(Daily star/ Reuters)Israel placed curbs on Swedish journalists on Sunday as Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu urged Sweden’s government to condemn a newspaper article that Israeli officials say recalled historic hatred of Jews in Europe.

The IFJ has called for the lifting of all censorship reporting from Afghanistan as rumours spread of violence and chaos in the wake of presidential elections taking place today. "The world needs to know about what's happening in the streets of Kabul," said Aidan White, IFJ General Secretary. "The ban on reporting is only encouraging ignorance, speculations and fear". [..]

The editor of Lokmat has filed a police complaint alleging that he received death threats after he published a cartoon of Swami Ramdas Samarth in a suit. The Hoot is publishing the complaint. (Hoot) Sanatan Prabhat is an organization which has been under the lens of investigative agencies for fomenting terror against minorities. [..]

(Ijnet) Journalists seeking skills and tools for handling stress, keeping safe and healthy, preventing danger and operating securely in hostile environments can attend a Hostile Environment Safety Training (HEST) in Munich, Germany from September 14 to 18. The course will include lectures, short practical exercises, and real-life role-plays with personalized debriefings.

(IPI) A temporary court injunction has been slapped on Slovene daily newspaper Dnevnik, preventing it from reporting on an alleged corruption controversy. The newspaper faces heavy financial penalties if it breaches the vaguely worded court order. [..]

(The Moscow times)The Russian Orthodox Church has cursed and excommunicated a journalist for “satanic lies” in accusing the abbess of a monastery of scaring locals into selling their homes for “peanuts.” The church used excommunication and the anathema ecclesiastical curse as powerful weapons against its enemies under the tsars but rarely imposes the sanctions today.

(AJR) Imagine a television news program with no flashy graphics and no theme music. A program whose full-time correspondents are all white and, with one exception, male. A program that features stories made up largely of talking heads. There's no way that kind of program could draw an audience today, is there? It's so..last century. But that could be the secret of its success.

With journalists and their employers increasingly active on social media sites like Facebook and Twitter, news organizations are struggling to respond to a host of new ethics challenges. (AJR) As a journalist, is it okay to describe your politics as "kind of a Commie" on Facebook? Do you stop friends from posting pictures of you on their MySpace pages? [..]

A few bright spots in the US media’s health reform coverage (CJR)Media coverage of health reform lately has centered on the legislative horse race, as we knew it would. [..]

Bloggers stand out when professional journalists don’t stand up (CJR) Lawrence Pintak and Yosri Fouda’s assertion that, by defending online writers in the Middle East, Western press freedom groups are undermining journalism in that region is a real head-scratcher. What’s the premise for that argument? Maybe it’s the notion that ‘bloggers are not journalists’. [..]