2005-2014

Despite the news media's fascination with the so-called blogosphere, a national survey has found that only about one in eight American adults currently uses Internet blogs to get news and information. But these Web logs - personal diaries and observations posted on easy-to-update Internet Web pages in a process called "blogging" - are much more popular among certain demographic groups. A survey of...

Mushrooming Television-training academies, which churn out TV journalists with shaky credentials, are rather like the kerb-side 'speedily speaking English teaching' schools whose alumni speak Inzamam-ul-Haq's English. That is why one hears of young enthusiastic journalists that BBC's Paul Donahar spoke about some years ago. Donahar described a young journalist chasing the former Home Minister...

New York, August 30, 2006—The Committee to Protect Journalists welcomes the release today of Sri Lankan radio producer Nadaraja Guruparan, who was abducted by gunmen in the capital, Colombo, early Tuesday. Guruparan said he was held for about 20 hours by kidnappers who had forced him out of his car as he drove to work at the privately owned Tamil-language radio station Sooriyan, or Sun FM...

NEW YORK -- The New York Times' Web site is blocking British readers from a news article detailing the investigation into the recent airline terror plot, turning its Internet ad-targeting technology into a means of complying with U.K. laws. "We had clear legal advice that publication in the U.K. might run afoul of their law," Times spokeswoman Diane McNulty said Tuesday. "It's a country that doesn...

TEHRAN -- An Iranian reformist journalist, Issa Saharkhiz, has been handed a four-year jail term for "publishing lies and libel," the student news agency ISNA reported Monday. "The court has sentenced Saharkhiz to four years in prison and a five year ban from press activities," a judiciary official, Hossein Hosseinian, was quoted as saying. "The licenses of his monthly, Aftab (sunshine), and his...

New York, August 29, 2006—The Committee to Protect Journalists is deeply concerned by reports that veteran Sri Lankan journalist Nadarajah Guruparan is missing and feared abducted in Colombo today. The Free Media Movement, a local press group, reported that Guruparan, a producer, left for work at the privately owned Tamil-language radio station Sooriyan, or Sun FM, around 4 a.m. Guruparan’s family...

NEW YORK - This fall, teens who want the 411 on skinny jeans will have fewer teen monthly fashion bibles to flip through. But the moves by Elle Girl and Teen People to pull the plug on their publications and focus on their Web sites don't seem to bother 14-year-old Devon Brodsky. "There are so many other ways to read about fashion," said the Harrison, N.Y. resident. Aside from Teen Vogue, Brodsky...

The difficulties of hiring people who know how to create, sell and measure internet advertising are limiting the pace at which marketers can shift money from traditional media to hot web properties such as MySpace, YouTube and other video sites. According to advertising and media industry executives, one of the biggest obstacles towards even more rapid growth in the online advertising industry –...

The Japanese version of South Korean Internet news service OhmyNews was launched Monday, featuring articles from "citizen reporters" on topics ranging from politics to entertainment. "If our network grows to feature tens of thousands of citizen reporters, it could help shed light on various problems and issues that need to be addressed in Japan," said Shuntaro Torigoe, editor in chief of the...

Korean Internet companies picked the boom of online advertising and increasing overseas sales of Korean-made online services as the two biggest issues of 2005. In a year-end report, the Korea Internet Corporations Association said that the Internet is encroaching on traditional newspaper, magazine and radio-television advertising coverage, accounting for almost 10 percent of the market. Online...