2005-2014

NEW YORK A Syrian journalist often used as a fixer for Western news outlets has taken responsibility for a Cox News Service story that contained fabricated quotes and plagiarized material. George Baghdadi, a Syrian who has worked for USA Today and Time magazine, among other Western news outlets, took responsibility for the errors in an e-mail to Cox Newspapers' Washington Bureau Chief Andy...

France has given the go-ahead to a long-planned Gallic rival to CNN, the international rolling news channel. La chaine francaise d'information internationale (CFII) is expected to start broadcasting in the second half of 2006. Jacques Chirac, French president, said it was necessary to be in the "front rank in the global battle of images" to project France's world view abroad. The channel will...

NEW YORK -(Dow Jones)- "The Journal Editorial Report," a current-events television program produced by Dow Jones & Co.'s (DJ) Wall Street Journal, has found a new home at the Fox News Channel. The TV show, which was launched in September 2004 on the Public Broadcasting Service and features members of the Journal's editorial board, will air its final episode on PBS on Dec. 2. It will begin airing...

The Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) has announced the final advertising creative guidelines for broadband video commercials online. These creative guidelines were set after an extensive review of industry feedback over the past few months. The IAB has developed a compliance programme to assist advertisers in identifying those publishers and technology providers who are compliant with these...

Newspaper publisher Daily Mail & General Trust (DMGT) beat forecasts with an 8 per cent rise in annual profit, but said it was contemplating the possibility of selling its regional newspaper business. Pre-tax profit before amortisation and impairment of intangible assets and exceptional items was �253.4 million for the year to October 2, up from �234.1 million the year before, a DMGT statement...

The Orlando Sentinel on Tuesday laid off 21 employees throughout the company as it joined other U.S. newspapers struggling to cope with declining circulation and rising costs. The cuts came less than two weeks after the paper announced that it would need to eliminate jobs to improve its financial performance and adapt to market changes. In addition to the layoffs, 33 vacant positions won't be...

The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has condemned the one-year prison sentence imposed on Jean-Léonard Rugambage, a Rwandan journalist who reported alleged corruption among judges in the semi-traditional "gacaca" courts. GENOCIDE SCAPEGOAT: Belgian Catholic priest Guy Theunis (R), accused of taking part in the 1994 Rwandan genocide, talks with an unidentified person inside the high court

A Sierra Leonean editor jailed for writing articles attacking the president has had his sentence quashed, BBC reported. Paul Kamara, who had been convicted for seditious libel in October 2004 and sentenced to two years' imprisonment, was freed Tuesday night after the Sierra Leone Appeals Court overturned the verdict of the High Court. FREED IN FREETOWN: Paul Kamara, who also serves as chairman of

The number of registered blogs in China has more than doubled since the beginning of this year, according to a market research firm in Beijing. China had 33.4 million registered blogs at the end of the third quarter, up more than 100 per cent since January, when it had 14.5 million blogs, said research company Analysys International. Blogs, or Web logs, are personal Web sites that are similar to...

The Australian and British governments colluded to cover up the killing of five Australian-based journalists in East Timor in 1975, new documents have revealed. Five television journalists – Greg Shackleton, Gary Cunningham, Tony Stewart, Malcolm Rennie and Brian Peters – were killed while covering Indonesia's invasion of East Timor. LAST SHOT: The word "Australia" and an Australian flag painted...