2005-2014

A 2005 year-end review of blogging has found that politics took a back seat to discussions about entertainment, technology, natural disasters and the evolution of blogs as legitimate media channels, according to Intelliseek's BlogPulse.com. Michael Jackson and Britney Spears generated more celebrity buzz than other entertainers, Boing Boing and Engadget were the two most popular blogs, "Sin City"...

NEW YORK (AP) - Under other circumstances, 2006 might look like a pretty good year for the media industry. The Winter Olympics and a midterm election are sure to boost advertising spending, the economy is humming along and consumers seem to be spending. But these are hardly normal circumstances. The broad shift of viewers and advertising dollars to the Internet is deeply troubling to many media...

(NewsYemen) Dec 25, Sanaa – A Yemeni journalist said yesterday that he was intimidated and threatened by the manager of a criminal investigation department in the province of Hajja. In a memo sent to the Yemeni Journalists Syndicate, Managing Editor of Annas private Weekly Abdulbassit Al-Qaedi said he was threatened after he published a report on human rights violations committed by security...

A Chinese researcher for the New York Times was indicted Friday for revealing state secrets to the newspaper and on a lesser charge of fraud, a move that should send the case to trial within six weeks, his lawyer said. The indictment signified a decision by prosecutors to proceed with a trial of 43-year-old Zhao Yan, after 15 months of investigation by the State Security Ministry during which Zhao...

This is not another story about the newspaper industry's Internet-induced march to the tar pits. Then again, it's not a contrarian "everything's OK after all" article. That's because one of the most important trends of the digital age--the shift of classified advertising from newsprint to the Web--isn't a cut-and-dried failure or success story for the newspaper industry. Newspaper-owned Web sites-...

The director of Voice of the People, a privately-owned radio station in Zimbabwe, was released Friday on bail of 4 million Zimbabwean dollars (40 euros) but will have to report to the police every week, according to reports. John Masuku is due to appear before a Harare court on January 13, 2006 on a charge of owning and using broadcast equipment without a licence from the Broadcasting Authority of

The recent British press revelation that President George W. Bush last year told U.K. Prime Minister Tony Blair that Washington was considering bombing the Qatar headquarters of the pan-Arab satellite station Al-Jazeera (denied by the White House) brought to new levels of intensity and idiocy the ongoing tension between the American government and some Arab satellite channels. This is the most...

When Islam is covered in the German media, discussion frequently mixes political, social and religious issues. Debate on Islamic topics can only gain in sophistication when more Muslims are involved in producing content. German journalism has developed more sensibility and increased the knowledge about Islam and Muslim culture, some experts say. In late October, the evening broadcast on Channel 3...

Reporters sans Frontières (RSF) has called on Mexican federal authorities to take charge of investigating attempts to intimidate crime reporter Claudia Padilla Pacheco of the local daily Correo in Celaya (in the central state of Guanajuato) after she wrote two investigative reports about the alleged implication of local police in criminal activity. AT THE CORREO: Correo's Caludia Padilla exposed

US President George W. Bush yet once again blamed Arab media for his country’s image problem. "I recognize we got an image issue, particularly when you have television stations, Arabic television stations that are constantly just pounding America - saying America is fighting Islam, Americans can't stand Muslims, this is a war against a religion," Bush commented following a speech in Philadelphia...