2005-2014

Whatever other reasons may explain the lack of women’s voices on the nation’s op-ed pages, the lack of women asking to be there is clearly part of the problem. Many opinion page editors at major newspapers across the country say that 65 or 75 percent of unsolicited manuscripts, or more, come from men. The obvious solution, at least to Catherine Orenstein, an author, activist and occasional op-ed...

Hindustan Times group Editorial Director Vir Sanghvi is joining the INX Media group that has planned a bouquet of news and entertainment channels in different languages. Sanghvi would be the chief executive of the new company and editorial head of the news channels, promoted by Indrani Mukerjea, the chairperson of the venture and the wife of former chief of STAR TV’s India operations Peter...

The second jury trial of two men in the July 2004 murder of Forbes Russia Editor Paul Klebnikov had to be postponed again Wednesday after one of the defendants went missing. It was the second time that Kazbek Dukuzov, who is 32 or 33, failed to turn up at the Moscow City Court. Dukuzov missed a February hearing. Musa Vakhaev, accused of murdering U.S. journalist Paul Klebnikov, speaks to...

Suspected September 11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed has confessed to the beheading of American journalist Daniel Pearl, a central role in 30 other attacks and plots in the US and worldwide that killed thousands of victims, said a revised transcript released Thursday by the US military. Wall Street Journal reporter Daniel Pearl, who was kidnapped and killed in Pakistan in 2002, is pictured in...

Italian journalist Daniele Mastrogiacomo abducted by the Taliban in Afghanistan last week has appeared in a video shown on television Wednesday appealing to Premier Romano Prodi to work for his release. TV grab from Euronews shows an image from video footage, received by non govenmental organisation Emergency, of Italian reporter Daniele Mastrogiacomo who was abducted 10 days ago by a Taliban...

NEW YORK -- Online jobs service Monster Worldwide Inc. is working with privately held software company Adicio to supply classified advertising to 250 US newspaper websites, Monster said yesterday . The deal allows Web news outlets to let job seekers and employees list themselves on Monster services. Monster users can buy print advertising with news outlets that use Adicio. It also would let Adicio...

Stockholm- A jailed Swedish-Eritrean journalist was on Wednesday awarded a newly created freedom of speech prize by the Swedish Association of Publicists. As of Wednesday, Dawit Isaak has been imprisoned for 2,000 days in his native Eritrea in east Africa and was unable to attend the award ceremony in the Swedish capital Stockholm. To mark the occasion, the editors of the culture sections of six...

The media across the United States are celebrating Sunshine Week with all smiles. This is because of the freedom of information, which is entrenched in the Constitution of the United States. However, the picture in Africa remains somber and bleak for journalists and independent media. The reporters from the continent have nothing to celebrate. Several decades after most African governments...

Police officer Monzart Castro Brasil, 53, convicted of the murder of a Brazilian journalist, was rearrested by the Brazilian police last February 28. Brazil had been convicted and sentenced in September 2003 for the murder of Manoel Leal de Oliveira, the editor and founder of the daily newspaper "A Região". The murder took place in 1998 in the state of Bahia, in the country's northeast. A popular...

March 14 (Bloomberg) -- Time Warner Inc. agreed to pay $117.7 million to settle a lawsuit brought by the California Public Employees Retirement System over the 2001 merger with AOL. Calpers's 2003 suit alleged accounting irregularities at AOL, the Internet service company that combined with New York-based Time Warner in January 2001. The settlement is Time Warner's fourth this year related to the...