2005-2014

MOSCOW, October 16 (RIA Novosti) - Russia's Supreme Court said Monday it has scheduled a hearing on an appeal against the acquittal of three people accused of murdering Forbes Russia editor Paul Klebnikov, for October 31. On May 5, a jury acquitted Fail Sadretdinov and two co-defendants, Chechens Kazbek Dukuzov and Musa Vakhayev, of Klebnikov's 2004 killing. Prosecutors in the case appealed to the...

Talks about the future of the US newspaper industry tend to revolve around two cities these days. There is Los Angeles, where staff at the Los Angeles Times last month rebelled against a distant corporate owner. And there is Chicago, home to that same owner, the Tribune Company, where a special committee is considering breaking up the group’s newspaper and television properties to satisfy...

Anatoly Voronin, 55, Tass's business manager, died "from stab and slash wounds", a spokeswoman for the Moscow prosecutor's office said. The business chief of Russian state news agency Itar-Tass was found knifed to death at his flat in central Moscow on Monday, but prosecutors said the killing could be linked to a personal dispute. Anatoly Voronin, 55, Tass's business manager, died "from stab and...

One of the founders of Wikipedia is days away from launching a rival to the collaborative internet encyclopaedia, in an attempt to bring a more orderly approach to organising knowledge online. Wikipedia – which is available to be written and edited by anyone on the internet – is one of the most visible successes of mass collaboration on the web, with many of its 1.4m articles appearing high in...

Blogger and anarchist Josh Wolf, spending his 57th day in federal prison today for refusing to surrender video he shot of a violent San Francisco protest, is well on his way to becoming the longest-jailed journalist in U.S. history. To the government, the 24-year-old San Franciscan is hindering a federal grand jury investigation into serious crimes -- an attack on a police officer who suffered a...

The Pentagon is brushing off a request for more information and a decision on an Associated Press photographer held for six months in Iraq without formal charges. In a letter to the Committee to Protect Journalists, Bryan Whitman, a Pentagon spokesman, does not provide details about why Iraqi photographer Bilal Hussein remains at a U.S. run prison camp. The letter repeats the military’s long...

(October 15, 2006) -- Prudential equity research analyst Steven Barlow released his fourth comprehensive study on circulation in mid-September. The report mainly charted the progress in cutting other-paid circulation — a category that has been under intense scrutiny thanks to a renewed focus on so-called "quality circ." But Barlow and his team also weighed in on the subject of readership, a metric...

LONDON: To Steve Rubel, senior vice president at the public relations firm Edelman, there is a "conversation gap" on the Internet between America and the rest of the world. Like Americans, Europeans and Asians have become fervent bloggers. But many of them contribute to U.S.- based sites, or to local-language blogs that are fragmented and obscure. Why should marketers care about this? Corporate...

New Delhi, Oct 15 (IANS) The 'Great Indian Media War' is set to get hotter and bloodier, with two of the country's biggest players and visceral rivals joining hands to produce a common city-centric newspaper to ward off newer rivals threatening their decades-old dominance. Industry insiders have reacted to the "strange" alliance between The Times of India (TOI) group and The Hindustan Times (HT)...

Over the weekend, at almost the same time the world was informed that Google was vying to pay US$1.65 billion for YouTube, a two-year-old video-sharing Web site, famed Russian journalist Asnna Politkovskaya was gunned down in Moscow. Politkovskaya covered human-rights abuses in Chechnya. She was also a vocal critic of Russian President Vladimir V. Putin, and Russian authorities consider her death...