2005-2014

Yahoo! has made its first move into original online video programming by hiring a seasoned TV news reporter to report on wars worldwide. "Kevin Sites in the Hot Zone" launches Sept. 26 and will focus entirely on his travels as a war correspondent, The New York Times reported Monday. Yahoo!'s Lloyd Braun told the Times the Web portal is looking to develop signature programming news, sports, health...

Yahoo said Monday it will add the role of online news generator to its familiar role as news aggregator with firsthand reports from areas of armed conflict around the world. Starting later this month, the portal company plans to feature reports by Kevin Sites, a veteran television correspondent, to be the single source of news for "Kevin Sites in the Hot Zone." Mr. Sites, 42, is a self-styled...

NEW YORK – Internet media company Yahoo Inc on Monday said it had hired a veteran war correspondent to tell personalized tales from conflicts around the world in a bid to bring younger viewers back into the news fold. Journalist Kevin Sites, whose video footage of a U.S. Marine shooting dead an unarmed Iraqi prisoner in a Falluja mosque last year prompted widespread controversy, will visit 31...

Yahoo News is sending a veteran war correspondent on a journey to cover every armed conflict in the world within a year. Yahoo Inc. announced Monday that it is launching Kevin Sites in the Hot Zone. The accomplished combat journalist will embark on the solo trip Sept. 26. He will combine the key multimedia elements, including exclusive video feed, text and audio, to narrate stories about the...

SANTA MONICA, Calif. - Yahoo, in its first big move into original online video programming, is betting that war and conflict will lure new viewers. Lloyd Braun, the former chairman of ABC's entertainment group who now oversees Yahoo's expanded media group in Santa Monica, has hired Kevin Sites, a veteran television correspondent, to produce a multimedia Web site that will report on wars around the...

Newspapers and television stations, as many people know, have been losing readers and viewers for years. But in New Orleans over the last two weeks, when news was precious, the local media's customer base - and its advertisers - literally vanished, exiled from home in a vast diaspora beyond the reach of telemarketers and ad salesmen. New Orleans media outlets, including The Times-Picayune and...

hirty years after the Internet was created as a communications system of last resort, the network fulfilled its mission during the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina – but in ways more sweeping than its founders could have imagined. It reunited families and connected them with shelter. It turned amateur photographers into chroniclers of history and ordinary people into pundits. It allowed television...

These days, the Bush administration doesn't seem well enough organized to have an enemies list, but if it did, it's clear that some of the upper rungs would be reserved for photojournalists. First, the administration prohibited the press from taking pictures of the flag-draped coffins of U.S. servicemen and women killed in the Iraq war. The ban's ostensible purpose was to protect the privacy of...

LONDON (AP): Britain's Guardian newspaper launched its trimmer format Monday with color on every page, upping the competition with other British broadsheets that have scaled down in recent years. The Guardian is the third major British paper to move to a smaller, more commuter-friendly format in a bid to reverse slumping sales. It followed The Times and The Independent in switching to tabloid...

The problems confronting the small and medium newspapers with special focus on North East was deliberated upon at a seminar organised by the Indian Newspaper Society in Guwahati earlier this month. Initiated by Sunil Dang, Chairman, Small And Medium Newspapers Committee, the seminar turned out to be quite successful in identifying the difficulties and problems of member publications in the North...