2005-2014

ISLAMABAD: Strongly condemning the show cause notice issued by Pakistan Electronic Media Regulatory Authority (PEMRA) to Private TV channel, Alliance for the Restoration of Democracy (ARD) has termed it attack on electronic media. ARD has submitted adjournment motion in the National Assembly to discuss the issue in the House. Parliamentary Secretary of Pakistan Peoples Party Parliamentarian Azhar...

April 25 (Bloomberg) -- Google Inc. passed Microsoft Corp. and Yahoo! Inc. to become the owner of the world's most-visited group of Web sites for the first time, a research firm said. Google's sites had 528 million visitors worldwide in March, a 13 percent gain from the same month a year ago, ComScore Inc. said today. Microsoft had 527 million, while Yahoo had 476.3 million, the researcher said...

The world's biggest and best-known online encyclopedia is going offline for its latest offering. The Wikimedia Foundation, the group behind user-generated encyclopedia Wikipedia, has announced it intends to produce a CD of about 2,000 of its articles. The CD will bear the moniker "Wikipedia Version 0.5" and cover areas such as the arts and sciences and subjects such as geography. It will come with...

MPA member blogs now stand at 400. Not to be outdone, 75 percent of the nation’s largest newspapers currently blog on business related topics. The Magazine Publishers of America has released an online listing of the approximately 400 blogs established by its publishing members. Although there are 32 publishers—among them Fortune, Forbes, Scientific American, Popular Science, Popular Mechanics...

New York, April 24, 2007—The Committee to Protect Journalists condemns the brutal attack on Uzeyir Jafarov, an editor and reporter for the Azeri-language daily Gündalik Azarbaycan, in the capital, Baku. Two unidentified men beat Jafarov as he was leaving the newspaper’s office Friday night, according to the journalist and international press reports. Earlier that day, Jafarov had testified in...

Islamabad - As Pakistan weathers its seventh week of crisis over the suspension of Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry, state authorities are tightening the screws on local media during their tenacious coverage of the highly politicized case. Licences for new media projects have been suspiciously withheld, lucrative government advertising contracts pulled in the wake of critical reporting, television...

The Denver Post on Monday extended voluntary-buyout offers to about 90 newsroom workers in a move aimed at trimming costs amid an industrywide downturn. The Post will accept as many as 37 buyouts by early June. The paper currently has about 268 workers in its newsroom. The offers come one year after The Post eliminated more than a dozen newsroom positions, also through voluntary buyouts...

The Tribune Company is expected to announce staffing reductions as early as today at its flagship Chicago Tribune as well as its largest-circulation newspaper, The Los Angeles Times, as revenue in the newspaper industry declines. While no official announcement had been made about the cuts, reports in both newspapers late last week, citing informants they did not identify, said they were imminent...

New York, April 23, 2007—The Committee to Protect Journalists is very concerned about the effective closure of the Educated Media Foundation in Moscow last week. The foundation, the successor to Internews Russia, has been shut down since last Wednesday, when economic police searched its premises for 11 hours, seized all financial records, and shut down the organization’s servers. At noon last...

Think of the time and cost of establishing a successful restaurant. Then picture yourself as a regular customer who goes to your favourite table, enjoys the meal, settles the bill and then spots on the way out a notice that if you'd eaten on the terrace everything would have been for free. The assumption must be that the restaurateur has gone mad. Yet that was the analogy drawn by multimedia...