2005-2014

One of several journalists sent packing by U.S. military authorities at Guantanamo Naval Base last week has come out with her story of what happened when she and others were forced to leave. Carol J. Williams of The Los Angeles Times wrote in Sunday morning’s edition of the newspaper. The reporter complained of what she called “a Pentagon power play that muzzles already reluctant sources and an...

ABQ Zawya, the leading Middle East business information company, and Dow Jones Newswires, the world’s leading provider of real-time financial news has launched the Zawya Dow Jones News Service, an English- and Arabic-language news service covering the Middle East’s financial markets. The Zawya Dow Jones News Service combines Zawya’s unrivalled information resources and the reporting expertise of...

In a major restructuring exercise, Times Internet Ltd (TIL) has promoted some of its key senior executives as well as reshuffled some responsibilities. Informed sources aver that Dinesh Wadhawan, who joined as CEO a few months ago, effected these changes to check the high attrition rate that TIL has been facing in recent times. Mohit Hira, previously VP-Marketing, has been promoted as Director...

It's fatally easy for U.S. journalists, faced with sinking circulation numbers and what seems like public indifference – if not downright hostility – to our watchdog role in a free and democratic society, to feel like divers abandoned in shark-infested open water. But to tell the truth – and good journalists are nothing if not truth-tellers – the future of our industry just blew through North...

For the fifth time this year, CNN has been confirmed as the leading international news channel by an independent industry survey, with this month’s newly released 2006 EMS (European Media & Marketing) Survey data. Additionally, CNN is the market leader in serving the audience’s changing consumption habits through both traditional and new media, leading all channels in combined television and...

Paris, Jun 18 (EFE).- Editor-in-chief Jose Joaquin Tovar of the Venezuelan weekly Ahora was gunned down on the weekend in Caracas, the Paris-based Reporters Without Borders said Sunday, adding that the killing might be linked to his journalistic stance critical of both the Hugo Chavez government and the opposition. The non-governmental organization, known as RSF for its initials in French, said in...

There is a direct correlation between terrorist attacks and media coverage, two economists have contended. Their conclusion, contained in the study entitled Blood and Ink: The Common-Interest-Game Between Terrorists and the Media, is that the relationship between terrorists and the media is symbiotic. 9/11: Bruno S Frey and Dominic Rohner have argued coverage caused more attacks, and attacks...

News stories about medical research, often based on initial findings presented at professional conferences, frequently omit basic facts about the study and fail to highlight important limitations, researchers have found. Such omissions can mislead the public and distort the actual significance of the research. HAS IT BEEN PUBLISHED: In this photo released by the University of Maastricht's Medical...

Most advertising industry leaders in the US believe that Fortune 500 companies are "generally behind the curve when it comes to online ad strategy." There is also a wariness of advertising executives regarding their own ability to keep pace with the changing digital environment. Fifty-eight per cent feel that they personally are "struggling simply to manage existing online efforts, let alone stay...

The “missing” journalist from the tribal areas, Hayatullah Khan Dawar, has been murdered. His body was found on Friday, seven months after his kidnapping from the mountains about six kilometres south of the town of Mir Ali in North Waziristan Agency. Mr Dawar is the third journalist to be assassinated in the tribal areas since the operation began there, the earlier two having been killed in Wana...