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Move over, People magazine. The Wall Street Journal is invading your turf. Yes, the business newspaper in the gray flannel suit is emphasizing its human side. Starting today, The Journal is expanding its coverage of people and running a comprehensive index of all the people who are mentioned significantly in that day's newspaper. You probably won't see an article about how Jen is coping with the...

BASRA, Iraq – A roadside bomb targeted a joint Danish-Iraqi military patrol near the southern city of Basra on Monday _ the first attack on Danish troops since protests against a Danish newspaper for publishing widely criticized caricatures of Islam's prophet. There were no casualties in the attack, which occurred as the troops crossed a bridge in a rural area about 60 miles north of Basra, Iraq's...

ABC News anchor Bob Woodruff was with David Bloom outside Iraq days before the NBC correspondent died of a pulmonary embolism, and he immediately raced home to help Bloom's family with the funeral arrangements -- and to comfort his own wife, Lee, and their four children. The reason, Woodruff explained to New York's Daily News soon after his friend's death in 2003, is that "they equate my life and...

GAZA CITY, Gaza Strip Jan 30, 2006 – Masked gunmen on Monday briefly took over a European Union office to protest a Danish newspaper's publication of cartoons deemed insulting to Islam's Prophet Muhammad, the latest in a wave of violent denunciations of the caricatures across the Islamic world. The gunmen demanded an apology from Denmark and Norway, and said citizens of the two countries would be...

Hiring bodyguards is standard fare for anyone in a high-profile position in Russia, but when American journalist Paul Klebnikov arrived in Moscow in 2004 to become editor of the Russian-language edition of Forbes magazine, he decided against it. Klebnikov, 41, believed Russia had changed, that the free-for-all days of the 1990s were over. He told friends and family that having a bodyguard seemed...

AMMAN, 29 January (IRIN) - Human right activists have called on the government to drop charges filed against the editor of an opposition party website for posting articles written by parliamentarians more than a year ago. "We want freedom of press as high as the sky, as King Abdullah said recently," said Nidal Mansour, director of the Centre for Defending the Freedom of Journalists (CDFJ). "But...

LUGANO, Switzerland: When riots erupted in the outskirts of many French cities last autumn, media around the world struggled to find a way to tell the story of those suburban areas, known as the banlieues. A Swiss magazine took the opportunity to try a new approach to online journalism, in an effort to report the issue in a deeper and perhaps more helpful way. What is emerging from the experiment...

International press freedom and human rights organisations have come down heavily on Internet behemoth Google for launching a censored version of its search engine in China whose Internet users will only be able to look up material approved of by the government and nothing about Tibet or democracy and human rights in China. FILTERED OUT: Chinese youths use computers at an Internet cafe in Beijing...

China, the leading jailer of journalists around the world in 2005, has lived up to its ill-reputation by continuing to imprison journalists this year. The Gulou district court in southern China's Fuzhou city convicted Li Changqing on January 24 of "spreading false and alarmist information," defence lawyer Mo Shaoping told the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ). The charge was linked to an...

When the New York Times announced last year it would start charging non-subscribers to the print edition to read its best columnists online most people thought the plan would fall flat on its face. Well, it hasn’t! When the Wall Street Journal a few years back made its web presence via subscription, everyone thought that was a born loser. It wasn’t and last year wsj.com increased its online...