From the BBC:

Egyptian blogger Abdel Kareem Soliman was jailed for four years

Bloggers are now finding themselves prey to censorship from repressive governments as much as journalists in traditional media, a report says.

Reporters Without Borders' annual study of press freedom says China is one of the worst offenders, having imprisoned 50 people for postings on the internet.

The report says governments realise the internet is now a key tool in promoting democracy and are moving to curb it.

Eritrea was ranked bottom on overall press freedom by the pressure group.

The African nation took the 169th slot on the sixth annual worldwide press freedom index, behind North Korea at 168th and Turkmenistan at 167th.

Here's the RSF news release on world press freedom.

O Canada

We finished in 18th place, although Canada and Germany are the only two G8 countries in the top 20.

Here's a Canada-specific report.

From print, according to this BizReport.com story:

A joint poll from Doremus and Financial Times indicates that online news sources come in second to print periodicals. Newspapers, trade journals and business magazines as well as "leisure" magazines are the preferred source of information.

Here is what the executives said. Of those who responded to the poll 73% said that print was not becoming obsolete and 59% said they trusted print more than online publications. Roughly 60% said they turned to print when they wanted in-depth information. Those polled also said they paid more attention to ads in print rather than online ads.

The Globe and Mail is less than impressed with the Harper government's apparently aborted plan to spend $2M on its own communications centre.

The government is being less than forthcoming as to when the project was shelved (BTW, the Star received documents about the project Thursday night).