2005-2014

By incorporating several vehicles that can encompass print, online, broadcast and geo/demographic targeting, newspapers offer creative, viable solutions for their recruitment advertisers. In order to use these platforms to best effect, however, it is critical that both publishers and recruiters understand how consumers incorporate various media resources into their job search process. To explore...

"Just this once, the big news of the day isn’t in the papers. It is the papers." January 29th is going to be observed every year as ‘Indian Newspaper Day,’ as per the summons of the Indian Newspaper Society. This is the day when the first newspaper was born and spun into print. The creatives furnished for the occasion are hard-hitting and compelling. Instances maybe an expanse of empty white space...

Technology that allows advertisers and readers to better connect continues to drive economic changes in the news business. The Internet hammered the newspaper classified business over the past decade, and now new technology for placing display advertising on Web sites promises to challenge remaining news industry business models. Many journalists don't give much thought to what happened on the...

On the website for last week's Blogging, Journalism & Credibility Conference at Harvard, many articles, comments and links are posted. Here are a few points emphasizing the distinctions between traditional journalism and online news that the Editors' Weblog considers valuable: Organic news vs. Investigative reporting: Jimmy Wales, founder and CEO of Wikipedia says of his Wikinews experiment that...

Taysir Alluni could never have suspected that the 9/11 attacks and the US war against Afghanistan in its hunt for al-Qaida and Taliban leaders would dramatically change his life. Alluni, who began his career as an Arabic translator for a news agency in Granada, Spain, is credited as being the only journalist based in Afghanistan in October 2001 to show the world what the US war machine was doing...

America Online on Tuesday confirmed that it will stop supporting access to newsgroups, a once-popular feature on the Internet that has since become overshadowed by message boards and blogs. The Internet giant has begun informing users that its AOL Newsgroup interface will be discontinued as early as February, according to a notice posted on the site. AOL users will still be able to access...

Global opinion leaders’ trust in established institutions (business, government, media) and figures of authority (CEOs, heads of state) is being supplanted by a personal web of trust that includes "colleagues," "friends and family," "a person like yourself" as well as independent experts such as doctors and academics, according to the sixth annual Edelman Trust Barometer, a survey of 1,500...

Some rights reserved. That's the watchword of Creative Commons, a non-profit organization dedicated to building an alternative framework for copyright protection. A Creative Commons license, which allows the creator of original work to specify how it can be used, is both more faithful to the purpose of copyright than current law and better suited to the realities of a digital age. Creative Commons...

The re-arrest of correspondent Taysir Alluni has once again highlighted the issue of press freedom, in particular the hostile treatment of Aljazeera's journalists. In the past three years alone, Aljazeera has come under repeated pressure for its uncompromising reporting. This has ranged from physical - sometimes fatal - attacks, intolerable working conditions, and accusations of irresponsible and...

The journalist Taysir Alluni is possibly best known for securing an exclusive interview with Usama bin Ladin after the 9/11 attacks on America. Sadly this success possibly lead to the second cause of his recognition. Alluni is now known the world over as the Aljazeera journalist arrested by Spanish authorities on alleged links to terrorism. Below is a brief outline of the life of Alluni. Born in...