2005-2014

In a move that seems certain to force a showdown over what constitutes indecency on the airwaves, four TV broadcast networks and their affiliates announced Friday that they had united to challenge a Federal Communications Commission ruling that deemed language used in several of their shows indecent. CBS, Fox, ABC and Hearst-Argyle Television Inc. filed notices of appeal in federal court in New...

William F. Woo, the first Asian-American to be the editor of a major daily American newspaper, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, and the first person outside the Joseph Pulitzer family to be at the editorial helm at that paper, died Wednesday at his home in Palo Alto. He was 69. The cause was colorectal cancer, said his wife, Martha Shirk. From 1962 to 1996, Woo held a variety of posts at the Post...

IS JOURNALISM dying? That’s a question increasingly being asked as entertainment supercedes news in most of our media. Across the world, fewer and fewer resources are dedicated to the gathering and processing of public information and the traditional role of journalists in providing two-way communication between the authorities and citizens. The latest annual report on the state of the news media...

PARIS, April 14 (Xinhua) -- Some 50 France Soir employees organized by trade unions demonstrated Friday outside the French Culture Ministry to ask the government to intervene over the planned job cuts. The newspaper's new owners, real estate developer Jean-Pierre Brunois and sports journalist Olivier Rey, envisioned to cut half of the 112 employees and relaunch France Soir as a popular newspaper...

The Danish cartoon crisis has extended into Yemen. Three local papers published this defamatory picture. A quick and hasty reaction closed these papers down and annulled their permission to publish. Additionally, the editors in chief were imprisoned (Yemen Observer, Al-Rai Al-Am, and Al-Hurriya). Many became preoccupied by this offense and mosques began to collect donations to defend the Prophet...

A Russian court today convicted and fined the editor of a newspaper who was charged with inciting religious strife by publishing the Prophet Muhammad cartoons two months ago. The Vologda city court found weekly Nash Region editor Anna Smirnova guilty of deliberately stirring up religious hatred and intolerance, as well as abuse of her position. She was ordered to pay 100,000 rubles (€2,978) in...

ITivo Don Imus as much as I can because his putrid racist offerings are said to represent the secret thinking of the Cognoscenti. Maybe that's why journalists like Jeff Greenfield and others admire him so much. He says what they think in private. On any day, you might find Bernard McGirk, the man, who, according to "60 Minutes," Imus hired to do "nigger jokes," doing a lame imitation of New...

Ha Noi (VNA) - A pro-development journalism network, initiated by ActionAid International, was launched in Viet Nam on April 14. The system involves volunteer journalists who wish to contribute to the national cause of poverty alleviation and improvement of living conditions well as to raise the awareness of people from all walks of life about development issues facing the country. According to an...

What difficult times American journalism has been having since 2003! That year, Jayson Blair rocked the foundations of The New York Times and a collective hallucination caused the American press to search for Weapons of Mass Destruction in Iraq. In 2005, Dan Rather resigned as anchor of the "CBS Evening News" after an offensive from conservative bloggers. They were correct in exposing a...

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Yahoo Inc.'s (YHOO.O: Quote) Chief Executive Terry Semel exercised options on 7 million shares, which after deducting the prices paid for the stock, netted him $173.6 million in 2005, the company said in a U.S. regulatory filing on Friday. Semel, the chairman and CEO of the world's largest Internet media company, also received restricted stock now worth $7.8 million and...