2005-2014

NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) - College graduates this spring are seeing the best jobs market since 2000, with many getting larger starting salaries than were being offered a year ago, according to some experts in the field. A survey by the National Association of Colleges and Employers shows employers hiring nearly 15 percent more recent college grads than a year ago, and a particularly strong market...

Los Angeles investor Ron Burkle may be willing to pay more than $2 billion for the 12 Knight Ridder Inc. newspapers now up for sale – a price that could make him a serious contender in the bidding. Burkle's Yucaipa Cos., in alliance with a union representing newspaper workers, last week submitted a tentative bid for the papers that included a range of possible prices. Two people familiar with...

The owner of the newspaper Hawke's Bay Today was fined today over an article likely to identify the victim of a sex crime. The owner, APN New Zealand, editor and reporter were charged over a front-page story on September 13 last year about a man jailed for two years and two months for historic sex offences. Today in Hastings District Court police prosecutor Tony Rielly asked that the charge of...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. media coverage of Iraq is too polarized between "good news" and "bad news" and all sides are missing out on a complete picture, participants in a panel discussion organized by Reuters said on Wednesday. That was one of the few points of agreement between journalists, a professional blogger and a U.S. military spokesman gathered in New York to discuss media in Iraq. "If...

SOFIA (Reuters) - A powerful bomb exploded in front of the apartment of a Bulgarian television reporter early on Thursday, smashing windows and walls in a seven-story building but causing no casualties, police said. The attack came as Bulgaria tries to prove it can crack down on rampant high-level corruption and organized crime to the European Union, which will decide on May 16 whether to let the...

JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA – It was three school-age siblings, orphaned by AIDS and fending for themselves in rural Swaziland, who were the last straws. They finally made Canadian reporter Stephanie Nolen question the age-old journalistic principle of not giving help to people she encounters while reporting. Every morning these kids, whom Ms. Nolen met last year, would put on their school uniforms...

Ranchi: Police are yet to find any clue to the killing of a Jharkhand magazine's editor whose body was found in a house here several days after he went missing. The decomposed body of Nalin Mishra, editor of the fortnightly Jharkhand Today, was recovered Monday night but the autopsy report did not mention any injury mark. The report suggests that Mishra was killed March 30. He went missing on...

When her public relations firm collapsed last year, Julia Hobsbawm, doyenne of spin and former business partner of Chancellor Gordon Brown's wife, set up a new venture endeavouring to bring PRs and journalists closer together. The new company, Editorial Intelligence, launched at a glittering party in November 2005 attended by some of the leading lights of London's media scene, is facing its own PR...

Nichols and McChesney have written a very readable book that describes well the current state of the U.S. media, illustrates the media’s serious recent mal-performance with enlightening case studies, and discusses what can be done about it. The authors put their analysis of the current state of the media in a historic and normative context. Media diversity has diminished hugely since the 19th and...

THE United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) has released the criteria for the WFP Award for humanitarian journalism. The award aims at recognising journalists’ efforts to deliver consistent, in-depth coverage of humanitarian issues relating to people and communities affected by poverty, food insecurity and HIV and AIDS in Swaziland. WFP Country Director Abdoulaye Balde cited HIV and AIDS as the...