2005-2014

GWALIOR: You might have come across several newspapers writing on the plight of women, but have you ever heard about a paper run by women, for women and to women? If not, then come to Gwalior in Madhya Pradesh to read through 'Mahila Paksh', India's first women centric newspaper, covering issues and subjects ranging from atrocities on women to their achievements in various fields. With reporters...

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Yahoo Inc. and Six Apart Ltd., creator of Movable Type -- the most popular software used to create professional blogs -- said on Sunday Yahoo will be the preferred supplier of Movable Type for small businesses. The partnership is the latest in a string of deals by the world's largest Internet media company as it seeks to embrace so-called "social media," the new...

NEW YORK - Steve Case, the co-founder of AOL and one of the main architects of the disastrous AOL-Time Warner combination, now says the world's biggest media company should be broken up into four business units. Case, who became a lightning rod for angry investors following the debacle, laid out his argument for breaking up Time Warner Inc. in an essay published in The Washington Post on Sunday...

OVER THE LAST 18 MONTHS, marketers have enthused non-stop about the potential of blogs as an ad medium. They've gushed over the authenticity of bloggers' voices, heralded the diversity of viewpoints, and rhapsodized about the affluent, educated audience blogs attract. But when it comes to actually pulling the trigger on ad deals, many online media firms--epecially those representing companies in...

Prominent anti-Syrian journalist and lawmaker Gibran Tueni was killed in a car bomb explosion in Beirut Monday, a day after he returned from Paris, where he had based himself in recent months in fear of assassination. A previously unknown group claimed responsibility for the blast, but many quickly accused Damascus in the slaying. Lebanese Red Cross workers carry the body of a victim on a

The Committee to Protect Journalists has condemned the detention of journalist Hang Sakhorn on a charge of criminal libel, part of a growing government crackdown on freedom of expression in Cambodia. TOTAL HUNSANITY: Cambodian Prime Minister Hun Sen's recent border agreement with Vietnam has been criticised in the media prompting him to crack down on journalists. Many of the country's leading

Tajik authorities have ignored a second Supreme Court order to release jailed independent journalist Jumaboy Tolibov, according to a local Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) legal source who is monitoring the case. LOOK WHO'S TALKING: President Emomali Rakhmonov's government severely restricts freedom of expression. The sole publishing house for publishing newspapers is owned by the state and

Authorities in Yemen are resorting to both judicial and extra-judicial measures to rein in journalists. On Saturday last, a court in capital Sanaa ordered the suspension of the privately-owned Al-Usboo newspaper for three months and fined it Yemeni rial 30,000 ($160). The court also sentenced journalist Abdulwadud Al-Matari of Al-Rasid newspaper to a two-month suspended imprisonment. Both cases

On the face of it, Egypt's ruling National Democratic Party (NDP) may have scored a facile victory garnering as much as 72 per cent of the seats in the monthlong parliamentary elections, but the real picture stays hidden from what these statistics may indicate. EYE FACTOR: Egypt's President Hosni Mubarak listens to a speech during an Organisation of the Islamic Conference (OIC) meeting in Mecca

Press freedom organisations have condemned Zimbabwe's decision to seize the passport of the owner of the country's last two independent newspapers. Trevor Ncube owner and director of Zimbabwe's two remaining independent newspapers and of South Africa's Mail and Guardian, was ordered to hand over his passport on Thursday when he landed in Zimbabwe at Bulawayo airport from South Africa. COLOURS OF