2005-2014

TOTAL newspaper readership in Australia has declined by just 0.8 per cent in the past 12 months despite intensifying competition from other media. News Limited, publisher of about 70 per cent of the nation's newspapers, said the decline appeared mainly due to readers shifting from printed newspapers to websites. News chairman and chief executive John Hartigan said: "Despite often quoted concerns...

(IPYS/IFEX) - On 18 July 2006, journalist José Ursílio, editor-in-chief of the "Diario de Marília" newspaper, was the intended target of an assassination attempt, by a contract killer who confused him with another newspaper employee. The attack took place at the entrance to the newspaper's headquarters, in Marília, São Paulo district. Contract killer Evandro Quina shot at Almir Adauto, a driver...

The Internet is becoming a cesspool of plagiarism. Steve McKee, a partner at Albuquerque advertising agency McKee Wallwork Cleveland, found that out in June after he wrote his monthly column for BusinessWeek.com. The column, entitled "Five Words Never to Use in an Ad," was one of his more popular pieces. A search revealed that 36 blogs had picked it up and posted it to their sites, something that...

On March 1st, Wikipedia, the online interactive encyclopedia, hit the million-articles mark, with an entry on Jordanhill, a railway station in suburban Glasgow. Its author, Ewan MacDonald, posted a single sentence about the station at 11 P.M., local time; over the next twenty-four hours, the entry was edited more than four hundred times, by dozens of people. (Jordanhill happens to be the “1029th...

New York, July 31, 2006—The Committee to Protect Journalists is deeply concerned by threats to distributors of two Tamil-language dailies, Sudar Oli and Thinakkural, in Batticaloa and Amparai districts of eastern Sri Lanka. Both newspapers stopped distributing in the area last week after they received threatening phone calls, their managing editors told CPJ. On July 24, a caller identifying...

New York, July 31, 2006—The Committee to Protect Journalists welcomes the provisional release of journalist Jean-Léonard Rugambage, who had been jailed for nearly 11 months by a traditional court trying suspects in the 1994 genocide. Rugambage was freed on Friday on the orders of the national committee overseeing traditional or “gacaca” courts following an investigation into procedural abuses in...

NEW YORK, July 31 (Reuters) - Time Warner Inc.'s (TWX.N: Quote, Profile, Research) CNN plans to standardize how it solicits and handles user-contributed news amid an industry-wide move to let consumers play a more prominent role in the news gathering process. The cable news network on Tuesday plans to announce it has created a new program to let users send in digital audio and video from breaking...

Mainstream media may be able to breathe a sigh of relief, at least for now: A study finds that although the Internet has grown significantly in the past decade, it is supplementing traditional outlets such as newspapers and television, not replacing them. The biennial news consumption survey of 3,204 adults, out today from the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press, finds that although a...

FAR more Americans use the internet to get their news than a decade ago but the rate of online news audience growth is slowing, according to a new study. Nearly one in three Americans regularly used the internet to get their news in 2006, compared to one in 50 in 1996, according to the Pew Research Centre for People and the Press. The most recent result was about the same as it was two years ago...

NEW YORK, July 31 (Reuters) - Fox News has agreed to settle a sexual harassment lawsuit brought by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, or EEOC, on behalf of former female employees who said a vice president routinely cursed and denigrated women in the workplace. The settlement, submitted for approval in Manhattan federal court on Monday, includes a total payout of $225,000 to four women...