2005-2014

NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) - The media business is getting hit by massive technological change, and executives from top media companies said industry executives had better get used to it. "The challenge is pretty clear. It's the digital transition. We would like to say we look at it as an opportunity. Every single part of our business is going through extraordinary technological change," Peter...

More than two thirds of media professionals are graduates according to new research. 69% of people working in the media have a degree compared to 16% of the UK workforce[1] as a whole. 44% are media graduates and 56% have a degree in other subjects. Almost 7000 people working in the media participated in the survey by Skillset, the Sector Skills Council for the audio visual industries which...

KABUL -- As a cameraman in the Afghan parliament, Omid Yakmanish thought he had a routine job, until he was attacked and threatened with death. It began when he filmed a parliamentary brawl and an attempted attack on a female MP last month. His footage was an embarrassment to many politicians, and the reaction was swift and violent. First he was confronted and slapped by an MP who had once been a...

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - For the past decade, newspapers have seen their help-wanted advertising under siege from online rivals. Now, as the Internet begins to eat into automotive and real estate classifieds as well, newspapers are fighting back. Classified advertising accounts for more than a third of revenue at newspapers, which until recently didn't want to accept that advertisers are increasing...

The fact that RSS feeds are immune to the spam filters that sometimes plague email newsletters does not make them a better distribution medium for marketing communications, as hailed by some. According to new research from usability expert Jakob Nielsen, RSS feeds prove to be a cold medium in comparison to email newsletters, which do a far better job at building a relationship between a company...

When Togo take to the pitch for their World Cup debut, most fans will be judging their performance against South Korea. But one NGO hopes some of the focus will be on the lack of press freedom in the African nation. Despite the controversy over player bonuses and the near loss of coach Otto Pfister, the Togolese fans are over the moon about their country's first-ever appearance at a World Cup...

AMMAN, 13 Jun 2006 (IRIN) - Media in the Arab world operates in an environment that restricts freedom of opinion amid ongoing state control over major news organisations, according to a recent survey conducted by the Amman Human Rights Centre (AHRC). “Arab regimes are increasingly imposing restrictions on journalists to prevent them from exposing their practices, mostly in terms of corruption and...

MOSCOW: The internet can be an excellent tool for tracking newspaper reader tastes, as well as developing additional revenue streams, said speakers at the World Association of Newspapers (WAN) annual congress and World Editors Forum meeting, held in Moscow, Russia, last week. Classified advertising which is migrating to the web also received a lifeline. Martha Stone, WAN manager: special projects...

(CPJ/IFEX) - New York, June 12, 2006 - A court in the Gambia freed a reporter on bail today, more than two months after he was detained by the National Intelligence Agency (NIA), local sources told the Committee to Protect Journalists. Lamin Fatty of the Banjul-based The Independent will go on trial June 22 on charges of publishing "false news," they said. Under Gambian law, Fatty should have gone...

The Democratic Republic of Congo's independent media regulator has accused the president and several vice-presidents of allowing TV and radio stations under their control to incite intolerance and hatred before the July 30 elections. Modeste Mutinga, president of the High Authority of the Media, urged visiting UN Security Council representatives yesterday to use their influence and demand that...