2005-2014

Srinagar, June 10: Traffic policemen allegedly assaulted a senior journalist and his wife at Regal Chowk on Saturday. Local news agency CNS said the traffic cops stopped the vehicle of videographer of Associated Press (AP) Mehrajuddin and asked him to show its documents. Quoting Mehrajuddin, the CNS said the traffic policeman asked him unrelated questions and slapped him without any provocation...

With the recent deaths of two CBS employees, the Iraq war officially became the deadliest ever for journalists, with 71 killed. This is more journalists than died in World War II, Korea or Vietnam. CBS correspondent Kimberly Dozier was also badly injured in the May 29 attack that killed a cameraman and a soundman. Dozier graduated from St. Timothy's School in Baltimore County in 1984. The Sun and...

ALL sorts of mythical qualities have been attributed to the World Cup, which has introduced a curious form of seasonality to some parts of business life. At the beginning of the year it was anticipated that the World Cup would herald a strong year for advertising, and hence consumer media companies. At one point Zenith was predicting healthy improvement in the ad market, but disturbingly, the...

NEW DELHI, JUNE 9: For the first time since Supreme Court banned outdoor advertising in Delhi, the growth in the national capital's Out of Home (OOH) advertising market is outstripping that of Mumbai, thanks to thanks to a significant impetus from Delhi Metro. Delhi's Rs 260-crore OOH market is growing at 18-22% per annum as against Mumbai's Rs 450-500 crore OOH market, which is growing at 10-12%...

As billions of fans tune to television coverage of the World Cup this week, Yahoo Inc. is looking to the month-long tournament as a chance to showcase its new approach to covering big news on the Web. Yahoo, which manages the international soccer federation's Web site, is decking the site with interactive features -- blogs, chats and contests alongside three- to five-minute video highlights...

The media in Saudi Arabia has begun to broach topics such as religious extremism, women's rights and unemployment that were once strictly off limits. The changes have provided new insight into what has long been one of the most closed and conservative societies in the world. In speeches broadcast on Saudi television, King Abdullah has repeated what is now the dominant message of his reign - Saudi...

Moscow: The Editor-in-Chief of Danish Jyllands-Posten, Joernn Mikkelsen, described the newspaper's publication of cartoons on the Prophet Mohammad (PBUH) as being a "genuine journalistic exercise". Speaking at a special session (Lessons from the Mohammad cartoon clash) as part of the 59th World Newspaper Congress and the 13th World Editors Forum, Mikkelsen reiterated that the intention behind the...

NEW YORK (FORTUNE) - All Web sites are alike. Regardless of their owners, they can all do the same set of things. In that fact lies the profound crisis facing all aspects of the media industry. It doesn't matter whether a Web site's owner once focused on publishing newspapers or magazines, broadcasting television or radio, making music or producing movies, or even selling soft drinks. Any Web site...

RUSSIA'S richest man, Roman Abramovich, is reported to have bought Russian business daily Kommersant, raising fears that one of the last bastions of press freedom in the country could be muted. Mr Abramovich is believed to have close ties to the Kremlin. At Moscow's request, he agreed last year to serve a second term as governor of the remote Russian arctic region of Chukotka. Separately, former...

MOSCOW, June 9 (RIA Novosti) - Ukraine's security bodies intend to repatriate a Russian reporter for allegedly taking part in mass anti-NATO protests in the Crimea, a Russian newspaper official said Friday. Alexander Kots, a special correspondent covering developments in hot spots for the Komsomolskaya Pravda tabloid, was ordered out of the former Soviet republic after a week on the Crimean...