2005-2014

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Media managers will get their hands dirty in 2006, experimenting with new and untested formats to find a better formula of reaching appropriate audiences. Executives speaking at the Reuters Media and Advertising Summit in New York this week pointed to dozens of new tactics worth trying, and others worth dropping, as growth in new media outlets disrupts the television-dominated...

Barely three days after the media lauded a rare conviction in the killing of a journalist, a reporter was shot dead Thursday night at a public market in the central Philippines, the 10th journalist to be killed this year, Reuters reported. George Benaojan, 27, was talking to a colleague at the public market in Talisay City on the central island of Cebu when a lone gunman shot him in the neck and...

Three myths that have been perpetrated and perpetuated by the Israeli media are already being employed by the various parties for their election campaigns. # The right-wing myth: Gush Katif has been forgotten. The parties to the right of the Likud - and even some of the Likud leadership contenders - are trying to harness public sympathy for the 10,000 evacuated settlers of Gush Katif and Northern...

It's -30- for New City News Service, which in journalism parlance means the end of the story. The news service that had its heyday in the Front Page era of Chicago journalism will cease operations Jan. 1, with owner Chicago Tribune folding many of its news gathering activities into its own 24-hour Internet-based news operation. The Tribune's decision to eliminate the 19 City News positions was...

Knight Ridder, under pressure from three major shareholders to sell the San Jose company, has begun soliciting preliminary bids from potential purchasers in an attempt to determine who might be interested in buying it, and how much they'd be willing to pay, according to sources familiar with the process. The move does not mean the nation's second-largest newspaper group and owner of The Monterey...

The fog surrounding Time Warner (TWX:NYSE - commentary - research - Cramer's Take) continues to thicken. Just as the media giant and its peers were uniting Tuesday against the threat of regulatory action, activist shareholder Carl Icahn dropped his own bombshell, naming as his new brother-in-arms the hard-hitting Lazard banker Bruce Wasserstein. Icahn's group, which controls 2.5% of Time Warner...

In my youth in the 1930s and in World War II, back in the days when Democrat Franklin Delano Roosevelt was president of the United States, when it was announced he would be speaking on the radio, throughout this nation families gathered around the radio and listened to what he had to say. The New York Times printed what he said IN FULL in its next edition. Yet, it is almost impossible, it seems...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Playboy (PLA.N: Quote, Profile, Research) is in talks to launch a men's magazine in India, but one that does not include its trademark nudes or even its name, Chief Executive Christie Hefner said on Thursday. The top-selling men's magazine in the world, which is rolling out an edition in Argentina soon, also wants to return to Italy and Australia, and is discussing joint...

Knight Ridder Inc., under pressure from its biggest shareholders to sell itself, has begun soliciting preliminary bids from potential buyers to determine who might be interested in buying it, according to people familiar with the process. The move does not mean the nation's second-largest newspaper group and owner of The Inquirer and Philadelphia Daily News has committed to a sale. Instead, the...

A trio of private-equity firms has formed an alliance to examine purchasing newspaper publisher Knight Ridder Inc., according to people familiar with the matter. The alliance -- consisting of the Blackstone Group, Providence Equity Partners Inc. and Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. -- is in early stages of preparation, these people say. But the buyout firms remain wary that the $4 billion market...