2005-2014

RUPERT MURDOCH is set to face a challenge to his family's control of News Corp at its annual shareholder meeting this month, after one of the world's most powerful shareholder advisers recommended fund managers back a move to change the company's share structure. Institutional Shareholder Services (ISS), which advises 2000 institutional investors globally with about a quarter of the world's...

Aizawl, Oct 4 (PTI) Mizos have to cope without newspapers for some days as an acute shortage of newsprint is hitting print media houses in Mizoram. Vanglaini, the most circulated vernacular daily in the state, could not be published today as there were no newsprint, said its editor K Sapdanga, who is also the president of the Mizoram Journalists Association. Another popular daily, The Aizawl Post...

LOS ANGELES: ABC News is assigning seven reporters to new overseas posts in what the network division said is its largest expansion of foreign bureaus in two decades. The reporters will be based in New Delhi and Mumbai in India; Seoul, South Korea; Jakarta, Indonesia; Rio de Janeiro, Brazil; Nairobi, Kenya, and Dubai in the United Arab Emirates, ABC News President David Westin announced on...

NEW YORK -- After two decades of cutbacks in international bureaus, ABC News is bucking the trend by creating one-person operations that will dramatically boost its coverage in Africa, India and elsewhere. The small offices, staffed by a reporter-producer with the latest in hand-held digital technology, cost a fraction of what it takes to run a full-time bureau. But the work they file will be...

Google's decision to spend $3.1 billion to buy little-known DoubleClick will affect the future of American media and the way advertisers tell stories about you and me. Eventually, if Google has its way, what we see on the Web, hear on the radio or read in print will largely be based on decisions Google computers make about how different we are and why. Already Google can likely say quite...

TOKYO (Reuters) - The body of a Japanese video journalist who was shot dead during a crackdown on pro-democracy protests in Myanmar was returned home on Thursday, and was due to be taken for an autopsy. The results of the investigation are likely be a factor as Japan weighs whether to take action against military-ruled Myanmar, such as cutting back economic assistance. Kenji Nagai, 50, was shot...

A senior journalist and noted industrialist of Aligarh was shot dead in front of his house here under the Banna Devi police station by unknown assailants on Monday night. City Superintendent of Police J.K. Shahi said Hari Om Aggarwal, a senior journalist with Punjab Kesri (Delhi), was shot dead as he was returning home from a friend's shop. The body has been sent for post mortem. Aggarwal’s...

DUBAI — Editors of leading Arabic and English newspapers in the UAE on Monday signed the Charter of Honour and Code of Ethics underlining their commitment to a responsible media which would ensure credibility, accuracy and unbiased nature of news content. The 26-article document which defines the rules and ethics of the journalistic profession, was drafted following the political leadership’s...

(IAPA/IFEX) - The Inter American Press Association (IAPA) has added its voice to a demand by the Peruvian Press Council that the South American country's judiciary and attorney general's office not allow the 2004 murder of journalist Antonio de la Torre to continue to go unpunished following the recent arrest of the alleged culprit. Moisés Julca Orrillo, accused of being one of those who allegedly...

(CMFR/IFEX) - A newspaper columnist critical of the Arroyo government has received a death threat via email warning her that her criticism of the regime may cost her life. Ellen Tordesillas, who writes for the daily newspaper "Malaya" and the daily tabloid "Abante", found the emailed death threat when she checked her inbox on 30 September 2007. The email was time-stamped 3:53 a.m. (local time) of...