2005-2014

PARIS (Reuters) - A French doctor has described some of the media coverage of the world's first partial face transplant as "odious" and said it could have a bad effect on the 38-year-old patient. Jean-Michel Dubernard, one of the surgeons who carried out the operation in northern France on November 27, said in remarks published by Le Monde newspaper on Monday that the woman was recovering well...

Dec 5 - As the owners of the nation’s second-largest newspaper chain seek to sell, staffers at many of the news outlet’s 32 daily newspapers may face unresolved labor issues while Knight Ridder attempts to make itself more attractive to potential buyers. The prospect has been discussed in union publications since the company first indicated it might open up to bids. It came to the fore last week...

A decade ago, as Knight Ridder Chairman Tony Ridder hosted an annual meeting with his newspapers' editors, he was asked what concerned him most about the business, what kept him awake at night. "Electronic classifieds," Ridder replied, according to two people who were present. His response struck some as arcane. But in 2005, that answer carries significantly more meaning, as newspapers see both...

CCORDING to Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia, John Seigenthaler Sr. is 78 years old and the former editor of The Tennessean in Nashville. But is that information, or anything else in Mr. Seigenthaler's biography, true? The question arises because Mr. Seigenthaler recently read about himself on Wikipedia and was shocked to learn that he "was thought to have been directly involved in the Kennedy...

CAIRO, Dec. 4 (UPI) -- Arab-American relations have reached a critical stage. Misconceptions, on both sides of the divide, threaten to undermine the desires of mainstream citizens for peace, stability and democratic progression. Mass media in the Middle East, and the broadcast sector in particular, stand the greatest chance of helping bridge the gap of understanding and repair some of the damage...

The Moroccan government has blocked access to websites dealing with the Polisario Front's struggle for Sahrawi independence. Western Sahara websites like arso.org, cahiersdusahara.com, cahiersdusahara.com, wsahara.net and spsrasd.info have all been rendered inaccessible in Morocco since November 21, according to Paris-based press freedom group Reporters sans Frontières (RSF). A man shows a card

There's this scene in the movie The Longest Day – after the Allies have stormed ashore at one of the least-protected parts of Nazi-occupied Europe – where a German general slaps his forehead. "Normandy," he says. "How stupid of me." Before yesterday, it didn't take acute psychic powers to know that some sort of big media deal was coming with BCE Inc.'s Bell Globemedia at the centre. But now that...

Siddharth Varadarajan, deputy editor of The Hindu, has been awarded the United Nations Correspondents Association (UNCA) Award for excellence in journalism. The award was presented by UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan at the 10th annual UNCA Awards Dinner in New York on Friday. Sir Brian Urquhart (also inset) seen here with Dag Hammarskj�ld (right). Varadarajan was awarded the silver medal in the...

Viscount Rothermere’s decision to put 97 Northcliffe titles on the market has been likened to selling off the family silver. But as the rise of the internet threatens to take the shine off the heirlooms, he must find new ways to deliver. Report by Dominic Rushe and Mark Kleinman As they filed into the oak-panelled Kensington boardroom of Daily Mail & General Trust (DMGT) last Tuesday, the mood...

THAT old fox Rupert Murdoch has frightened the chickens again. He recently barked that the newspaper industry’s "rivers of gold" – by which he meant the revenues from classified advertising – were drying up. Panic has ensued in some henhouses. In Media File recently, I wrote about how Knight Ridder, the second largest newspaper chain in the United States, had been forced to put itself up for sale...