2005-2014

The question over who will be granted overall control of the internet from next year is proving the most controversial part of a worldwide conference being held in Geneva as we speak. The United States, which currently has overall control of the internet, is refusing to allow other governments to take the lead role, arguing instead that companies, organisations and individuals made the Internet...

Banc of America Securities said it continues to believe that the Internet "is in the midst of a multi-year share grab of ad dollars, with Yahoo! (nasdaq: YHOO - news - people ) and Google (nasdaq: GOOG - news - people ) poised to be among the biggest beneficiaries." On the newspaper side, Banc of America said that companies with the strongest franchises and "more-national exposure" will see...

The call for entries for 10th annual 'Webby Awards' has begun with an early entry deadline of 28 October 2005 and a final entry deadline of 16 December 2005. The awards are the international honours for websites and the innovators behind them. In its 10th year, the Webby Awards is being presented by The International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences, a 500-member body of leading web experts...

Congressional leaders are all atwitter over Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez' new satellite television station, Telesur, which has begun broadcasting four hours a day, financed by its host country and also Argentina, Uruguay and Cuba. Telesur hopes to be accepted regionally, and promises news through Latino eyes, produced by professional journalists from the region. Telesur is likened to Al...

The general in charge of Louisiana's hurricane relief has admonished reporters not to confuse questions with answers, and urged them to give the public facts -- not exaggerations and rumors that several media organizations now say corrupted coverage of Hurricane Katrina. "Don't get stuck on stupid, reporters," Lt. Gen. Russel Honore first told them last week. "We are moving forward. And don't...

An Aljazeera cameraman, held at the Guantanamo Bay prison camp, has been promised release if he spies on his colleagues at the channel, Britain's The Guardian newspaper reports. The Guardian reported on Monday that the US military told Sami Muhyi al-Din al-Hajj that he would be released as long as he agreed to spy on journalists at Aljazeera. In documents seen by the Guardian newspaper, al-Hajj...

Internet advertising revenues continue to rise sharply as new media outlets profit at the expense of traditional rivals. Online advertising revenues in America increased by 26 per cent in the second quarter of 2005, compared with the same period last year, according to figures from the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) and PricewaterhouseCoopers. The pace of growth matched that for the first...

NEW YORK - Nearly all people spend a third of their day using two or more media at the one time, often without even realising that they are doing so, a new report has found. The Middletown Media Studies II report revealed that people spent an average of nine hours a day consuming media, including watching TV and radio, as well as spending time on their computers, reading books and using the...

PRINCETON, NJ -- Half of Americans say they trust the mass media when it comes to reporting the news fully, accurately, and fairly, according to Gallup's annual Governance survey. Trust and confidence in the news media is up significantly since last year, but it is still slightly lower than what Gallup has found in recent years. The most common view of the political leanings of the news media is...

DOHA/MADRID: Al Jazeera channel and international media groups yesterday denounced the sentencing of the channel’s correspondent in Spain yesterday to seven years in jail on terrorism charges. Tayseer Allouni was found guilty by Spain’s High Court of collaborating with a terrorist group but acquitted of being a member of Al Qaeda. He was among 18 people sentenced at the trial, the biggest of...