2005-2014

The union working with Los Angeles billionaire Ron Burkle to buy 12 newspapers from McClatchy Co. is asking elected officials to lobby the Sacramento company on behalf of labor's effort to acquire the publications. Burkle's Yucaipa Cos., working with the Newspaper Guild-Communications Workers of America, submitted a bid Tuesday on the papers McClatchy is selling as part of its acquisition of...

Business opportunity: Owners sought for profitable hometown newspapers in 11 American cities. Owners will instantly become prominent citizens. Political and economic influence will follow. Great chance to leave a mark on the world. Gary Pruitt, chief executive of the McClatchy newspapers, hasn't placed this ad anywhere yet, but he could. Pruitt's company recently bought 32 newspapers in the Knight...

PORT-AU-PRINCE - An international journalism organization urged President-elect René Préval to reopen a stalled investigation into the slaying of Haiti's most prominent journalist, saying Friday that efforts to solve the case have been a ``scandal.'' Jean Dominique, a radio journalist who was increasingly critical of ousted President Jean-Bertrand Aristide's government, was gunned down with an...

MOSCOW – An American journalist said Saturday that interrogators alleging she has information about attacks in southern Russia have confiscated her notebooks, tapes and computer hard drives, threatened her and subjected her to long rounds of questioning. Kelly McEvers, a 35-year-old, New York-based freelance journalist, arrived in the southern region of Dagestan two weeks ago to research the...

MANILA: The Philippine press, one of the most vigorous and free-wheeling in Asia, is coming under serious government pressure for the first time since the martial law government of Ferdinand Marcos more than 20 years ago. Along with hints that the authorities might restrict public assembly, the campaign against the press strikes at the heart of the freedoms that were won in 1986 when Marcos was...

Some of us in the news media have been hounding President Bush for his shameful passivity in the face of genocide in Darfur. More than two years have passed since the beginning of what Mr. Bush acknowledges is the first genocide of the 21st century, yet he barely manages to get the word "Darfur" out of his mouth. Still, it seems hypocritical of me to rage about Mr. Bush's negligence, when my own...

Borders Inc. raised book-business eyebrows Friday when the company confirmed it wouldn't stock a tiny magazine's current edition featuring the satirical cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad that have enraged parts of the Muslim world. But readers in Portland eager to sift through the April-May issue of Free Inquiry shouldn't have much trouble finding other outlets for the magazine -- unless they sell...

Criminals on Boring Canal Road in Patna, on Thursday afternoon, attacked and seriously injured India Today's Patna-based chief correspondent Sanjay Kumar Jha. He was rushed to a private nursing home with severe back injury, the police said. The incident took place near Lalita Hotel and Sachdeva Coaching Institute on Boring Canal Road at around 3:00 pm. Interestingly, the manager of the Sachdeva...

NEW YORK: With the news of reporter Jill Carroll’s release "it seems there’s a new round of discussion about media practices in Baghdad, where I have been based since the start of the war in 2003," writes Cox correspondent Larry Kaplow in a letter posted Friday at the Romenesko site at www.poynter.org. "Many newspaper reporters, including myself, reject the 'hotel journalism' characterization...

Reporters Without Borders described as "very thin", evidence of "extortion" produced against two journalists on which a Tbilissi court on 29 March sentenced Chalva Ramishvili, co-founder of independent TV station 202 and managing editor David Kokhreidze, to respectively four and three years in prison. The authorities accused them of having blackmailed a deputy in the ruling party, Koba Bekaouri...