2005-2014

BILOXI, Miss., April 8 – Glenn Currie, an architect, slid 50 cents into a coin box here the other morning and pulled out a copy of The Sun Herald, the local daily published in nearby Gulfport. "I read it every day," he said. "They report what we need to know." Mr. Currie, 59, said he especially appreciated the paper's before-and-after series, which features a building before Hurricane Katrina...

AOL chairman and CEO Jonathan Miller was around for the first internet crash. So, like most senior executives anticipating a second online boom, he is cautious. But confidently so. The internet giant has faced problems during the past few years - moving uncomfortably from a dial-up economy to a broadband one -but Miller believes it is now sitting pretty. After being shut out of the broadband...

Shortly after midnight on March 27, a group of armed paramilitary officers pick up Musa Saidykhan, editor-in-chief of the private biweekly newspaper, the Independent, from his home in Banjul, Gambia. Around 8 a.m., staff and visitors to the paper's offices are detained by paramilitaries as they walk into the premises. A few hours later, the detained visitors and staff, with the exception of...

SANA’A, April 9 – Journalist Abdulfatah Al-Hakimi remains in intensive care in an Aden hospital, his health deteriorating after his car was sprayed with an unknown gas. He became asphyxiated when he got into the vehicle and inhaled the gas, which affected his respiratory system. Thereafter, he suffered severe exhaustion and a drop in blood sugar. He was rushed to intensive care at an Aden hospital...

Journalists' leaders in India are being urged to lead a new campaign to reinforce rights of women journalists in one of Asia's dramatically expanding media markets. A five-day union debate on gender equality and women's rights concluded with a call to make women's rights and improved portrayal of women priorities over the coming year. Unions are being invited to set up special gender councils to...

With anti-monarchy protests in Nepal being increasingly tackled with a heavy hand by the King Gyanendra regime, those covering the protest rallies across the country are also finding themselves at the receiving end. Seven journalists were injured on Saturday alone when they were beaten up by the police. All were covering the protest rallies. The Federation of Nepalese Journalists (FNJ) has...

Just when it seemed the print media was booming once again, the Indian Readership Survey 2006 Round 1 has pricked the bubble. There are few newspapers or magazines that have seen any growth ? most have seen an erosion in readership. Dainik Jagran retains its No 1 position among newspapers with 19.07 million readers, Dainik Bhaskar follows second with 14.57 million, and Daily Thanthi is third with...

JOURNALISTS over the years have assumed they were writing their headlines and articles for two audiences – fickle readers and nitpicking editors. Today, there is a third important arbiter of their work: the software programs that scour the Web, analyzing and ranking online news articles on behalf of Internet search engines like Google, Yahoo and MSN. The search-engine "bots" that crawl the Web are...

MINSK, Belarus (UPI) -- A Canadian reporter arrested while covering a demonstration in Belarus has been released after two weeks in jail. Frederick Lavoie was on his way to Kiev in Ukraine on Saturday and was expected to fly to Montreal Monday, the Canadian Broadcasting Corp. reported. He was being escorted by the Canadian consul general from Poland. Lavoie was one of 13 reporters arrested in...

The family of murdered Outlook cartoonist Irfan Hussain will challenge the acquittal of all five accused in the Delhi High Court. Hussain was abducted and later murdered by a gang of auto-snatchers on National Highway 24 in east Delhi on March 8, 1999. Hussain's father Mansoor Bhai has given his consent to challenge the acquittals and seek a re-investigation into the 1999 murder, Outlook editor...