2005-2014

A dozen companies that own about 250 daily newspapers are preparing to expand a ground-breaking partnership with Yahoo Inc. to share advertising and editorial content, several newspaper executives familiar with the situation said. The companies, facing the flight of readers and advertisers, are working with Yahoo to give wider Internet play to their news reports, draw users to their Web pages and...

Reporters Without Borders today called on the federal authorities to permit the reopening of two new, Lagos-based broadcast media, Link FM and GTV, which were abruptly closed by the security forces yesterday, three days before elections for state governors and state parliaments. “Elections should be a time when the government takes more care than ever to respect the rule of law,” the press freedom...

The National Union of Journalists is planning a "quality journalism" campaign to make sure that media workers can resist what it calls employers' attempts to "squeeze more and more" out of staff. Many journalists working on multimedia projects and new platforms such as podcasts were "approaching breaking point", warned the NUJ general secretary, Jeremy Dear. With the union's annual conference...

NEW YORK: With newspaper publishers scrambling to assemble lucrative online advertising alliances, McClatchy Co. has abandoned its nascent partnership with Tribune Co. and Gannett Co. to defect to another team of publishers negotiating a wide-ranging deal with Internet powerhouse Yahoo Inc., according to a published report. An agreement between Yahoo and the consortium — which already includes 12...

During the Easter weekend, Cedar City saw a strong example of citizen journalism. Darin Bloomfield, an SUU student, upon seeing a SWAT vehicle with its lights flashing cruising through his neighborhood, grabbed a video camera and began taping. When he realized he had something significant, he contacted various news organizations and provided the footage to them. The University Journal editorial...

Kolkata, April 12: Wage boards for journalists and non-journalist employees are likely to be constituted within this month, Union Labour Minister Oscar Fernandes said here today. "I am trying to constitute the wage boards very soon," Fernandes told newspersons here. Asked whether the wage boards would be constituted within this month, he answered in the affirmative. The government had on December...

Hearst Magazines has announced plans to launch a new consumer Web site that taps into the rapid rise in environmental consciousness in the U.S. The site, TheDailyGreen.com, is set to go live in beta form on April 22, i.e. Earth Day. The new venture’s development was lead by former Meredith and Primedia executive Deborah Jones Barrow, in conjunction with the Hearst Magazines Digital Media group –...

CHICAGO (MarketWatch) -- Gannett Co. said Thursday that it has agreed to sell four daily newspapers to GateHouse Media Inc. for $410 million. Gannett, the largest U.S. newspaper publisher, said it is selling the Norwich (Conn.) Bulletin; the Rockford (Ill.) Register Star; the Observer-Dispatch in Utica, NY; and The Herald-Dispatch in Huntington, W. Va. The transaction is expected to close at the...

CBS News said yesterday it planned to install a new level of editorial oversight to its Web site since revelations that the CBS anchor Katie Couric read a plagiarized commentary on the site last week. CBS has fired the producer who wrote the piece for Ms. Couric, and said yesterday it was investigating to see if the producer, whose name CBS has not disclosed, had written any previous commentaries...

Final print copies of InfoWorld, a 29-year-old weekly computer magazine, were shipped to subscribers last week. Death was attributed to plummeting print revenues and declining readership. "There's no guarantee anymore that when InfoWorld landed on a desk, it would be read," explained Bob Ostrow, InfoWorld's chief executive. At the same time, the magazine's online version is thriving. Killing off...