2005-2014

Srinagar, Sept 13: First Kashmiri woman journalist and prominent literary personality Taj Begum Renzu died here today. She was 75. Wife of first Speaker of constituent Assembly Ghulam Rasool Renzu, Taj Begum was also the president of women's wing of National Conference before switching over to Congress. She was the first woman journalist in Kashmir who started a newspaper in Kashmiri, 'Alao'. She...

The Indian government has decided to grant accreditation to online journalists. The new Accreditation Guidelines for media persons have introduced the category of web journalists. The Union Ministry of Information & Broadcasting which grants accreditation to Indian as well as foreign mediapersons through its media unit Press Information Bureau (PIB), has revised the existing guidelines keeping in...

A move is afoot to arrest "the onslaught of negative reporting by the Western media which have tarnished the image" of Islam and Muslims. To start with, a meeting of senior officials of the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) member states Monday vouched for revamping of the International Islamic News Agency (IINA) and the Islamic States Broadcasting Organization (ISBO), Arab News has...

Embattled Hewlett-Packard Chairman Patricia Dunn resigned Tuesday in the face of trenchant criticism for ordering a controversial board investigation into boardroom leaks to the press. HP's probe into boardroom leaks dating back to 2005 sparked a media furore, as well as an inquiry by California's attorney-general that could result in criminal liability for identity theft and illegally accessing...

NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- Most media stocks have bounced back sharply this year after a brutal 2005 as investors began to realize that entertainment firms are positioning themselves for growth in the new world of digital media. And executives from several big media companies expressed even more optimism about the business and how they were adapting at an industry presentation Tuesday. News Corp...

Pamela Pekerman, who blogs about handbags at www.bagtrends.com, had to sneak into the Bryant Park tents during New York fashion week in February. Unable to secure hot invitations, she had to settle for watching models strut down the catwalk on a large video monitor outside the shows, or, worse, on the Internet. If she was lucky, she got a standing-room-only ticket. This fall is another story. Ms...

Bulgaria's leading online media Sofia News Agency and Darik News pooled efforts in a joint project, called DarikWeb, Inc. The company will be officially presented on September 13 at Radisson hotel, Sofia, 11 am by Maxim Behar, publisher of Sofia News Agency, and Radosvet Radev, owner of Darik News and private national radio broadcaster Darik. DarikWeb, Inc. sets out to be the leader in Bulgaria's...

At a blog conference held in Chennai last week, a prominently displayed banner read, “I killed the conventional media”. The conference was held along the lines of numerous such events in the United States, where Internet companies pay top dollar to send their executives to listen to college kids talk about blogging. This one was meant to trade techniques, share experiences and try and look at the...

The Iranian government has shut down four publications, including a major reformist newspaper, according to reports. The reformist daily, Shargh, or East, was shut down Monday indefinitely because it had refused to replace its managing director apart from publishing a cartoon in a recent edition that was considered insulting to the government, state television said, citing a statement from the...

A man purporting to lead an African branch of the al Qaeda militant network claimed responsibility on Tuesday for the beheading of a Sudanese newspaper editor who was found dead last week. The man, in a statement distributed to Sudanese newspapers, called editor Mohamed Taha a "dog of dogs from the ruling party", and accused him of insulting the prophet Mohammad. "Three individuals from this...