2005-2014

BEIJING, Jan. 24 - China's Propaganda Department on Tuesday ordered the closing of Bing Dian, an influential weekly newspaper that often tackled touchy political and social subjects, as the authorities stepped up efforts to curb the spread of information and views the Communist Party considers unfavorable. The shutdown came the same day that Google announced that it would begin steering its...

NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) – Who will be the big winner from the creation of the new CW television network? Here's a hint. It might not be CW or even the other major TV networks. Media buyers said cable could wind up gaining more viewers once the CW, created from the merger of CBS (Research)-owned UPN and Time Warner (Research)-owned WB, begins broadcasting in the fall of this year. (Time Warner also...

Can we finally admit that Muslims have blown out of all proportion their outrage over 12 cartoons depicting the Prophet Mohammad published in a Danish newspaper last September? In the latest twist, last week both the Organization for the Islamic Conference and the Gulf Cooperation Council condemned a Norwegian newspaper for reprinting the drawings - a decision the publication defended as...

Minister of Information and Broadcasting, Professor Septimus Kaijkai Friday disclosed that government, in its effort to strengthen the relationship with the Media, has designed a project for training facilities for media practitioners in Sierra Leone. He made the statement during a press conference at his Youyi Building office in Freetown. "The reason for organizing the training is to improve on...

(WOMENSENEWS)--The kidnapping of freelance journalist Jill Carroll is a horrifying reminder of the risks journalists in war zones confront. Abduction, abuse and death are equal-opportunity dangers for war correspondents, be they female or male. Would that the profession in which they serve rewarded them equally for their dedication to journalism by finally erasing differences in compensation...

PHNOM PENH: Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen said today he would drop criminal defamation lawsuits against five human rights activists whose arrests were cited as evidence of his increasing authoritarianism. Hun Sen, the former Khmer Rouge soldier who has run Cambodia for the past two decades, said he had talked at length with the five last night and had agreed to accept their apologies for...

BUFFALO, N.Y. The Buffalo News will end its 127-year run of publishing afternoon editions of the paper by the spring of next year. Publisher Stanford Lipsey announced today that subscribers will see the first changes this spring, when the newspaper's Niagara edition is moved to morning delivery. All editions of the paper will become morning delivery by the spring of 2007. The move is the latest in...

Job cuts, benefit reductions, and reduced newspaper sizes are part of a plan to improve margins by as much as $150 million a year at newspaper chain Knight Ridder Inc., according to people familiar with presentations management has been making to potential buyers. The country's second-largest newspaper chain put itself on the block late last year, under pressure from its biggest shareholders. Now...

NEW YORK About 156,000 people have signed up and paid a special online fee to read The New York Times' columnists since the paper launched its TimesSelect service four months ago, the paper reported Tuesday. Those readers are among a total of 390,000 who have signed up for the Web feature, which includes print subscribers who have free access to the online columns, but must register. "We've always...

LONDON (Reuters) - The BBC accused Tehran on Tuesday of blocking its Farsi-language Web site, which it describes as one of the most influential sources of news in Iran. The BBC says its Farsi site, BBCpersian.com, normally receives 30 million page views a month, making it the British broadcaster's most popular foreign-language site. An Iranian culture ministry official, who asked not to be...