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The Mail & Guardian Online launched The News in Photos earlier this week, a new service which leverages what new media pundits term Web 2.0 technologies. Allowing readers to submit their own photographs and comment and interact with each other, the website organises news photographs into galleries accessible via a multimedia interface. “This is our most visible step so far to embracing audience...

NEW YORK, Feb 16 (Reuters) - The AtlantaJournal-Constitution plans to eliminate about 80 newsroom jobs and cut its circulation 5 percent, it said on Friday, in the latest restructuring to hit the struggling newspaper industry. The AJC, which is owned by privately-held Cox Enterprises, is restructuring the newsroom to balance its resources between its print paper and its Web site, following similar...

Lauren Rich Fine, Merrill Lynch & Co.'s top-ranked newspaper industry analyst and a voracious newspaper reader, is optimistic about the future of newspapers - even if her teenage children won't pick up the print editions. "Interest in news is greater today than it's ever been," she said. And while interest in newspapers themselves has declined, the companies likely to survive view the Internet as...

Reporters Without Borders voiced deep concern today about the disappearance last night of Subramaniam Ramachandran, the correspondent of the Tamil dailies Thinakural and Valampuri in the Vadamaradchi region north of Jaffna. The organisation said it was worried about the cruel lack of protection for media personnel in this region. “Alarming acts of violence against journalists and human rights...

Feb. 16, 2007 · Testimony ended this week in the perjury and obstruction of justice trial of former White House aide I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby, signaling the forthcoming conclusion of a trial that has subjected both the White House and the Washington journalism community to uncomfortable scrutiny. In the end, three journalists testified for the prosecution and seven testified for the defense...

Two US reporters have avoided going to jail after their source revealed himself in a criminal plea agreement. The two San Francisco Chronicle reporters, Lance Williams and Mark Fainaru-Wada, faced up to 18 months in prison for refusing to name the source who provided them with secret grand jury testimony about alleged steroid use by professional athletes. San Francisco Chronicle reporters Lance...

A majority of Americans believe bloggers are important to the future of American journalism and three out of every four feel citizen journalism will play a vital role. A new WE Media/Zogby Interactive poll has relevealed that most respondents (53 per cent) also said the rise of free Internet-based media posed the greatest opportunity to the future of professional journalism and three in four (76...

A Venezuelan juvenile court has slapped a fine against an opposition daily for publishing a tongue-in-cheek newspaper editorial based on a dialogue between President Hugo Chávez and his 9-year-old daughter. The director of Tal Cual opposition newspaper, Teodoro Petkoff, right and comedian Laureano Marquez, centre, at a press conference in Caracas, Wednesday, February 14, 2007. Marquez, one of

The much-awaited hearings on the July 2004 murder of Forbes Russia Editor Paul Klebnikov have been put off until mid-March after two key suspects failed to appear in court Thursday, news agency RIA Novosti has reported. Paul Klebnikov's 2004 murder stoked international concern about freedom of speech in Russia, an issue pushed back into the spotlight by the killing last year of crusading Russian

The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on the government of Philippines President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo to drop sedition charges against critical The Daily Tribune publisher and two columnists. In its February 14 case against publisher Ninez Cacho-Olivares and columnists Ramon Señeres and Herman Tiu-Laurel, the government said their writing could “lead or stir up the people against lawful...