Azerbaijani net of journalists-investigators (ANJI) has announced a contest among journalists of the country for the best article. According to project coordinator, Chingiz Sultansoy, only the articles or article cycles published in the printing or electronic mass media and headlined “For the ANJI contest” will be accepted.

In April 2009 a national analogue of the Discovery and National Geographic TV channels will appear in Russia, the “Kommersant” newspaper writes on 16 February. According to the edition, the new channel will be named the Russian Travel Guide (RTG TV).

The Transparency International - the international organization on struggle against corruption has awarded Russian journalist, Roman Shleynov and British journalist, David Leigh the Integrity award for 2008 for their contribution to the disclosure of corruption activity.

The American-Azerbaijan Society functioning in the USA will hold a number of actions devoted to the 17th anniversary of the Khojaly genocide.

In 1956 the State TV and Radio Broadcasting Company (AzTV channel) started broadcasting on a meter diapason. As www.day.az informs, in 1953 they started building a TV center in Baku.

The National TV and Radio Council (NTVRC) held a meeting on 12 February where execution of the broadcasting legislation was discussed.

The Federative Council decided to remove ex- secretary general of the Russian Union of Journalists (RUJ), Igor Yakovenko, from the membership of the organization's secretariat. The decision was made at the suggestion of the RUJ secretariat, the “Interfax” informs specifying that Yakovenko may fully stop working with the RUJ within the soonest time.

Publisher and editor of Indian The Statesman newspaper were arrested yesterday in Calcutta for insulting religious feelings of Muslims, British The Independent writes on Thursday, 12 February.

The Alma-Ata court has suspended the publication of the “Alma-Ata info” newspaper which had published the secret documents of the National Security Committee (NSC) concerning the investigation of some criminal cases, the “Interfax” informs referring to the International Foundation for Protection of Freedom of Speech “Adil soz”.

Executive director of the “Media FM” radio station, Tural Aliyev said in an interview to www.mediaforum.az that the radio is of socio-entertaining character. “Entertaining programs, news, expert opinions, discussions, as well as direct contacts and special reports will be broadcasted within 24 hours”.

The South African ETV News TV channel has placed by mistake the message that ex-US President, George Bush-junior died in the news crawl line. The information about the death of the 43rd US President remained in the air for three seconds during one of the news airplays, the BBC News informs.

The author of Barack Obama’s famous portrait has filed a counter suit against the Associated Press news agency which had accused him of the Copyright Act violation, AFP informs. The writ on behalf of artist, Shepard Fairey, was sent to the Manhattan circuit court on Monday, 9 February. Fairey tries to prove via the court that he didn't violate the ACT by using Obama’s picture without permission of the Associated Press.

Today the Baku Court of Appeal will examine the suit filed by imprisoned chief editor of the “Gundalik Azerbaijan” newspaper, Eynulla Fatullayev, against foreign minister of Azerbaijan, Elmar Mammadyarov, www.day.az informs referring to the Reporters’ Freedom and Safety Institute.

Chief editor of the “Mukhalifat” ("Opposition") newspaper, Rovshan Kabirli and the edition’s journalist, Yashar Agazade have filed a suit to the Sabail district court against the Ministry of Justice, the Ministry's Penitentiary Service and Pre-trial jail №1 of the Penitentiary Service of Azerbaijan, www.day.az informs referring to the Reporters’ Freedom and Safety Institute quoting Yashar Agazade.

Russian operators of cable TV may deprive their customers of a number of popular foreign TVs, “Kommersant” newspaper writes. Thus, a group of Companies “Akado” declared about possible stop of broadcasts of several channels of the scientific-study net Discovery because of getting the content at much more price.