2005-2014

Asian and Pacific journalists now have until October 26 to apply for a fellowship program that would send them to learn and travel with U.S. colleagues in Hawaii, India and Pakistan. The next Jefferson Fellowships are scheduled for February 5 to 26, organized by the Honolulu-based East-West Center. The program brings journalists from Asia, the Pacific and the U.S. together to learn about issues...

Over the past years, the digital technology and Internet has become a major arena for broadcast media. Web-based television broadcasting is proving an attractive field for traditional electronic media and for communication in various sectors. Panos South Asia (PSA) is organising a 7-day South Asian regional — TV, Digital Technology and Online Broadcasting Training Workshop’ for media practitioners...

Journalists have a key role to play in fighting corruption, drugs and other problems that afflict the world of sports. That’s a major premise of an upcoming conference on coverage and oversight of sports. Sports journalists from around the world will gather with executives and experts at Play the Game 2005, scheduled for November 6 to 10 in Copenhagen, Denmark. The theme is "Governance in Sport...

Broadcast journalists from developing countries have until November 1 to apply for funding to attend a course in the Netherlands on globalization and broadcast news. November 15 is the deadline for self-paying or sponsored journalists. The Radio Netherlands Training Centre (RNTC) is organizing the course, scheduled for February 6 to April 28 in Hilversum. Its aim is to better train broadcast...

NEW YORK (CNN/Money) - It's true. There is a liberal bias when it comes to the media... many investors are biased against big media stocks this year and they have liberally sold their shares. The stock prices of the four major media and entertainment firms – Walt Disney (Research), Viacom (Research), News Corp. (Research) and Time Warner (Research) -- are down an average of 11.2 percent through...

SAN JOSE, Calif., Oct. 3 /PRNewswire-AsiaNet/ - Spy Media announced today the launch of the first news photo marketplace for everyone to buy and sell news photos. Starting today, the site is available for uploading uncensored news photos. Uploading will be free for the month of October. Uploaders must be the original author, provide written expression, structured profile information and adhere to...

LOS ANGELES -- Is Marilyn Monroe the answer to the hard times at the Los Angeles Times? After five years of sagging circulation and advertising, new managers at the Times are pushing for more coverage of Hollywood and celebrities. They want shorter stories and more regional reporting in the intensely competitive bedroom communities around Los Angeles. And there is a campaign for more combination...

The Washington Post is a bloated newspaper that should cut its voluminous and often dull output by a third to attract more readers, some say. The Washington Post's rich offerings have attracted an incredibly loyal core of readers who would be alienated by a drastic personality change, others say. The people who hold these divergent views all work for the capital's biggest paper, and they are...

Talks between the broadcast networks and cable operators to bring prime-time entertainment shows to video-on-demand platforms are beginning to take on a more serious tone. There’s a strong chance that some networks could launch on-demand services on some systems as early as next summer and almost certainly by the start of the 2006-07 season. What’s fueling this new sense of urgency is the...

For the first time in its history, the Internet is running a real risk of fracturing into multiple and perhaps even incompatible networks. At a meeting in Geneva last week, the Bush administration objected to the idea of the United Nations running the top-level servers that direct traffic to the master databases of all domain names. That's not new, of course--the administration has been humming...