliard.

Yesterday, a survey group of Azerbaijani ANS TV and tens of other journalists were gunned in Georgian Gori city, www.day.az informs referring to ANS TV. According to ANS TV correspondent Nadir Almasoglu, who is in Gori now, Russian militaries at the Gori entry point did not let enter the city.
He stressed that a skirmish started while they were waiting at the entry point, and then “Niva” car came with four Russian soldiers inside.

Russian authorities organized Tuesday a trip to Tskhinvali for a group of western journalists. As Tom Parfitt wrote - correspondent of British The Guardian, who was in the group, the journalists eye-witnessed the city and its suburbs destroyed by Georgian artillery, as well as talked to its inhabitants who hid in basements with no food and water for all that time.

Chief international correspondent of British The Times called Dmitriy Medvedev “a marionette” of Vladimir Putin and “so-called president”. According to the author of the article, the last five days answered the question who in fact rules in Russia.

We were informed yesterday that Russian militaries had beaten Turkish journalists in Georgia, www.day.az informs referring to Azadlig Radio citing head of Russian Center for Journalism in Extreme Situations, Oleg Panfilov who is now in Georgia.