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CHICAGO, April 11 (Reuters) - Kaplan Inc., an educational and career services provider owned by the Washington Post Co. (WPO.N: Quote, Profile, Research), on Wednesday said it acquired an online high school for undisclosed terms. Kaplan said it bought Sagemont Virtual, which has been doing business as the University of Miami Online High School, and Virtual Sage, a developer of online high school...

New York, April 10, 2007—Prosecutors in the Cameroonian capital, Yaoundé, today lodged criminal charges against the director of a private tabloid who has been detained by police since Saturday in connection with a story about an alleged sex scandal, according to local sources and press freedom group Journaliste En Danger. Georges Gilbert Baongla of the weekly Le Dementi, was charged with...

NEW YORK: Her day usually starts around 5:30 a.m. in her Montclair, N.J., home, when she consults her Treo to check news from Europe and Asia while many neighbors are still sleeping. After a few quick calls to foreign news bureaus, she heads off to catch the train. It's unlikely that any of her fellow passengers on NJ Transit's Midtown Direct to New York give her more than a passing glance as they...

April 10 (Bloomberg) -- President Vladimir Putin has already brought Russian newspapers and television to heel. Now he's turning his attention to the Internet. As the Kremlin gears up for the election of Putin's successor next March, Soviet-style controls are being extended to online news after a presidential decree last month set up a new agency to supervise both mass media and the Web. ``It's...

(CPJ/IFEX) - New York, April 9, 2007 - The Committee to Protect Journalists deplores the criminal charges filed against Yuri Chernogayev, correspondent for the German public broadcaster Deutsche Welle. Tashkent prosecutors charged Chernogayev on March 27 with "working without a license," under Article 190 of Uzbekistan's penal code, according to international press reports. Deutsche Welle reporter...

The Committee to Protect Journalists has called on the United States to release Bilal Hussein, an Iraqi photojournalist for The Associated Press, who has been held in a U.S. prison in Iraq for a year without charge. Hussein, a Pulitzer Prize winner, was taken by U.S. forces on April 12 in the western city of Ramadi, the capital of Iraq’s Anbar province, and held in a U.S. prison in Iraq for...

NEW YORK: Her day usually starts around 5:30 a.m. in her Montclair, N.J., home, when she consults her Treo to check news from Europe and Asia while many neighbors are still sleeping. After a few quick calls to foreign news bureaus, she heads off to catch the train. It's unlikely that any of her fellow passengers on NJ Transit's Midtown Direct to New York give her more than a passing glance as they...

The World Press Institute (WPI), which trained journalists from around the world about the role and responsibilities of a free press for 46 years, is shutting down, the victim of dwindling financial support from American news organisations. "This is a sad development," the institute's board chairman, Howard Tyner, said in a statement on the institute's website. "But in the short term at least...

The majority of students (87%) who upload copyrighted material to user-generated video sites likeYouTube, Facebook or MySpace don't get permission from copyright owners, even though most (74%) believe it is fair to pay people for their use. That's according to a new, albeit limited, study of college students who upload video to Web sites conducted by a pair of professors at American University and...

April 10, 2007 | It's no secret that the period of time between 9/11 and the invasion of Iraq represents one of the greatest collapses in the history of the American media. Every branch of the media failed, from daily newspapers, magazines and Web sites to television networks, cable channels and radio. I'm not going to go into chapter and verse about the media's specific failures, its...