From the BBC:

Rising violence in South Asia is putting journalists at "severe risk", a US-based media human rights group says.

The Committee to Protect Journalists lists nations where reporters are regularly attacked or killed.

In the committee's list of 14 leading countries where the authorities had failed to solve murders of journalists, six were in South Asia.

This year has seen the high-profile murders of a Sri Lankan editor and a Nepal radio journalist.

The committee's report says attacks on reporters have increased in Sri Lanka and Pakistan, while Afghanistan, Nepal, Bangladesh and India also all appear on its "impunity index" of 14 countries.

Here's the report: Getting away with murder 2009

Iraq remains the worst place for journos -- 88 unsolved murders in a pop. of 29.5 million.

From the BBC:

Harakah and Suara Keadilan have been told they cannot publish for the next three months, with immediate effect.

It comes a week before the expected designation of a new and controversial prime minister, Najib Razak, and two weeks before important by-elections.

Analysts say the government, which has faced strong opposition challenges, is increasingly intolerant of criticism. ...

Harakah and Suara Keadilan are the main publications of the Pan-Malaysian Islamic Party and the People's Justice Party, which belong to a three-party opposition alliance that has made major inroads against the ruling National Front coalition in the past year.

Carbondale, Col. lost its newspaper. So some townspeople banded together to replace it, with many offering volunteer labour. However, the only paid staffer is wondering how sustainable such an operation can be.

GlobalPost.com hopes to fill the the gap in international coverage being created by the retrenchment of newspapers and hopes to do so at a profit.

I was a lazy blogger on Thursday and Friday, so I'm making this post a note-to-self on some of the CBC news that went on late last week.