2005-2014

BUCHAREST, ROMANIA — The black-and-white photograph has frayed a bit over 13 years. It shows eight Romanian students and me smiling, glasses raised in celebration of the end of our month-long odyssey to produce the first student newspaper at the University of Bucharest's Faculty of Journalism. The year was 1992. Those students, now in their early 30s, are no longer "emerging adults," as I often...

The National Enquirer's infatuation with British journalists may have run its course. Its British editor, Paul Field, has been fired and the future could be uncertain for some of the Fleet Street reporters he hired to reinvigorate the US magazine. Mr Field, 34, was escorted from the magazine's New York offices on Tuesday, apparently having had no idea that the Enquirer's owners, American Media Inc...

An EU anti-corruption campaigner attacked Wednesday subsidies paid to some journalists covering the European Parliament, but officials defended the aid as needed to maintain the profile of EU bodies. The attack highlighted growing euroskepticism about the embattled 25-nation bloc's institutions, widely seen as cut off from ordinary Europeans. Independent MEP Hans-Peter Martin said a system which...

NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) - Time Warner Chairman and CEO Richard Parsons, who was under fire much of the last year from investor Carl Icahn, saw his total compensation decline slightly to $16 million in 2005. Parson's base salary in 2005 was $1.5 million, unchanged from the previous two years, according to the company's filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission late Tuesday. His bonus was...

Wal-Mart Stores Inc. has decided against buying more advertisements in local newspapers after a test in two states showed the expense is not justified, the world's largest retailer said Wednesday. Wal-Mart's test run in Midwestern papers had been closely watched by publishers who complained publicly last year that Wal-Mart sought free publicity from their newspapers but refused to buy ads – all...

CHICAGO: A new Scarborough Research analysis of its so-called "Integrated Newspaper Measurement" shows that newspaper Web sites are adding hundreds of thousands of online readers and attracting an audience with a significantly greater percentage of younger people than their print readers. "Scarborough continues to find that when online readers are considered, the story of newspaper readership for...

CARACAS, Venezuela – Venezuela's only English-language newspaper has expanded its circulation to Peru and is looking to begin sales in countries across Latin America, the paper's new editor said. The Daily Journal began distributing 3,500 copies a day on Monday in Lima to a select group of readers, said Julio Augusto Lopez Enriquez, a Venezuelan of Peruvian descent who is the paper's new president...

NEW YORK: By the time Washington Post reporter Griff Witte took up his three-month post in Afghanistan last November, the 27-year-old had already acquired a substantial working knowledge of the country and its history. As a researcher for former Post managing editor Steve Coll's Pulitzer Prize-winning book Ghost Wars, Witte had traveled extensively in the country in 2002. One lesson he'd quickly...

Ranchi, April 4: The body of Nalin Mishra, Editor of 'Jharkhand Today' magazine was found in an abandoned house here with hands and legs tied, police said today. He was last seen on March 28 and he did not return home at Kumhar Toli since then, police added. The death of Mishra (42) under mysterious circumstances has caused concern and shock in the media circles in Jharkhand. (Agencies)

ARCATA, California: At 1 a.m. on a recent morning in Nairobi, masked police officers broke into the offices of KTN television and The Standard, a Kenyan newspaper, both owned by the Standard Media Group. Commandos with assault rifles seized files and equipment. The printing press was shut down, newspapers were burned, employees terrorized and three reporters were jailed. While the Kenyan president...