2005-2014

NEW YORK — Who says the mainstream media don't respect the blogosphere? CNN is trying to incorporate bloggers directly into its coverage of next week's midterm elections by inviting them to an "E-lection Nite Blog Party," an event aimed at corralling some of the top online opinion makers in one place to provide instant reaction as the results come in. The cable news network plans to host more than...

Thomas James Hurst of The Seattle Times has won first prize in E&P's annual Photos of the Year contest. He receives $1,000 and a Canon EOS-1D Mark II N digital SLR camera. The seventh annual Photos of the Year contest, sponsored by Canon, produced a record number of entries this year. Prize-winning photographs were selected from hundreds of entries in four categories (news, features, sports, and...

The last decade of 20th century was a period of epochal upheaval in India. The Congress monolith fragmented under mounting pressure of religious, casteist and regional aspirations; tottering economy found remedy in liberalisation and, as a result, burgeoning politico-economic consciousness in the Hindi heartland ensured proliferation of Hindi newspapers. For the first time, Hindi press posed a...

New York, October 30, 2006—The Committee to Protect Journalists condemns Sunday’s murder in central Baghdad of a presenter and a driver for the Iraqi state television channel Atyaf. Unidentified gunmen killed Naqshin Hamma Rashid, 30, and her driver Anis Qassem as the two were driving to work near Haifa Street in the morning, according to CPJ sources. Rashid, a Kurd who was also known by...

New Delhi, Oct 30 (IANS) India could review the 26-percent foreign equity cap in news and current affairs publications if stakeholders take a collective view on the matter, Information and Broadcasting Minister Priyaranjan Dasmunsi said in an important declaration of intent Monday. 'Let the industry decide and get back to me. We will then review the policy. We have an open mind,' Dasmunsi told a...

NEW DELHI: Figure this out. Even as the government busies itself with a policy to put Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) from countries such as China, Hong Kong and Macau under an intense security scanner (Pakistan and Bangladesh are already excluded from the benefit of automatic FDI) even for soaps and shampoos, it is quite oblivious to the security threat posed by attempts to fudge something as...

TEHRAN (Reuters) - A state-owned Iranian newspaper resumed publication on Saturday, more than five months after it was banned for insulting Iran's Azeri minority. The Culture Ministry's Press Supervisory Board suspended the Iran daily on May 23 after publishing a cartoon that offended Azeris and led to days of unrest in northwestern provinces, where Azeris make up a large majority of the...

NEW YORK -- At Google Inc.'s new office near the Hudson River, Volvo's top U.S. advertising manager has just flown in from California to talk about next year's launch of a new car, aimed at the hip, 20-something crowd. Linda Gangeri, a Volvo executive, wants to hear Google's ideas about online video. She high-fives the company for its recent decision to purchase online video phenomenon YouTube Inc...

OAXACA, Mexico (AP) - Violence in a troubled Mexican province has left an American journalist from New York dead and several other people injured. Protesters in Oaxaca (wuh-HAH'-kah)have barricaded streets and occupied government buildings for five months in a bid to oust the governor. The gunfire erupted in a rough neighborhood when armed men tried to remove a blockade set up by protesters. Both...

(FMM/IFEX) - Free Media Movement (FMM) registers its strong condemnation of continuing threats and harassment directed at Tamil-language media in Sri Lanka. On 23 October 2006, 10,000 copies of the Tamil daily newspaper "Virakesari" were burned by a paramilitary organization, the Karuna group, which operates in the east of Sri Lanka, relevant authorities of "Virakesari" told FMM. This is only the...