2005-2014

IMPHAL, Mar 22: All Manipur Working Journalists` Union invites application from print and electronic journalist from Manipur for award of AMWJU Media Fellowship - 2006 on the theme Rural Development reporting in the state. Altogether four fellowships are to be awarded, three for print journalists and one for electronic journalist. However, the amount of the fellowships for both print and...

Prague, March 22 (CTK) - The Czech Foreign Ministry has officially protested against a brutal attack on Czech reporter Jan Rybar from the daily Mlada fronta Dnes in the centre of Belarussian capital Minsk last Sunday night, the ministry press section informed CTK today. The Czech Republic asked the Belarussian authorities to investigate the incident as soon as possible. The Czech Foreign Ministry...

Colombian radio commentator Gustavo Rojas Gabalo died Monday of injuries he suffered in a February 4 shooting outside a local supermarket in the northwestern city of Montería, Córdoba province. Rojas, known as "El Gaba," died in the Salucoop Clinic in Medellín, the local press reported. TALKING PEACE: Colombian President Alvaro Uribe gives a speech during the opening ceremony of an

NEW YORK (AdAge.com) -- Google this week launched a beta version of Google Finance, providing financial news and data from partners with long histories in reporting on business, such as Reuters. Why would Reuters, a long-established news authority, want to subsume its brand under Google’s? Easy: No Web site drives traffic like Google. With the Web site’s spare design and flash-friendly features...

NEW YORK (AP)--Nearly four in five marketers surveyed believe that television advertising is less effective than it was just two years ago, according to a study released Wednesday. That's bad news for a nervous TV industry, which is worried about what the growth in digital-video-recorder, or DVR, usage and video-on-demand will mean for the economic underpinnings of the business. The joint survey...

In recognition of an imaginative campaign for water conservation, an Indian daily newspaper today received the $20,000 biennial prize for rural communications awarded by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO). Malayala Manorama, published in Kerala, launched its Many a Drop campaign in May 2004 to disseminate a new perspective on water to the local population...

Ibéyise Pacheco, the El Nacional columnist sentenced to house arrest last Wednesday for defaming the character of Col. Angel Bellorín, was freed by Judge Belén Gamboa on Tuesday. In an interview with Globovisión immediately following her release, Pacheco framed the verdict as a victory for freedom of speech and of the press in Venezuela, saying she considered herself, "the representative of all...

BAGHDAD, Iraq – An Iraqi cameraman working for CBS News when he was wounded and detained by the U.S. military will be tried next month, CBS officials said Wednesday. Abdul Ameer Younis Hussein's trial was scheduled to begin Wednesday, but an Iraqi judge postponed the proceedings until April 5, said Larry Doyle, the CBS bureau chief in Baghdad. Charges against Hussein have not been made public...

I'd like to think the reason so many people have been asking me if I have a blog is because they love my writing so much they just can't get enough. But it's more likely just another sign of how influential the form is becoming, particularly in the environmental world. Still, it has made me wonder if it's time for me to get on the bandwagon and start blogging. "Don't do it, man, it's a time suck,"...

WASHINGTON: An inquiry has found that an American public relations firm did not violate military policy by paying Iraqi news outlets to print positive articles, military officials said. The finding elevates to the Defense Department the decision on whether new rules are needed to govern such activities. The inquiry, which has not yet been made public, was ordered by General George Casey Jr., the...