2005-2014

"Come on, don't be shy," mumbles an ageing C-list Bollywood actor to a girl on a grainy video shown on an Indian news channel last year. "I want to make love to you." This, most say, marked the nadir of sting journalism in India - an out of work actor had been seemingly entrapped by a journalist posing as a sweet talking young aspiring actress. The channel was unfazed - viewership leapt three-fold...

(IFJ/IFEX) - In response to the recent deterioration of the security situation in the country, which has contributed to an uncertain environment in which the media operates, a group of editors and journalists from South Asia is visiting Sri Lanka from 23-25 October 2006. The Mission members include: Bharat Bhushan, Editor (Delhi), The Telegraph; Prateek Pradhan, Editor, The Kathmandu Post, Nepal...

PARIS – Restrictions on civil liberties due to the 'war on terrorism' have undermined media freedom in the United States and Russia over the past year, journalists' rights group Reporters Without Borders (RSF) said. RSF's 2006 Worldwide Press Freedom Index released on Tuesday, a survey of censorship, intimidation and violence against journalists, found Finland, Iceland, Ireland and the Netherlands...

LAST week The New Yorker named Rupert Murdoch as "arguably the world's most powerful media executive". After lunching with the "king maker" and interviewing his senior courtiers, reporter John Cassidy described how Murdoch secures political access and disseminates strong, but not always predictable, political views through his global media network. Murdoch tends to support the Iraq war, tax cuts...

A new report seeks to debunk the conventional wisdom that print, as an ad medium, is on the decline. The study, by Marketing Evolution, El Dorado Hills, Calif., and commissioned by the Magazine Publishers of America, looks at 19 marketers, including Ford, Johnson & Johnson, Motorola and Target, and measures the efficacy of their ad buys in magazines, on the Internet and TV from late 2004 through...

"What kind of business are we in?" is the rather plaintive title of a panel at this year's American Magazine Conference, which began Sunday in Phoenix. And that is exactly the question that magazine executives are asking themselves these days. Publishers of even the best-known and most successful American magazines are finding both the present and the future challenging and confusing. They know...

Reuters has launched a new round of cost cutting, this time with travel and expenses in the spotlight. The chief executive, Tom Glocer, has imposed 30% cuts to travel and entertainment budgets on the global news organisation's 15,300 staff. The news was delivered to staff in an intranet posting in which Mr Glocer said that "tough measures" were needed to achieve "greatness". He also said that the...

Reuters has launched a new round of cost cutting, this time with travel and expenses in the spotlight. The chief executive, Tom Glocer, has imposed 30% cuts to travel and entertainment budgets on the global news organisation’s 15,300 staff. The news was delivered to staff in an intranet posting in which Mr Glocer said that “tough measures” were needed to achieve “greatness”. He also said that the...

HANOI - Vietnam has suspended a business magazine and is considering revoking the press credentials of all its reporters and editors in an ongoing crackdown on state-controlled media’s critical reporting, local news outlets reported on Sunday. The Ministry of Culture and Information signed the decision to suspend Kinh Doanh & San Pham magazine on Sunday, according to the online newspaper VNExpress...

NEW YORK: The tragically backward, sometimes absurdist hallmarks of the People's Democratic Republic of Korea and in particular its leader, Kim Jong Il, are well known. There's Kim's Elton John eyeglasses and cotton-candy hairdo, for instance. A newer, more dangerous sort of North Korean eccentricity registered around 4.0 on the Richter scale earlier this month - a nuclear weapon test broadcast on...