2005-2014

RIYADH (Reuters) - Muslim tycoons should buy stakes in global media outlets to help change anti-Muslim attitudes around the world, ministers from Islamic countries heard at a conference in Saudi Arabia on Wednesday. Information ministers and officials meeting under the auspices of the 57-nation Organisation of the Islamic Conference (OIC), the world's largest Islamic body, said Islam faced...

MUMBAI: Newspaper publisher Jagran Prakashan Ltd said on Wednesday it had agreed with Ireland's Independent News Media Plc to publish the facsimile edition of Independent newspaper from New Delhi. The Indian company has sought the Information and Broadcasting Ministry's approval for this, Jagran's Chief Financial Officer RK Agarwal said. The company hopes to obtain the approval in a month, he said...

New York, September 13, 2006—The Committee to Protect Journalists condemns the murder of an Iraqi photographer today in Baghdad and a journalist in Diyala province yesterday by unidentified gunmen. Safa Isma’il Enad, 31, a freelance photographer for several outlets including the now-defunct newspaper Al-Watan, was shot in a photo print shop in Baghdad’s Ur neighborhood, according to the...

Jakarta --- When criticized for the over-the-top soap operas, invasive gossip shows and bloody crime programs that dominate their schedules, most TV stations protest their innocence by claiming they only give the people what they want. But if the results of a new survey are to be believed, the stations will have to find either a new excuse or new programs. According to the survey, TV viewers want...

MADRID, Spain - The Spanish national news agency Efe is moving its Latin America text and photo editing desks from Miami to Bogota, Colombia, a company spokeswoman said Tuesday. Ana Vaca de Osma said the decision was made in an effort to be closer to clients in Latin America, and had nothing to do with the company's revenue or market share in the United States. Efe's Spanish-language coverage of U...

NEW YORK -- Time Inc. will prune its huge magazine portfolio, by seeking buyers for 18 of its smaller titles, leaving it to concentrate on larger properties like Time, People, and Sports Illustrated. Titles to be sold include Popular Science, Outdoor Life, Field & Stream, and Yachting, said someone familiar with the matter . News of the planned sales was reported earlier Tuesday by Advertising Age...

SINGAPORE, Sept 13 (Reuters) - Singapore's prime minister and his father, the founding father of the city-state, have filed a defamation suit against the publisher and editor of the Far Eastern Economic Review (FEER), according to court documents. Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong and former premier Lee Kuan Yew filed the libel suit against Hong Kong-based Review Publishing Company Ltd and FEER...

Australian newspaper publisher John Fairfax Holdings has joined News Corporation in refusing to support planned changes to the country's media ownership laws. Fairfax, the second largest newspaper publisher in Australia behind News Corp, has opposed the government reforms, which analysts believe would lead to a spate of takeovers. "The government's media package as it currently stands has become...

KHARTOUM (Reuters) - A senior Sudanese politician threatened to resign on Tuesday over what he said was the resurgence of censorship against Sudanese newspapers since the assassination of a journalist last week. Yasser Arman, deputy secretary-general of the former southern rebel Sudan People's Liberation Movement (SPLM), said he could no longer enforce Sudan's constitutional rules on freedom of...

TIKRIT, Iraq - An Iraqi journalist for a mass-selling Arabic language newspaper said she was released Wednesday after being arrested for allegedly helping insurgents. Kalshan al-Bayati, 33, of the London daily Al-Hayat, was arrested two days ago at her home in Tikrit, the hometown of Saddam Hussein, about 180 kilometres (110 miles) north of Baghdad. "They released me," Bayati said on Wednesday. "I...