2005-2014

What if an online encyclopedia read by millions said you shot JFK? Wikipedia, an Internet encyclopedia written entirely by volunteers, claimed that a prominent journalist might have been involved in the assassinations of the Kennedy brothers, a false charge that has highlighted the Achilles' heel of such do-it-yourself Web sites. The journalist, John Seigenthaler Sr., 78 -- who was an...

SAN FRANCISCO, California (AP) -- Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia to which anyone can contribute, is tightening submission rules after a prominent journalist complained that an article falsely implicated him in the Kennedy assassinations. Wikipedia will now require users to register before they can create articles, Jimmy Wales, founder of the St. Petersburg, Florida-based Web site, said Monday...

Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia to which anyone can contribute, is tightening submission rules after a prominent journalist complained that an article falsely implicated him in the Kennedy assassinations. Wikipedia will now require users to register before they can create articles, Jimmy Wales, founder of the St. Petersburg, Fla.-based Web site, said Monday. People who modify existing articles...

Masked gunmen abducted a reporter on Monday in the troubled region of Waziristan in Pakistan bordering Afghanistan where a top al-Qaeda commander was killed in a blast last week, the man's brother and a government official told Reuters. ON THE EDGE: A Pakistan soldier stands guard near Pakistan-Afghanistan border at Kundi Gar post, some 80km southwest of Miranshah, the capital of Pakistan's semi

MOSCOW, December 6 (RIA Novosti) - A Moscow city court will select a jury December 29 in the trial of three suspects charged with murdering Forbes Russia Editor Paul Klebnikov. Preliminary closed hearings began Tuesday. The suspects are Fail Satretdinov, a notary from Moscow, and two Chechen residents Musa Vakhayev and Kazbek Dukuzov. Paul Klebnikov, 41, was murdered in Moscow on July 9, 2004. He...

U.S. residents who prefer Google’s search engine tend to be richer and have more Internet experience than those who primarily use competing search services from Microsoft, Yahoo, and America Online, a new study has found. The longer people have been using the Internet, the more likely it is that Google will be their search engine of choice, according to a survey of 1,000 U.S. Internet users...

It takes most companies decades to build a great reputation. Google Inc. did it in seven years. The creator of the premier Internet search engine made a striking debut this year in the annual Reputation Quotient ranking, placing third among 60 of the most prominent companies in the world. Google, which took root in a Stanford University dorm room and was founded in 1998, ranked behind No. 1...

According to a survey undertaken by the Jordanian Higher Media Council (HMC), national newspapers give more coverage to regional and international politics than they do to local issues. The seven newspapers studied were Al Anbat, Al Arab Al Youm, Al Diyar, Al Dustour, Al Ghad, The Jordan Times and Al Rai. According to the research, only one of them gave more space to local political news than...

6 December 2005 (RFE/RL) -- In an exclusive interview given to RFE/RL's Russian Service, Yelena Fedorova explained her reasons for submitting her resignation as information service editor at Russia's REN-TV. She told RFE/RL interviewer Anna Kachkaeva that her decision was motivated primarily by censorship on the part of the television station's management and its efforts to prevent her and fellow...

The US government released less information under the Freedom of Information Act in 2004 than in 2000, according to a newly released study by the Coalition of Journalists in Open Government (CJOG). Even though FOIA requests to federal agencies dropped by 13 per cent, their overall use of exemptions to screen information rose by 22 per cent, the report said. In refusing to release information far