2005-2014

BEIRUT: It's been said that the vibrancy of a city's media culture is a good indication of that city's quality of life. A metropolis with a lot of magazines is a metropolis with a lot going on. If one were to survey the newsstands in Beirut earlier this summer, one would have been impressed with the number of new and established titles on display - a spate of fashion rags, business journals and...

Ukrainian public opinion could come even more under the influence of official views from Moscow following the announcement of a recent multi-million-dollar media purchase in the Russian capital. Moscow-based Kommersant Publishing House, which publishes one of Ukraine’s leading business dailies, Kommersant Ukraine, has been sold to Kremlin-connected tycoon Alisher Usmanov for about $300 million...

NEW YORK (AdAge.com) -- Magazines from Vanity Fair to Flaunt to Wired have all published special "green" issues designed to raise awareness and bring attention to rising concern over global warming and climate control. But none went as far as The Economist to directly address the impact their own publications have on the environment. 'Journalistically interesting' Emma Duncan, deputy editor for...

COLLEGE students are famous for their transient ways, moving frequently and rarely leaving a permanent mailing address for magazine publishers to send subscription solicitations to. For now, some magazine publishers are settling for their e-mail address. A new digital initiative to begin this month will give away thousands of magazine subscriptions to college students, but the magazines will be...

Google has launched a service that will permit Internet users to search through the archives of newspapers, magazines and other publications and uncover material that in some cases dates back more than 200 years. The new feature, Google News Archive Search, will direct users to both paid and free digital content on publishers' websites, but will not directly generate revenue for Google. TIMELINED...

(RSF/IFEX) - RSF has welcomed the arrest in Trinidad and Tobago of Ceferino García, suspected head of a drug cartel, alleged to have ordered the murder of Mauro Marcano, a programme host on a local Venezuelan radio station, Radio Maturín 1.080 AM, and columnist with the Venezuelan daily newspaper "El Oriental". The organization, however, condemned delays in the investigation and the failure to...

BEIJING (Reuters) - China has shut down a Chinese magazine's outspoken Web site, apparently because of the reported killing of a villager trying to stop demolition of his home, the editor said on Thursday. The online edition of the Baixing (People) Magazine, based in the eastern coastal province of Jiangsu, was closed on Wednesday, editor Huang Liantian told Reuters. The Web site contained reports...

SAN DIEGO – Like a surreal outtake of “Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy,” a crazed couple didn’t heed Will Ferrell’s character Burgundy’s “stay classy” advice. Two accused real estate scammers wailed viciously on a hapless local newsman reporting their alleged dirty deeds on live television. A television reporter was bitten and beaten as he and his cameraman, who captured the attack on video...

Kathmandu - A visiting international press freedom group advised Nepal's new government Thursday to make changes to preserve and strengthen press freedom in the country that emerged in April from direct rule by King Gyanendra. The group - headed by Christopher Warren, president of the International Federation of Journalists - gave a five-point recommendation to the ruling Seven-Party Alliance...

New York, September 7, 2006—The Committee to Protect Journalists is concerned by reports that an Iraqi journalist on trial for defamation has been missing since Sunday morning. A source told CPJ that Ahmed Mutair Abbas, managing editor of the defunct daily Sada Wasit in the southern city of Kut, called Sunday morning to say that he was on his way from Kut to Baghdad to attend his trial hearing...