2005-2014

MOSCOW, October 10, 2006 (RFE/RL) -- Anna Politkovskaya's death bears many trademarks of a contract killing. If it is determined that is the case, she will join a staggering list of 12 fellow journalists who are believed to have been slain by hired killers since Russian President Vladimir Putin came to power in 2000. The New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), which recently named...

NEW YORK, Oct 10 (Reuters) - U.S. newspaper publishers are expected to report tepid quarterly results this month as a weak housing market, slower economy and the Internet weigh on advertising revenue. Gannett Co. Inc. (GCI.N: Quote, Profile, Research), the largest newspaper publisher in the U.S., will kick off the season this Wednesday with analysts expecting an 11.5 percent drop in profit to $262...

The Big Three U.S. auto manufacturers. Downtown department stores. Video rental stores. Minicomputer manufacturers. All fell, or are falling, in the face of competitors who used disruptive innovations to change the game. Is there reason to believe that old-school newspaper companies can survive? After spending a year studying the problem in the course of the “Newspaper Next” project that Innosight...

VARANASI: Denied a chance to file his nomination for the corporation elections, a 40-year-old man tried to immolate himself here on Monday, allegedly after being provoked by a television channel reporter to take the extreme step as a protest. The condition of Ghurelal Sonekar, a vegetable vendor and a BSP worker, was stated to be critical with 90% burn injuries. An FIR was also registered against...

A cameraman filming in Iraq with the ITN reporter Terry Lloyd recounted the terrifying moment when they came under fierce fire from American troops, which killed his colleague. Daniel Demoustier told an inquest into Mr Lloyd's death that he was convinced he was going to die as American tanks opened fire on the ITN convoy as it approached Basra in southern Iraq on March 22, 2003. Mr Demoustier, a...

President Bush has described today’s Iraq as a “young democracy.” He even boasted at one point that the advance of democratic institutions in Iraq is “setting an example” that others in the area would be “wise to follow.” But when it comes to one of the most basic tenets of democracy — freedom of speech and the press — Iraq is not setting an example that even the youngest of democracies would be...

The time European consumers spend online has, for the first time, overtaken the hours they devote to newspapers and magazines, a study revealed. But the growth of new media is expanding total media consumption rather than simply cannibalising print and television. Print consumption has re-mained static at three hours a week in the past two years, as time spent online has doubled from two to four...

FOR the first time in the county’s history after independence, a national news agency, United News of India, has been virtually handed over to a multiple business monopoly Media West, Essel, a group with motley interests including amusement parks, education, telecommunications, and IT. Add to it the fact of it being a leading media player with over 20 channels, DTH companies, cable distribution...

COPENHAGEN, Denmark: The fifth free newspaper aimed at Danish readers hit the streets on Friday even though a glitch cut its planned print run by half. Nyhedsavisen was handed out at key traffic points and distributed directly to homes in Denmark's major cities. Nyhedsavisen (The News Daily) had a planned circulation of 500,000 but half of them — intended for readers in the Danish capital — failed...

(RSF/IFEX) - RSF has expressed deep concern about death threats made against two journalists who voiced opposition to the government and a climate of fear which has also left another journalist targeted in a shooting holed up in a hotel for the past three months. Joaquín Morales Solá, political columnist for the daily "La Nación", and Jorge Fontevecchia, chief executive of the publishing company...