2005-2014

Reporters of the Islamic Republic News Agency's (IRNA) office at UN Headquarters in New York have been slapped new restrictions by the US government to deter activities in covering news events, it was reported here Tuesday. The IRNA website in Manhattan district has been blocked since 22:00 hours Friday (local time). After several contacts with Manhattan officials, the office was told the problem...

MOSCOW, September 12 (RIA Novosti) - Russia's Supreme Court upheld a lower court decision rejecting a motion against a southwest Siberian news agency following a media scandal over cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed, a court source said Tuesday. Satirical cartoons of the Prophet were published in a Danish newspaper last September and subsequently reprinted by other Western media earlier this year...

NEW YORK/LONDON (Hollywood Reporter) - The news, when it came to CBS News in New York early on Memorial Day, May 29, was horrifying. A car bomb had exploded in a relatively quiet Baghdad neighborhood as a CBS News crew was following a U.S. Army Fourth Infantry Division unit on a routine patrol. Cameraman Paul Douglas and soundman James Brolan were killed instantly, along with the soldier they were...

WASHINGTON – With all the tumult in the news media today - the decline of the old media, the rise of the citizen journalist, the startling discovery that a woman can, in fact, read a teleprompter from behind a big desk just like a man - it is sometimes the subtle changes that go unnoticed. Take, for example, the recent decision by Time magazine to hit the newsstand on Fridays instead of Mondays...

BEIJING, Sept 12 (Reuters) - International press groups denounced new Chinese curbs on the dissemination of foreign news as a step backwards ahead of the 2008 Beijing Olympics, when thousands of journalists will descend on the country's capital. The official Xinhua news agency announced rules on Sunday requiring foreign media to seek its approval with immediate effect to distribute news, pictures...

Traditional US media companies are increasing their share of the fast-growing online advertising sector relative to internet rivals such as Google and Yahoo, according to a new study. In one of the first detailed reports of the relative positions of traditional media companies and their online competitors, Veronis Suhler Stevenson, the private equity group, has shown that, contrary to many people...

DETAILS on the scrapping of Australia's cross-media and foreign media ownership rules, the allocation of new digital spectrum and increased regulatory powers for the Australian Communication and Media Authority will be unveiled this week. Fierce lobbying is still taking place on the thorny issue of anti-siphoning regulations covering broadcast rights to major events, as media lobbyists gather in...

Colombo, 12 September, (Asiantribune.com): The Footwear Association of Sri Lanka has published its first monthly newsletter Footwear Newst to increase awareness of local small and medium sized footwear manufacturers. Issuing a press notice Chairman of the Association Mr.K,L.Chandralal de Silva says small footwear manufacturers always need assistance of the large scale footwear manufacturers to...

NEW YORK: Eric Alterman, perhaps the first writer to get a blog on a mainstream national news site, has been dismissed after 10 years by MSNBC.com. "P.S., I’m Fired," he heads an email to others in the media. His blog, Altercation, however, will be picked up by the liberal site Media Matters. He will also become a senior fellow there. Alterman has also been a longtime columnist at The Nation...

NEW YORK: Attempting to blunt buzz in the blogosphere about an alleged "Spy for Saddam," the Associated Press released a retort late Monday by Linda Wagner, director of media relations and public affairs, terming the charges "absurd." The AP statement explains the background. It follows. * All the information in a handwritten Arabic document from Iraq that some blogs claim to be evidence that an...