2005-2014

A charge that ex-Economic Development Minister Farhad Aliyev ordered the killing of journalist Elmar Huseynov has unleashed fresh controversy about the government’s 17-month-long murder investigation. Friends and relatives of the slain editor suspect that the accusation is designed to strengthen the government’s case against Aliyev, who was imprisoned last year for allegedly plotting a coup. The...

Reuters has fired Lebanese freelance photographer Adnan Hajj after he transmitted at least two photographs from Lebanon that were doctored to make Israeli attacks seem more dramatic. The news agency said Monday it is investigating Hajj's other work and has withdrawn all of Hajj's photos, about 920 images, from its archives as a precaution. Hajj's career with Reuters unraveled Saturday after...

Some of the nation's largest companies were counted last year by the government as small businesses for contracting purposes, inflating the Bush administration's record of help to small companies. Media companies cited as small businesses included The New York Times Co., USA Today International Corp., Bloomberg LP and the Public Broadcasting Service, according to data the administration gave...

NEW YORK: A new report from the Bivings Group finds that newspaper publishers are aggressively focusing their efforts on the Internet, rather than trying to compete with it. The study, which focused on 100 American newspapers, found that newspaper publishers were largely forward-thinking in their approach to the Web, and have been taking advantage of online features like podcasts, blogs, and RSS...

There is in Venezuela, as people of all shades of opinion broadly agree, freedom of expression. You have only to open an opposition newspaper, or turn on the TV, to realise that criticising the government is not merely permitted but exercised in full. That, however, is where the consensus ends. From the government's perspective, the opposition media are abusing this freedom to spread lies in a bid...

LONDON: Global media baron Rupert Murdoch is to launch a free London evening newspaper, to be called thelondonpaper, on September 18, his News International publishing group announced on Monday. The paper will break the monopoly on London evening titles held since 1980 by the Evening Standard, published by Associated Newspapers, the British press group that also owns the mass-circulation Daily...

Readers of some of the most prominent US newspapers will soon be greeted with an unusual sight over their morning coffee: advertisements on the front page and on the front of other sections. In an industry where entrenched journalistic values and mounting commercial pressure have increasingly been on a collision course, the arrival of advertising on such hallowed editorial ground signals a...

According to recent statistics from blog-tracking site Technorati, the blogosphere has doubled every six months for the last three years. That's 175,000 new blogs per day worldwide. Technorati added its 50 millionth blog on July 31, 2006. The site's State of the Blogosphere report is released every three months by Technorati CEO Dave Sifry. Sifry has been tracking the blogosphere since 2002, and...

LONDON, Aug. 6 — When Metro International, a publisher of free newspapers, moved into France in 2002, established competitors cried foul, and some of their workers took to the streets. Four years later, Metro and other free papers are fixtures of the French cityscape, accounting for one in five papers read in France, and publishers of paid-for dailies are considering free editions of their own...

LONDON: When Metro International, a publisher of free newspapers, moved into France in 2002, established competitors cried foul, and some of their workers took to the streets. Four years later, Metro and other freesheets are fixtures of the French cityscape, accounting for one in five papers read in France, and publishers of paid-for dailies are considering free editions of their own. The about...