2005-2014

Two people were killed and 20 others wounded when a car bomb was detonated in the parking area of the state-owned Iraqi daily Al-Sabah in Baghdad. The explosion took place at about 9am on Sunday and destroyed nearly 20 cars owned by the newspaper's staff, agencies reported. REMAINS IN RUBLE: A man walks amid the rubble inside the destroyed office of the state-run newspaper after a bomb attack in...

Cambridge University called them a "soft" option this week. John Humphrys thinks they're pointless. In the more macho parts of journalism, real journos don't study. They roll up their sleeves and report. Yet thousands of young people sign up to media studies courses. They have helped produce former Channel 4 chief executive Michael Jackson (Westminster University); Sunday Times editor John...

BILOXI, Miss. - Mississippi's Hurricane Katrina story fell victim to the media's craving for the "sexy" story and to a national public's hunger for dramatic footage of rescues from rising levee waters rather than the destruction of a coastline, media critics and observers agree. The story of Katrina's damage in Mississippi quickly took second place to a levee breach in New Orleans that flooded the...

KINSHASA, Aug 26 (Reuters) - One TV channel endlessly repeats close-ups of dead policemen tortured by a presidential candidate's supporters; a rival radio station calls for foreigners supporting President Joseph Kabila to be expelled. Democratic Republic of Congo's media has become a political battleground. With the vast central African country two months away from a historic presidential runoff...

KHARTOUM, Aug 26 (Reuters) - An American journalist appeared in court in Darfur on Saturday on charges of espionage and entering the country illegally, his lawyers and other sources said. Paul Salopek, a writer on assignment for National Geographic magazine and also a staff reporter for the Chicago Tribune, was arrested last week for crossing into Sudan via Darfur's long and porous border with...

Taipei - A Taiwan newspaper said Friday it has barred one of its reporters from covering news events after he shouted at embattled President Chen Shui-bian to resign. The United Daily News (UDN) said it suspended and reprimanded Ting Wan-ming because he 'mixed up his political stand with his professional duty.' While Chen presented awards to business leaders Thursday, Ting held up a cardboard sign...

The Arab world tuned into the events in Lebanon in July, and Hizbullah's Al-Manar TV station was one of the main beneficiaries, according to ratings released by Ipsos-Stat. As detailed in the Mena Report, a publication of the Al Bawaba Media and Technology group, the biggest surprise in the ratings, measured between July 15 and 28, during the war in Lebanon, was the emergence of Al-Manar as the No...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Hearst Corp. on Friday said it will stop publishing its magazines SHOP Etc. and Weekend, saying that they failed to meet performance metrics the company set for them. Hearst, one of the largest U.S. magazine publishers, said that SHOP Etc. will cease after its October issue and Weekend after its September issue. The company also cited challenging economic conditions, a tough...

LONDON - The Wall Street Journal and India's HT Media have struck a deal for the US publisher to provide branded content in a new Indian business newspaper. Raju Narisetti, former deputy managing editor of The Wall Street Journal in New York and editor of The Wall Street Journal Europe, will edit the new title. HT Media is India's second-largest print media company, publishing The Hindustan Times...

A month before the war in Lebanon broke out, the Al Jazeera channel began filming documentary programs, which have not yet been broadcast, about life in Israel and, among other things, the Hebrew press. In an interview that a reporter for the channel conducted with me, she read out questions that had been dictated by the office in Amman and the editorial desk in Qatar. I told her the Israeli press...