2005-2014

Perhaps it's just me, but news seems to be coming our way faster and with a greater fury than ever before. A tsunami of "breaking news " bulletins course through the veins and ganglia of what passes for an information system. A corporate news machine then pumps it out on a plethora of platforms dedicated to "more news in less time" -- in the press, on the web, on TV, on the radio and now on the...

TALLINN, Estonia, Jan. 3 (UPI) -- The Russian Federation's Federal Security Service (FSB) has charged that a Finnish journalist during a September visit to the Mari Republic in the Middle Volga not only gathered "negative" information about conditions but transferred money and instructions to opposition groups there. Thus, the News12.ru website reported on Dec. 28, the FSB concluded that Ville...

LONDON (AdAge.com) -- The U.S. national newspapers -- The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and USA Today -- are broadsheets, in keeping with a tradition that a broadsheet connotes seriousness, while a tabloid is sensational. That view was long held here in the U.K. as well, but this past year several "serious" newspapers here switched over to tabloid format and found their circulation...

TEHRAN (Reuters) - The Iranian government on Monday ordered the closure of a daily newspaper and banned a new women's bi-weekly from publication in the first media crackdown since President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad took office in August. "The Supervisory Board on the Press agreed to the temporary closure of Asia newspaper and Nour-e Banovan and ordered their cases sent to court," said the Culture...

China has become the world's largest producer of daily newspapers, accounting for 15 percent of the world's total daily production. A report reviewing China's newspaper industry in 2005 is the first time in which the Chinese government detailed the development of the country's newspaper industry. It shows there are currently 90 newspapers in 13 languages in print used by Chinese minorities, and...

NEW YORK: The Wall Street Journal on Tuesday launched an online page devoted to legal issues, as well as a law blog that the paper says will "provide timely news and analysis on events and trends important to the legal market." In a release, Dow Jones & Co. unveiled the new service at blogs.wsj.com/law/, which it says will include "original online-only content relevant to law firms, lawyers and...

Jim Chisholm, Strategy Advisor for WAN and Director of the Shaping the Future of the Newspaper project ( www.futureofthenewspaper.com) says newspapers have much to look forward to in 2006. Here are his forecasts for the year. By any measure the media industry is undergoing extraordinary change. Consider for a minute that MSN, Playstations, Amazon, and eBay didn’t exist in 1994. Google was launched...

As Father Time faded into history with the end of 2005, he was spinning out of control. Over the past twelve months, the ideal of accurate, accountable, civic-minded news media faced nearly constant attack. Fake news abounded, from Pentagon-planted stories in Iraqi newspapers to corporate- and government-funded video news releases aired by U.S. newsrooms. Enough payola pundits surfaced to...

"The Way to Read Newspapers to Train the Brain," by Professor Ryuta Kawashima at Tohoku University, says "a newspaper is the best tool to train the brain." Professor Kawashima is one of the top authorities in the research of the brain and its functions, and has released over 10 books alone in this field. In this book, Kawashima says that the most important part of the brain is the prefrontal...

AMMAN, 3 January (IRIN) - Jordan's press syndicate and newspaper publishers have launched a campaign to lobby lawmakers to speed up ratification of a new press law scrapping provisions setting jail terms for journalists. Independent politicians, media figures and newspaper editors began lobbying lawmakers this week to give priority in the new parliamentary session to approving an amendment...