2005-2014

New Delhi: A CNN-IBN Special Investigation on how the Delhi Police handled Outlook cartoonist Irfan Hussain murder's seven years ago has found that the probe was shoddy, the trial court misled and crucial evidence missing. March 8, 1999: Outlook cartoonist Irfan Hussain murdered 31 March 2006: Trial court in Delhi declares the five accused not guilty The court said the prosecution had failed to...

AMMAN – The Jordanian Press Association (JPA) threatened to punish member journalists who visit Israel in violation of its decision to bar normalisation of ties with the Jewish state, newspapers reported yesterday. "The JPA council will inflict deterrent punishment on journalists who violate its decision that bans any form of normalisation," the group said. The JPA council was responding to local...

Men and women both like to read the paper when they get upset (and how sensible of you all!), but how men and women read the news -- that's another story. When angry, we are pretty much polar opposites. We differ on the kinds of news stories we choose, how we read them, and what we want to get out of them. An Ohio State University professor analysed our reading habits, starting by annoying a whole...

New York, April 6, 2006 - An early morning explosion today rocked the Sofia apartment of Vasil Ivanov, a Nova Television investigative reporter who recently uncovered abuse of inmates in Sofia Central Prison, local and international press reports said. No injuries were reported, but the bomb caused extensive damage. The 2-pound (1 kilogram) bomb was detonated around 3 a.m. outside the door to...

The deeper you dig southward, the more you get embroiled in TV channels. And, if you think it is only entertainment coated, you would be way off the tangent. News channels are increasing, Sun TV with news channels in Tamil, in Kannada, in Telugu and in Kannada rules the rooster. Udaya TV with Kannada and Telugu, India Vision news channel in Kerala, Headlines Today (of Aaj Tak fame) which though...

The News of the World yesterday abandoned its legal attempt to prevent the publication of photos of its undercover reporter Mazher Mahmood. The Respect MP George Galloway had successfully applied to overturn an injunction banning the publication of two photographs of the investigative reporter, who has come to be known as "the fake sheikh". Yesterday the tabloid newspaper decided not to appeal...

China has placed a moratorium on new foreign magazines on topics other than science and technology, dealing a blow to international media companies looking to tap the nation's booming advertising market. One casualty of the policy, adopted by China's top publishing regulator, is the Chinese edition of the rock and youth-culture magazine Rolling Stone. The magazine had published its first edition...

CONSOLIDATIONS AMONG ONLINE MEDIA COMPANIES accelerated in the first quarter, according to a new report by the Jordan, Edmiston Group, Inc. Led by NBC Universal's purchase last month of women's network iVillage for $550 million, the first quarter saw 37 online media mergers and acquisitions, which totaled $2.36 billion. In the first three months of last year, by contrast, 24 deals transpired in...

NEW YORK (FORTUNE) - The media industry, in confronting the Internet, seems to have added an additional level to the oft-cited stages of grief. To denial, anger, depression, and acceptance, now many major media companies seem to have added self-abasement. Some of the biggest companies seem to have stopped fighting the Web and instead fallen in love with it. They think it is better than they are --...

NEW YORK (AdAge.com) -- Time Inc. eliminated another 250 jobs today in its latest, largest and, perhaps, last round of cutbacks. The mid-level and junior-level workers shown the door almost all came from the business side of operations at a long list of titles. "We do believe this is the vast majority of reductions for the foreseeable future," said Ali Zelenko, a Time Inc. spokeswoman. "As Time...