2005-2014

The White House demanded Thursday that the Pentagon hand over information about a secret U.S. military operation to plant news stories in the Iraqi news media, and senators plan to meet behind closed doors with military commanders to learn about the information offensive underway in Iraq. Press Secretary Scott McClellan said the White House was "very concerned" about reports that a defense...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Internet advertisers and marketing professionals have a message for television networks: get ready to change the way you work. As Internet advertising grabs a bigger share of marketing budgets and ad agencies tailor spots to a new medium where attention spans can be measured in split seconds, television networks will have to adjust, executives told the Reuters Media and...

Promised cuts came Thursday to the Chicago Tribune, with a net loss of 28 editorial positions, the end of its stand-alone WomanNews section and the demise of a legendary local news service. New City News Service, the descendant of the City News Bureau that sent a young Mike Royko and generations of other cub reporters onto Chicago's streets to chronicle crimes and fires, wound up in the morgue...

Newsday yesterday dismissed 72 employees from across the newspaper and announced that 40 additional vacant jobs will be eliminated. No "news gathering personnel" were affected by yesterday's announcement, according to a memo to employees from publisher Timothy P. Knight, issued yesterday afternoon. The move comes a month after the newsroom staff was reduced by 59 people, largely through buyouts....

The Morning Call will end publication of Chronicle Newspapers, its chain of 11 weekly community papers, as part of cost-cutting measures that include layoffs in other departments, officials said Thursday. The newspaper will permanently lay off about 5 percent of its workers, spokeswoman Vicki Mayk said. That amounts to almost 50 people based on The Morning Call's employment of 950. he paper, one...

JERUSALEM, Dec 1 (Reuters) - Israeli forces have arrested a reporter for the Web site of the Arabic satellite channel Al Jazeera television station in the West Bank town of Hebron. Awad Rajoub, 29, was arrested at his home there on Wednesday evening, Walid al-Amari, Al Jazeera bureaux chief for the West Bank, Gaza and Jerusalem, said on Thursday. Israel has not explained the arrest, he told...

Threats to mainstream media seem to be coming from all sides. If news aggregators like Yahoo/Google and classifieds like Craigslist were not enough, the latest threat from cyberspace comes in the form of independent local sites, says a new report. Borrell Associates, a leading research and consulting firm covering local advertising, in its report, "Independent City Sites Gain Steam," has detailed

Are the media and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in Japan friends or foes? How should the media cover NGOs? Should NGOs stage media stunts? Those were some of the questions posed to a panel of activists and journalists in Kyoto last month. Though the Japanese civil society sector has traditionally been smaller than in other major developed countries, the growing role of NGOs is one of most...

For a missing child to attract widespread publicity and improve the odds of being found, it helps if the child is white, wealthy, cute and under 12. Experts agree that whites account for only half of the nation’s missing children. But white children were the subjects of more than two-thirds of the dispatches appearing on the Associated Press’ national wire during the last five years and for three...

The newspaper publisher Trinity Mirror has started a new round of job cuts, which could see some 750 workers axed at its regional and national titles, in a further sign that the industry is struggling. The news follows the shock announcement earlier this week that Daily Mail & General Trust was bailing out of the regional newspaper industry with the sale of its Northcliffe division. News...