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BRUSSELS, Jan. 31 (UPI) -- The European Commission is poised to propose creating an EU press agency to boost communication channels to and from citizens, a report said Tuesday. The plan, which Web site EUobserver said would be announced Wednesday, also would establish a code of conduct for European Union institutions and journalists. The idea was sparked by Dutch and French citizen rejection of...

COPENHAGEN, Denmark -- A Danish Muslim group Tuesday accepted an apology from a newspaper that published offensive cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad but said later that it had decided the statement was ambiguous. The group did not elaborate and it was unclear if there would be any effect on protests and boycotts of Danish goods in Muslim countries. The offices of the newspaper Jyllands-Posten were...

With the dread of potential research papers hanging over the heads of many students this early in a semester, many could face a potential problem with an online source that is readily accessible, easy to understand and could contain personal editorials over the prospective subject to be researched. After developing the concept or tentative subject for collecting research, the first thing most...

BRUSSELS (Reuters) - The European Commission is to scrap a bid to define common rules on which national legislation should apply in cross-border media defamation cases, the EU's top justice official said on Tuesday. European Justice Commissioner Franco Frattini told EU lawmakers that he would ask the EU executive to drop the plan on Wednesday because of differences among the bloc's 25 member...

NEW YORK Although newspapers are read only a few times a day and for brief periods each time, compared to other media, that time is relatively uninterrupted by other activities, a recent study by Ball State University's Middletown Media Studies reported today. Sixty-eight percent of the time test subjects spent with newspapers was without competition from other activities, compared to 53.8% for...

The editor of the Moroccan weekly newspaper Akhbar Al Ousboue , Adil Tadili, was liberated Saturday after having spent 22 months in jail for many press offences, reported MAP news agency. On April 15, 2004, Tadili was incarcerated in Rabat after being summoned to Rabat police headquarters for a legal matter dating back to 1994. Tadili was sentenced to pay a fine of MAD 3 million for evading...

In an appearance on CNN's Larry King Live Monday night, the network's chief international correspondent Christiane Amanpour passionately explained the difficulties TV journalists have in covering the conflict in Iraq. The hour-long interview show was dedicated on Monday night to the plight of journalists who have met harm in the country, most recently ABC's Bob Woodruff and Doug Vogt, as well as...

BAGHDAD, Iraq - The American journalist Jill Carroll, weeping and veiled, appeared on a new videotape aired yesterday by Al-Jazeera, and the Arab television station said she appealed for the release of all Iraqi women prisoners. The video was dated Saturday - two days after the American military released five Iraqi women. Ms. Carroll, 28, was crying and wore a conservative Islamic veil as she...

A reporter for the weekly Dover Post newspaper was fired Monday for offensive comments made on his personal weblog. Matt Donegan, a copy editor and reporter for the newspaper, was fired by Dover Post Editor Don Flood after a reader reported the blog entries to Sussex County radio talk-show host Dan Gaffney. A producer for Gaffney's show called Flood on Monday to inform him about the blog, and...

CAIRO – The newspaper of Egypt’s oldest opposition party has stopped publishing for the first time in more than 20 years amid a leadership dispute that has paralysed the party, officials said yesterday. Al Wafd daily did not appear on newsstands on Friday for the first time since 1984. The liberal Al Wafd party was established in 1922, banned with other parties in 1954 and made its comeback in...