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Aljazeera has hired a British law firm to press its request to British Prime Minister Tony Blair for a partial transcript of a conversation between him and US President George Bush, in which the American leader allegedly said the Arab broadcaster's headquarters should be bombed. Yosri Fouda, an investigative reporter and acting Aljazeera bureau chief in London, said the network had hired Finers...

HONG KONG--The Sun, a morning daily, suddenly slashed its newsstand copy price in half, to HK$3 (45 yen) in October. The company said the move was "to commemorate the paper's seventh anniversary." But that anniversary doesn't actually arrive until March this year. Why the price cut? Industry pundits say free tabloid newspapers that started appearing on the streets in recent years are to blame as...

A deal between New Delhi Television (NDTV) and Business Standard (BS) is expected for the infusion of programming content in the both has been turn on, according to sources. For mutuality, BS will struck a content sharing deal with the news broadcasting company promoted by Prannoy Roy, for a cooperative and mutually beneficial relationship between the two groups. NDTV's efforts to provide viewers...

BUENOS AIRES - When a provincial newspaper reported on a corruption scandal, the state government cut off its advertising. And when a well-known journalist's national TV show was canceled, he blamed the decision on economic pressures from Argentina's federal government. Free press and civic activists here are expressing growing concern about subtle government censorship, especially as President...

NEW YORK (FORTUNE) - A couple weeks ago, my wife and I caught a lengthy but entertaining promo for the Winter Olympics on NBC. It consisted of ice skaters skating, plus a song that combined hip-hop and arena rock by a group we didn't know. A little searching on the Web revealed that the group was Flipsyde, that Washington Post critic Geoffrey Himes considered its "largely ignored" We the People to...

South Africans are proud of our democratic Constitution and its media freedom provisions. And so we should be, given our exemplary rights to free speech and our diverse media, and their contrast to neighbouring countries Zimbabwe and Swaziland. It's not that we're just "lucky" to lead the continent in this respect: our relative paradise was hard fought for. But before we get too complacent, it's...

Mumbai: Independent News & Media Plc, publishers of The Independent newspaper and who now have a 26 per cent equity stake in Jagran Prakashan Ltd (JPL), would like to introduce an Indian language daily in South Africa. According to Gavin K O'Reilly, Chief Operating Officer, the Irish media major drew its strength from servicing diverse geographies, a truism therein being that growth would require...

TORONTO (Reuters) - Internet users can give Web sites a thumbs up or thumbs down in less than the blink of an eye, according to a study by Canadian researchers. In just a brief one-twentieth of a second -- less than half the time it takes to blink -- people make aesthetic judgments that influence the rest of their experience with an Internet site. The study was published in the latest issue of the...

NEW YORK, Jan 17 (Reuters) - The chief executive of U.S. mining company Freeport-McMoRan Copper & Gold accused The New York Times on Tuesday of "disturbing and provocative misstatements" for criticizing the company's financial support of the military in Indonesia, where it operates a huge mine. Richard Adkerson also acknowledged that as a result of the newspaper report, the company has received...

The Israeli media failed the test of covering the disengagement - according to a new report released Tuesday by Keshev, The Center for the Protection of Democracy in Israel. An extreme portrayal of settlers, and a marginalization of the Palestinians and of the political and historical implication of the process, are the two issues sited in the report as the media's most glaring failures. "The...