2005-2014

Free weekly newspapers have been around for years, but the launch of London's third free daily on Monday is further evidence that the public seems less inclined to pay for their news fix. First we had the "price wars", when in the 1980s various newspapers slashed their cover prices to as little as 10p in a bid to outsell their opponents. Now we have the "no price wars", the battle of the freebie...

In what could signal a sweeping change in the way magazine advertising is bought and sold, Time is seriously considering the elimination of its rate base, the circulation it guarantees to advertisers. While the Time Inc. newsweekly would not be the first publication to do so, it would be by far the most prominent, as one of the magazine industry’s leading titles, and the largest-circ newsweekly...

A newspaper war is about to begin on the streets of London, involving Rupert Murdoch's News International and Associated Newspapers, owners of the Evening Standard. Londoners, for a while at least, will have a choice of three evening papers, two of them free. This has caused excitement in the metropolitan press, particularly on the media pages. But the real story has been missed. Across most of...

New Delhi, September 3: A woman journalist was allegedly assualted by the Chief Medical Officer of Sushrusta Truama Centre in N Delhi on Saturday evening. According to the journalist, the incident took place while she had gone to the trauma centre in the line of her work. “Alongwith a newspaper reporter, I had gone to the centre to find out about a child — Shahid, from Balli Maran — who was...

LONDON (Reuters) - They may not know it, but hundreds of workers lining up across central London to hand out free newspapers on Monday are on the front line of a high-stakes media battlefield. In the one corner sits Rupert Murdoch's News International (NWS.N: Quote, Profile, Research) and its long-awaited freesheet "thelondonpaper"; in the other sits Associated Newspapers and "London Lite." The...

A senior editor at The New Republic was suspended and his blog was shut down on Friday after revelations that he was involved in anonymously attacking readers who criticized his posts. Lee Siegel, creator of the Lee Siegel on Culture blog for tnr.com, was suspended indefinitely from the magazine after a reader accused him of using a “sock puppet,” or Internet alias, to attack his critics in the...

(MFWA/IFEX) - Salif Dago, a journalist with "L'Enquêteur", a bi-monthly privately-owned newspaper, who has been charged with publishing false news, made his first appearance at a regional court in Niamey on 1 September 2006. According to an MFWA-Niger source, the State Prosecutor requested a 12-month prison sentence for Dago. Dago was arrested on 28 August and held in detention at the central...

Lilongwe (AND) A journalist with the Business Day of Malawi, Maxwell Ng'ambi was this afternoon convicted for criminal libel, the first journalist to be convicted since the country gained its independence from Rhodesia in 1964. The Lilongwe first grade magistrate court allowed Ng'ambi to pay an option of a $100 for criminal libel. The journalist has since paid the fine as admission of guilt...

MOSCOW -- Two years ago the new school term began in horror for the town of Beslan in North Ossetia. Chechen terrorists seized School Number One, and in the tragic events that followed, more than 330 civilians were killed, including 186 children. Today the organized relatives of Beslan victims claim that the officials have done nothing to establish the real picture of the tragedy. "It is obvious...

An unidentified group of gunmen kidnapped Nadarajah Kuruparan, a senior Tamil radio journalist in Sri Lanka, last Tuesday and held him captive for nearly 24 hours. While it remains unclear exactly who carried out the abduction, there is every reason to believe that the military, or Tamil paramilitary groups aligned with the military, was responsible. The Colombo government and the military have...