2005-2014

WATERBURY -- About 40 people, mostly Hispanic, protested in front of the Republican-American on Saturday over what they said were biased editorials and articles. Several people held placards and small flags of Puerto Rico during the nearly hourlong showing. "We demand an apology for racist comments in editorials and commentary," said Jeffrey Rodriguez, his voice amplified through a bull horn...

The Wikipedia online encyclopedia is often celebrated for its uniqueness: every internet user can create new articles and edit entries. Since the website's launch on January 15 2001, "Wikipedians" have contributed or edited more than three million articles in 205 different languages. The largest language areas are English, German, French, Japanese and Polish. Wikipedia's popularity is shown by the...

THE Age newspaper has axed some of its most senior staff in a massive cost-cutting purge. Voluntary redundancy payouts have been granted to 36 editorial staff – most of them long-serving reporters. On Wednesday, when successful redundancy applicants were notified, a thinly veiled swipe was taken at management in the newspaper's daily news conference. On the paper's news list, under a planned...

SINGAPORE (Reuters) - Singapore's Straits Times newspaper said on Saturday Chinese authorities had extended the detention of its chief correspondent in China, who was arrested earlier this year on charges of spying for Taiwan. Ching Cheong, 56, was first detained in April in Southern China, and formally arrested in August. "Because the case is complex, and with the approval of the Beijing People's...

Knight Ridder, the newspaper giant that put itself up for sale last month, received several preliminary bids yesterday from both rivals and private equity firms, according to people involved in the auction. Among the rival newspaper chains that submitted what is known as indications of interest were the Gannett Company, the McClatchy Company and the MediaNews Group, these people said. Several...

NEW YORK (AdAge.com) -- If Microsoft Corp. trumps Google in the battle to be Time Warner’s AOL business partner, no one in Web world will be surprised. Most observers agree Microsoft needs the gig way more than Google does. Although both Google and Microsoft can give AOL the two things Time Warner CEO Richard Parsons said it needs -- a wider audience and better technology -- the stakes are higher...

The online encyclopedia Wikipedia is often referred to as an "open-source" project because it is written, edited and policed by a global group of volunteers. However, the open-source label doesn't really fit Wikipedia. "Free-for-all," in fact, may be a better match. "Open source," at least the way it's been used in tech circles over the years, usually connotes successful, volunteer projects like...

A Beijing-based correspondent for the respected German weekly newspaper Die Zeit was detained for five hours Friday near so-called cancer villages along a severely polluted river in central China. Georg Blume said in a telephone interview from the hotel room where he was being held in Shenqiu, Henan province, and was accused of conducting 'illegal interviews'. He was cross-examined until he was...

Every now and then, there is talk within the media that a certain nationality dominates within the establishments of Arab satellite news channels. Some believe that the employees of that nationality form a mafia like group that rejects employees of other nationalities or undermines them to the extent that they do not achieve either success or popularity in the same way that those of the dominant...

Hortense Nouvion wants love stories. Black love stories. She is the founder and editor of Cite Black, a magazine based in Paris that reflects the rich and flourishing, though largely unrecognized, African culture of France. She started the publication as a response to the absence of black faces and voices in French media, from movies to the newsstand. "You never see a love story between two black...