2005-2014

Internet giant Yahoo has put blogs on an equal footing with news. The company has included blogs on all its news searches giving a major boost to personal journals that aim to compete with traditional journalism. Yahoo has created a three-tier system for finding news that starts with the links to top ten stories and related photographs produced by mainstream news organisations on the site. The...

The photo was of a motor-cross competitor taking a tumble from his motorcycle. The year, 1955. The award – the first ever World Press Photo of the Year. Almost every year since has seen a contest and a winning image. Some of the photos have become legion – a naked girl running after a napalm attack in Vietnam; a Buddhist monk who has set himself alight; a lone demonstrator standing in front of...

Eminent journalist and founder-director of the Press Institute of India (PII), Chanchal Sarkar, passed away in New Delhi on October 10. Sarkar, 79, had been ailing for some time. He is survived by his wife Lotika Sarkar, a noted women's rights activist and former professor of law at Delhi University. Former Prime Minister Inder Kumar Gujral, Rajya Sabha member Brinda Karat, and a large number of...

ADD ANOTHER REASON for newspaper companies to worry: It's now more expensive to buy the paper on which to print the words that fewer people are reading. Newsprint prices climbed about 11% in August and September as a host of commodity prices were pushed up by rising energy costs. Throw in worsening demographics – 55 is the average age of a newspaper reader, according to a Carnegie Corp. survey –...

Microsoft Corp. set off a storm of comments and feedback–both glowing and damning–this weekend when officials requested feedback on a proposed RSS icon redesign for the Internet Explorer 7.0 tool bar. Details about the planned RSS icon redesign emerged on the Microsoft RSS Team's Weblog on Saturday. "The choice of what icon to use is challenging because it should be universally symbolic, but today...

SAN FRANCISCO – Yahoo Inc.'s online news search tool on Monday added Internet journal entries as a supplement to professional media offerings – an experiment that figures to test the public's appetite for information from alternative sources. Under Yahoo's new approach, a keyword search for online news will include a list of relevant Web logs, or "blogs," displayed in a box to the right of the...

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Yahoo! Inc. said Monday it will begin featuring the work of self-published Web bloggers side by side with the work of professional journalists, leveling distinctions between the two. Yahoo! News, the world's most popular Internet media destination, is set to begin testing on Tuesday an expanded news search system that includes not only news stories and blogs but user...

Yahoo! has revamped its news search tool to grab material from thousands of blogs in addition to headlines from 6,500 newspapers and magazines. The company launched a test version of the new tool on Monday, saying it aims to give consumers a more complete view of the news. Neil Budde, general manager of Yahoo! News, said in a statement: "Our expanded news search dramatically increases the consumer...

The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ), the global organisation representing more than 500,000 journalists in over 110 countries, is alarmed at the King’s decision to dramatically change media laws in Nepal. On October 9, King Gyanendra announced changes to media law that would come into force immediately, limiting media licences, banning the broadcast of news on radio and prohibiting a...

Only two days after Nepal's monarch Gyanendra promulgated a draconian media ordinance Sunday banning news broadcasts on FM stations throughout the country, Nepal's FM stations continue to air news and are vowing to fight the "black ordinance" in the streets and the courts. "We are continuing with our news broadcasts," said Ghamaraj Luintel, spokesperson of Nepal's Save Independent Radio Movement...