2005-2014

Among people who research products and services after seeing them advertised in newspapers, two-thirds (67 per cent) use the Internet to find more information. Of that group, nearly 70 per cent of consumers actually make a purchase following their additional research. A study commissioned by Google, conducted by Clark, Martire & Bartolomeo shows that consumers trust ads appearing in newspapers

At a time when newspapers across the United States are trimming sections and hundreds of pages, the Dallas Morning News is taking a 180-degree turn by rolling out a new print product, says an Editor & Publisher report. The new offering, titled Briefing, is a free, 16-page broadsheet that will be home delivered to non-subscribers of the Morning News every Wednesday through Saturday. It launches...

Reporters sans Frontières (RSF) has called is calling on European Commissioner for external relations, Benita Ferrero-Waldner, to raise the problem of risks to journalists covering fighting in the Palestinian territories at the Israel-EU Association Council meeting in Luxemburg on June 16. “The death of Fadel Shana, of the British news agency Reuters, on 16 April 2008, has reawakened our concern...

The Burmese junta has taken a series of measures in the past few days to control news and information coming out of the cyclone-hit Irrawaddy delta According to Paris-based Reporters sans Frontières (RSF) and the Burma Media Association (BMA), an organisation of Burmese journalists in exile, the blogger and comedian known by the stage name of Zarganar was arrested without explanation on June 5...

Mexican police botched the murder investigation of a journalist working near the US border in 2004 by torturing suspects and mishandling evidence, the country's human's rights commission said, according to a Reuters report. Roberto Mora, editorial director of El Manana newspaper in Nuevo Laredo, just across the border from Laredo, Texas, regularly wrote columns about drug trafficking and corrupt...

The editor-in-chief of the opposition-aligned, Khmer-language daily newspaper Moneakseka Khmer in Cambodia has been arrested. Dam Sith was arrested on Sunday by plainclothes police at a car wash and interrogated for several hours at the national military police headquarters in the capital, Phnom Penh. A criminal court charged Dam Sith the same day with defamation and disinformation in connection...

One of the Philippines' top TV reporters and her two assistants have been abducted, the ABS-CBN network said on Wednesday, after the team went missing on an island that is a hotbed of Islamic radicals linked to Al-Qaeda. The country's largest television network said that Ces Drilon, cameraman Jimmy Encarnacion, and assistant cameraman Angelo Valderama had been abducted for ransom on Jolo island...

Nsimba Embete Ponte, editor of the privately-owned twice-weekly newspaper "L'interprète", and his assistant, Davin Ntondo Nzovuangu, were transferred June 6 from the National Intelligence Agency (ANR), on the bank of the Congo River, near the prime minister's office, to the court of Matete, in Kinshasa, according to Journaliste en danger (JED). The two journalists were held incommunicado, for 90...

A new 90-day extension of a detention order has been issued against Sri Lankan journalist J.S. Tissainayagam, who has been held without charge since his arrest on March 8. Tissainayagam is being detained under the Emergency Regulations (2005) Act. The latest detention order was issued by the Terrorist Investigation Division (TID) of the Sri Lankan police force on June 5. TID has refused to provide...

The appointment of French President Nicolas Sarkozy's alleged ex-girlfriend to the country's most prestigious TV news position has taken the country's media landscape by storm. Fortyone-year-old Laurence Ferrari is to replace France's most popular and influential news reader, Patrick Poivre d'Arvor, as the host of France's most-watched news programme, the evening news on TF1. Liberation and Le...