2005-2014

After nearly 50 years of publishing on a Monday morning, Time magazine will start appearing on newsstands Friday mornings at the beginning of next year, the biggest push so far by the newsweekly to make itself more competitive in a media industry dominated by the Web and 24-hour cable news. By hitting newsstands before the weekend, rather than at the start of the workweek, Time's publisher Time...

ROME -- A media watchdog group on Friday protested searches at two Italian newspaper offices in connection with the investigation into an alleged CIA kidnapping of an Egyptian cleric in Milan in 2003. Police last week searched the Milan and Rome offices of the daily La Repubblica and the offices of the Piccolo newspaper in Trieste, in northern Italy, Paris-based Reporters Without Borders said...

BAGHDAD -- Mohammed Shakir has been selling newspapers from his stall on the right bank of the Tigris River in Baghdad for 20 years. He used to offer a selection from all of Iraq's political movements and parties - but no more. In his majority Sunni neighborhood that has proved simply too dangerous. Two months ago a group of masked men showed up at his stall and ordered Shakir to stop selling...

The BBC's head of newsgathering has defended the corporation's coverage of the recent Middle East conflict, saying it was not considered necessary to precede its broadcasts with references to the censorship rules operated by both Israel and Hizbollah. Responding to criticism claiming that the BBC's coverage of the Lebanon conflict has been both too pro-Israeli and too pro-Hizbollah, Fran Unsworth...

MUMBAI, AUGUST 17: Newspaper publisher Jagran Prakashan Ltd. said on Thursday Ireland's Independent News & Media Plc. has approached the Indian market regulator to up its stake in the Indian firm by up to 3 per cent. The application to the regulator to buy 1 to 3 per cent in the Indian firm from the open market was made by Independent News & Media Investments Ltd., a wholly owned unit of the Irish...

Nielsen/NetRatings' list of the "Top Ten Fastest Growing Web Brands" in the U.S., released last week, contains plenty of the usual suspects--that is, companies that barely existed a year ago but now draw millions of eyeballs a month. Yahoo!'s (nasdaq: YHOO - news - people ) Flickr? Check. PartyPoker? Sure. News Corp.'s (nyse: NWS - news - people ) MySpace? Of course. Then there's the Associated...

Reporters Without Borders voiced dismay today at the threats that O Dia reporter Maria Mazzei and her family have been receiving since 15 August as a result of her reports about the trafficking in human bodies in Rio de Janeiro, and her claim that employees of the Medical Forensic Institute (IML) were selling cadavers to the so-called “Máfia dos Corpos” (Body Mafia). “We are deeply disturbed by...

It was May 2001 when President Islam Karimov proclaimed the “era of the internet” in Uzbekistan. Five years on, however, the picture is grim. In the wake of the Andijan massacre, Uzbekistan is more closed off than ever and the government has taken almost total control of the country’s last source of independent information - the internet. All sites which criticise Uzbekistan have been blocked...

(CPJ/IFEX) - August 16, 2006 - The Committee to Protect Journalists condemns an attack on Igor Mosiichuk, editor-in-chief of the independent Ukrainian weekly Vecherny Vasilkov, which follows a series of articles he published on local land deals and a controversial oil tank farm. Two unidentified assailants beat Mosiichuk August 14 in a street in Vasilkov, 23 miles (37 kilometers) southwest of the...

Analysts warned last night that there could be a "bloodbath" in the London newspaper market after the announcement that another free daily would muscle in on a crowded market next month. Associated Newspapers said it would start a free afternoon paper, London Lite, in September and scrap its Standard Lite freesheet. The new title would go head-to-head with News International's forthcoming free...