2005-2014

CHICAGO (AP) -- Telling stories is still the lifeblood of the newspaper business, but industry executives are worried they're not doing a good job explaining one of the biggest stories of the day: The turmoil roiling their own industry. In a remarkably bracing pep talk to his fellow publishers, Jay R. Smith, president of Cox Newspapers Inc. and outgoing chairman of the Newspaper Association of...

MEXICO CITY – Dozens of Mexican newspapers frustrated by fruitless police probes of slain and missing journalists simultaneously published the first in a series of reports on the cases Monday. Monday's article in Mexican and U.S.-based Spanish-language newspapers focused on the April 2005 disappearance of Alfredo Jimenez Mota, 26, who covered drug trafficking for El Imparcial, the daily newspaper...

BEIJING (Reuters) - Chinese journalist Yang Xiaoqing had told his wife he knew how to handle the risks of his job, but that was before he was arrested after reporting claims of corruption, joining the country's list of detained reporters. Yang was arrested in January after five months' hiding from police, charged with extortion after reporting claims of dishonest state property sales in his home...

CHINA'S digest Reader has seen circulation surpass 10 million in April and the twice-monthly periodical remains the country's most widely read magazine. "We are optimistic of expanding circulation as Reader still has great potential in a vast number of small cities and schools across the country as well as in the overseas market," said Peng Changcheng, the magazine's editor-in-chief. First...

LONDON: Business travelers in Europe may spot a new magazine this week at airport newsstands, alongside august titles like The Economist and The Harvard Business Review. World Business, an unusual partnership between Haymarket Publishing, a London-based magazine house, and the international business school Insead, made its debut in Britain last week and is moving into Europe and other markets this...

Three colleagues in a software company discover a common bond with Bengali little magazines. What do they do? Build a website to preserve Bengali little magazines, of course. Srishtisandhan ( www.srishtisandhan.com) started as a small project by software professionals Gopal Krishna Ghosh, Bhaskar Mukherjee and Purbasa Dutta, in 2003. "Each of us was related to the world of little magazines in some...

Getting married and wondering how you would look in a mermaid-style sheath? Brides.com, a new Web site, takes you to a virtual fitting room, lets you pick from one of four body types and examine how each would look in six different styles of gowns. Brides.com, an upgraded bridal site combining content from three different magazines, comes from Condé Nast, which, like many magazine publishers, is...

Saudi Arabia’s youth newspaper Shams has started publishing again, three weeks after being suspend by authorities for printing the controversial cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed. The paper’s editor-in-chief, Battal Koss, was fired as a result of the row and has been replaced by Khalaf Harby. The paper landed itself in hot water in the Kingdom after reprinting the Danish cartoons next to an article...

New Delhi, March 31: ALL the five people accused of killing Outlook cartoonist Irfan Hussein to steal his car seven years ago were acquitted by a trial court here today. Additional Sessions Judge Talwant Singh acquitted the accused saying the prosecution had "not been able to link the accused with the commission of crime beyond reasonable doubt". The case unravelled when key witness Banwari Lal...

Police arrested a TV reporter and a gas station attendant in Fukuoka Prefecture on Sunday on suspicion of gang-raping a high school student last November, local police said. The suspects are identified as Hiroyuki Kitamura, 29, a reporter at RKB Mainichi Broadcasting Corp., and Toshio Tashima, 39. They both have admitted to the allegations, according to the police. "If the suspicions are true...