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The World Association of Newspapers (WAN) hasn’t much patience with the doom and gloom pundits who constantly report that newspapers are a dying industry, so this week it has produced some updated statistics to show the good news that newspaper circulation globally is growing and new newspapers are being launched far more frequently than may have been thought. But at the risk of sounding like one...

New York, February 7, 2007— The Committee to Protect Journalists expressed concern today at the government’s indefinite removal of a new private television station from the air by cutting its use of a state-owned transmitter. Nation Television Uganda (NTV) went off the air Saturday after officials at the Broadcasting Council (BC), an official media regulator, switched off its transmitter and...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Nearly 90 percent of all U.S. companies polled in a new study will use part of their marketing budgets to advertise in new media like video games or virtual communities. The survey by the American Advertising Federation underscores the shift in advertising spending away from television, magazines and, particularly, newspapers, which have suffered badly from declining...

MUMBAI: More than half of communications industry executives believe that Internet Protocol Television (IPTV) can generate significant revenue within the first three years of service, according to findings of a survey released by Accenture and the Economist Intelligence Unit. The survey of nearly 350 executives from telecom, broadcasting and media companies across 46 countries in the US, Europe...

Egyptian human rights organisations have called upon the Supreme Council of Press (SCP) to comply with the law and not to hinder the publication of the newspaper Al-Badiel, which has met all provisions for release as set by the law. The legal 40-day period for the announcement of any SCP objection has passed with neither a response nor the approval of a licence for the newspaper. A journalist

Blogger Josh Wolf now holds the troubling record as the longest-jailed journalist for contempt of court in recent American history. Wolf, who is refusing to comply with a grand jury subpoena for his testimony and video outtakes, has spent 169 days in a federal prison in California as of February 6. He has now spent more time behind bars than author/journalist Vanessa Leggett, who spent 168 days in...

Reaching new markets, content delivery and distribution, and digitisation have emerged as the top strategic focus of Indian media and entertainment (M&E) companies, according to a leading innovator in the IT market research industry. Many Indian M&E firms are looking at investments in technology as a way to more effectively deliver their content to new audiences, especially cities and towns...

An Asahi Shimbun photographer who was found to have plagiarized from a Yomiuri Shimbun article has also plagiarized from another article in the Yomiuri and yet another from a local newspaper in Niigata, the Asahi announced Tuesday. The Asahi said it would fire the photographer, Toshimichi Niwa, 46, who belonged to its photograph center. He was transferred to its Tokyo headquarters' administrative...

Buys brand from Bharat Hotels. Mumbai’s popular afternoon tabloid Mid Day will hit Delhi next month. Its publisher Midday Multimedia Ltd has bought the “Mid Day” title back from the Delhi-based hospitality company Bharat Hotels promoted by the late Lalit Suri. The hotelier and Rajya Sabha MP owned the brand name and had been printing Delhi Mid Day in the city for 15 years. Earlier this week, The...

Media groups based along the Thai-Burmese border claim that threats against them have hindered their ability to cover news about conflicts among leaders of the Karen National Union. Reporters with the Mae Sot-based Karen Information Center and an international broadcaster with the BBC Burmese Service say they have received threats after publishing news reports on the growing strife within the...