2005-2014

Ifra’s editors have launched a seven-part “Future Press” series in ‘newspaper techniques’ magazine examining the technology’s latest developments. The series, which starts this month with a detailed report on the prospects for digital newspaper presses, anticipates the continued essential role of presses and printing in the production of paged media in general and newspapers in particular, Twenty...

NEW YORK — Rupert Murdoch has proved naysayers wrong more than once — and could be in a position to do so again. The News Corp. chairman on Thursday announced the long-awaited launch of a business channel that will compete with CNBC for the small but lucrative audience interested in financial news. The Fox Business Channel, in the works for at least two years, will be overseen by Roger Ailes, the...

New York, February 9, 2007— The Committee to Protect Journalists deplores the reported death of prominent, award-winning journalist Fesshaye Yohannes, imprisoned without charges in September 2001, along with the majority of Eritrea’s independent press corps. Yohannes, founding editor of the defunct weekly Setit and a recipient of CPJ’s International Press Freedom Award in 2002, died in a prison...

He was known as the father of modern newspaper design. He helped redesign thousands of newspapers, wrote 27 journalism books and won numerous awards. But toward the end of his life, Edmund Arnold took simple pleasure in creating birthday cards for his fellow residents of Brandon Oaks Retirement Community. Arnold died Friday at Lewis-Gale Medical Center. He was 93. Arnold began his newspaper career...

Kuala Lumpur - A Malaysian court sentenced an Australian journalist to 10 months' jail after he pleaded guilty to changing price tags on clothes that he bought at a shopping centre in the capital Kuala Lumpur city, news reports said Friday. However, John Leslie Lefevre was allowed to walk free as the judge ordered his jail sentence to run from the date of his arrest on March 29 last year. Lefevre...

There is a rising tide of harassment of journalists and women’s rights activists in Iran by security officials. The most recent and shocking incident occurred on January 26 this year when 15 women journalists were detained for questioning by Ministry of Intelligence officials as they were about to fly out from Tehran to attend an educational workshop on journalism in India. The workshop was...

A Swiss military court has indicted three Swiss journalists working for the weekly SonntagsBlick for publishing a leaked document last year “dealing with supposed places of detention and interrogation methods used by the US foreign intelligence service (CIA).” The SonntagsBlick scoop came just three days after European human rights watchdog, Council of Europe, launched an investigation into a...

The UN war crimes tribunal on Wednesday sentenced a Croatian journalist to three months in prison after finding him guilty of contempt for revealing the the names and personal details of confidential witnesses who had testified in one of its cases. Croatian journalist Domagoj Margetic awaits the verdict of his case at the Yugoslav war crimes tribunal (ICTY) in The Hague, Netherlands, February 7...

NEW YORK: The Internet has allowed consumers to trade stocks without using high-priced brokers and let travelers book flights directly from airlines. Now it may free advertisers to make their own television commercials without going through a traditional ad agency. Several companies are offering automated ad creation over the Internet and, in some cases, ad placement services that all advertisers...

LONDON - The Daily Mirror has relaunched its website to feature increased video and user generated content and a greater emphasis on its sport, news and entertainment coverage. Publisher Trinity Mirror said the redesigned Daily Mirror website, which was created by MGN Digital, would feature embedded video players containing coverage of the website's three core areas of news, showbiz information...