2005-2014

Beirut, Asharq Al-Awsat - With readership figures seemingly in terminal decline and in an attempt to stem the tide, Lebanese newspapers launched a nationwide campaign on Monday, to publicize the unique news features they offer. The campaign followed month long meetings between the editors of Lebanese print publications and will feature on both billboards and television adverts. Will it succeed...

LONDON (Reuters) - Pearson Plc shook up leadership of its newspapers on Monday, appointing Chief Financial Officer Rona Fairhead to run them after its flagship Financial Times struggled for four years to return to profit. Olivier Fleurot, 54, who had been chief executive of the FT's publishing businesses, will move to the corporate parent to develop digital strategies for the group, which includes...

A Swiss journalist was forced by private security personnel to strip down to her underwear and pass through an x-ray machine at the Erez crossing between Israel and the Gaza Strip six times on Friday. The security check was carried out by private security personnel but Israel Defense Forces soldiers were securing the border terminal and therefore looking on at the time. The Foreign Press...

It would have been normal for Peter*, 9 years old, Karl*, 13, and Jane*, 23, to spend this year’s Mother’s Day without their Mama around. After all, they said their Mama was always at work, always away from them. But this year’s observance cuts deep not only because Mama will never come home. Worse, Mother’s Day may remind them of how their mothers were brutally murdered right in front of them...

Arsonists struck at the home of newspaper columnist Daphne Caruana Galizia early yesterday morning, as they set ablaze tyres piled up against a back door in an attack she described as "part of a systematic attempt at creating a reign of terror" by a fascist group. Ms Caruana Galizia was at her Bidnija home with her husband and two of their sons at the time of the attack, but no one was injured...

Can The Inquirer and Philadelphia Daily News build a future on the back of their Web site, Philly.com? That is a critical question for the investors pondering bids for the two newspapers and Web site. Will there come a day when readers, advertisers and revenue fleeing the newspapers will be captured by the Web site - in numbers sufficient to sustain the expensive business of covering news, sports...

Srinagar, May 13: Despite assurances by defence spokesman, Greater Kashmir’s Kupwara reporter was once again harassed by Army authorities for reporting from the spot the molestation of a woman and subsequent demonstrations and firing by Rashtriya Rifles soldiers of 30 RR in Aishpora, Handwara on Friday. The testimonies of the protesters reported were narrated by the people to Superintendent of...

BAGHDAD, Iraq -- Freedom to criticize the government is one of the few things flourishing in contemporary Iraq. But editorial cartoonists who are testing the limits of expression face a different threat: extremists incensed by their art. During Saddam Hussein's time, speaking out could bring imprisonment, torture and even execution. Nowadays, the danger doesn't come from the government but the...

The final edition of a newspaper that has provided sports fans with results for more than a century rolls off the presses for the last time on Saturday. The Sports Argus, is part of Birmingham Post and Mail Ltd, which is owned by Trinity Mirror. The Saturday pink paper's demise is being blamed on falling circulation. The Birmingham Mail will now publish the paper as part of its main paper on...

On the first anniversary of the killings in the eastern Uzbek city of Andijan, the Uzbek broadcast media chose not to devote a great deal of airtime to the events. Uzbek TV's main news programme in Russian mentioned Andijan about halfway through the bulletin, with a report that focused on the reconstruction of the city, praising government efforts to boost the local economy. Uzbek radio earlier...