2005-2014

NEW YORK, May 14 (Reuters) - A U.S. soldier being tried in absentia in Rome for killing an Italian intelligence agent in Iraq said on Monday that he did nothing wrong and blamed the death on an Italian reporter who was rescued by the agent. Washington has refused to hand over Mario Lozano, from the U.S. National Guard in New York, so he is on trial in absentia for killing Nicola Calipari as the...

Beijing - A rise in the percentage of ad spending allocated to Internet and mobile media will intensify pressure on magazine publishers to adapt a fast-changing business landscape or die off, speakers at a key international publishing industry conference said in Beijing on Monday. "The magazine industry faces more and more competition," said John Ross, a consultant with the Boston Consulting Group...

NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- It's media merger mania all over again on Wall Street. With News Corp (Charts, Fortune 500). making an unsolicited $5 billion offer for Dow Jones (Charts), Thomson hoping to buy Reuters in a merger worth $17.5 billion and potential deals in the works to take Clear Channel Communications, Cablevision and Tribune private, it would seem to be a great time for investors to...

(RSF/IFEX) - Reporters Without Borders has condemned a 12 May 2007 attack by members of the MQM (an extremist party that supports President Pervez Musharraf) on the offices of Aaj TV and the "Business Recorder" daily (a member of the same media group) in the southern city of Karachi, in which gunmen opened fire on the building while the station was providing live coverage of the MQM's violent, pro...

(PPF/IFEX) - Aaj TV, a leading television channel in Pakistan, came under gunfire attack for almost six hours on 12 May 2007 during clashes between government supporters and opposition activists that took the lives of 36 persons in Karachi, the country's largest city. The attackers also set ablaze vehicles in the parking lot of the television network. Elsewhere in the city, a number of journalists...

LOS ANGELES: A local news Web site's editor who hired two reporters in India to cover suburban Pasadena said he's been so overwhelmed by handling reaction to his plan that he had to postpone publication of their first stories. James Macpherson said he hasn't found the time he hoped to have to train one of his new staffers to cover Monday night's City Council meeting, which is shown live on the Web...

After being accused by Radar magazine of stealing an article, the Chilean magazine Cosas said it had been hoodwinked by a reporter and had withdrawn the issue from newsstands. Radar’s March/April issue cover article, “Toxic Bachelors,” depicted celebrities as cads; an article in the April issue of Cosas, “Solteros Tóxicos,” featured the same celebrities behaving boorishly and included what...

A journalist and a media worker were shot dead Sunday in a renewal of clashes between Fatah and Hamas in the Gaza Strip. Gunmen wearing presidential guard uniforms stopped a taxi carrying Suleiman Abdul-Rahim al-Ashi, 25, an economics editor for the Hamas-affiliated daily Filistin ( Palestine), and Mohammad Matar Abdo, 25, a manager responsible for distribution and civic relations, Editor-in-Chief...

LOS ANGELES: A local news Web site’s editor who hired two reporters in India to cover suburban Pasadena said he’s been so overwhelmed by handling reaction to his plan that he had to postpone publication of their first stories. James Macpherson said he hasn’t found the time he hoped to have to train one of his new staffers to cover Monday night’s City Council meeting, which is shown live on the Web...

Infosys BPO (formerly Progeon) and media company TV18 have entered into a strategic alliance to launch Source18, a media process outsourcing company that will offer a range of services to media and entertainment companies globally. Among its first few clients is National Geographic International (NGCI). The new firm will re-purpose current as well as archival content for the mobile platform. This...