2005-2014

PRAGUE, September 26, 2006 (RFE/RL) -- Relatives of jailed Uzbek journalist Ulugbek Khaidarov say they are concerned about his health. Nortoji Khaidarova told RFE/RL's Uzbek Service today that family members who visited her brother in prison thought his speech and behavior were strange. Khaidarova said Khaidarov's wife Munira was the last relative to see him, on September 23 "They hardly gave her...

After four years and four months as CEO of Time Warner, Richard D. Parsons is running out of options to solve his most vexing problem: share-price paralysis. He has settled federal accounting investigations, cut debt, bought back stock, turned AOL into a free service, and Sept. 12 announced the sale of 18 of its magazines. None of these moves has pushed shares above $19. Now he's readying to play...

Microsoft launched on Monday an effort that combines its various global ad products and services under one umbrella for advertisers. With its new Digital Advertising Solutions, Microsoft will deliver companies' ads to Windows Live, Xbox Live, Office Online, Live Search and MSN users via computers, smart phones, handheld computers and Xbox game consoles. "As today's consumers spend more and more...

It seems hopeless. How can the newspaper industry survive the Internet? On the one hand, newspapers are expected to supply their content free on the Web. On the other hand, their most profitable advertising--classifieds--is being lost to sites like Craigslist. And display advertising is close behind. Meanwhile, there is the blog terror: people are getting their understanding of the world from...

NEW YORK (AdAge.com) -- Magazine publishers striving to make or beat their annual numbers are digging out an old tool for late-year cost containment: the hiring freeze. Hachette Filipacchi Media U.S., where ad pages through August are down 6.1%, according to TNS Media Intelligence, has a freeze under way. And at Time Inc., where pages are off 2.9% through August, the heads of finance and human...

MOSCOW (RNWire) - OAO RBC Information Systems (RTS, MICEX: RBCI) has published the debut issue of a full-color business newspaper RBC Daily today, which was previously accessible to Internet users only. The newspaper RBC Daily accumulates RBC's broad experience in providing financial and economic news, which is essential for any successful business. Using RBC's resources, the newspaper will give...

Beirut, 25 Sept. (AKI) - Throughout the war in July and August, when Israel mercilessly bombarded Lebanon and Lebanese Hezbollah militias fired rockets into northern Israel one of Israel's main targets was al-Manar, a satellite channel part owned by Hezbollah. The network, which offers 40 percent news programmes, managed to broadcast almost uninterrupted from a secret location. But now that there...

There are two ways of calculating a publication's success. One is counting sales (the ABC way). The other is by a massive poll (the National Readership Survey way). But polling - as the NRS's own client services manager admits - has its problems: 'Our estimates are based on a relatively large sample of 36,000 adults per annum but, as with any other survey ... those estimates are subject to...

Earlier this week a Belgian court ruled that Google could not use material from French-language Belgian news sites without paying a fee. The ruling followed a case brought by Belgium's Association of Newspaper editors challenging the right of Google to run their news aggregator under the current copyright laws. While Google removed the newspapers Le Soir, La Libre Belgique and La Derniere from its...

CELEBRITY photographer Jamie Fawcett has won round one in a legal battle against Fairfax newspapers, with a jury finding yesterday he was defamed by a gossip columnist over the alleged bugging of Nicole Kidman's Sydney home. The former private detective sued over a January 20 article by Annette Sharp in The Sun-Herald's entertainment section. In what Fawcett's barrister Bruce McClintock described...