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Local media reporting on science is too nationalistic and does not focus enough on a discovery's importance and impact on society, a report released Thursday revealed. The report, carried out by the Korean Press Foundation, found that 75.4 percent of news stories on scientific achievements on major television networks were about discoveries by Koreans. The results were based on an analysis of 69...

If a publisher takes as a basic premise that the trends of past years will continue in 2006 ? that print advertising growth will be less than 5% -- the bears say it will actually drop 1.5% and fear that is too optimistic -- and that Internet advertising will grow from 20-30%, is there any way to continue the usual 20% plus margins? The answer may rest in how well newspapers are exploiting the...

A new report has highlighted a worldwide trend of experienced senior staff being replaced by younger graduates who are often employed on a casual or freelance basis and on less pay. The report –The Changing Nature of Work: A Global Survey – polled 41 journalists' organisations in 38 countries that are affiliated to the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ), including the All-India...

GUWAHATI, JANUARY 10: The ranger of the Nambor reserved forest, K Z Zaman Jinnah, was arrested for allegedly murdering journalist Prahlad Goala of Assamese daily Asomiya Khabar in Golaghat on Friday last. Goala had reported on illegal felling of trees in the forest range. Goala, the Golaghat district correspondent of the daily, was reportedly killed by unidentified assailants who waylaid him at...

Last weekend an American special task force unit raided my house. It was precisely the kind of terrifying experience I have had described to me over and over again by Iraqis I have interviewed in the past two-and-a-half years. My wife, Zina, described it as like something out of a Hollywood action movie. It began at half past midnight on Saturday when explosives blew apart the three entrances to...

LONDON, Jan. 10 - A British civil servant and a former researcher appeared in court on Tuesday in the latest skirmish of an unfolding legal battle over claims that President Bush proposed bombing Al Jazeera's television headquarters. Mr. Bush's reported remarks were disclosed in a leaked document, the contents of which were published in a British newspaper late last year. The comments raised...

Military prosecutors in Switzerland have opened an investigation into a newspaper editor and two journalists for having published news of a secret fax which appears to confirm allegations of CIA secret prisons in Europe, Italian news agency Adnkronos International (AKI) has reported. GOING TO THE POLE: The airport in Szymany, Poland, identified by Human Rights Watch as a potential site of alleged...

MOSCOW, January 11 (RIA Novosti) - The widow of a Ukrainian investigative journalist whose murder became a focal point in the "orange revolution" that swept new authorities to power in 2004 said Wednesday she was unhappy with how the investigation into his killing was proceeding. Myroslava Gongadze, whose husband Heorhiy vanished in 2000 before his headless body was later found in a forest, told...

The Shenzhen Mobile Phone Paper, China's first registered mobile newspaper which has been jointly launched by the Shenzhen Press Group and China Mobile Shenzhen, has formally launched its beta test. With the Shenzhen Mobile Phone Paper, users can browse the news offline after they receive the files via Multimedia Messaging Service (MMS). The service is free from now on until March 31. The monthly...

The french private organisation calling itself "Reporters Without Borders" once again loses credibility by attacking China while remaining silent on abuses in western countries especially the very neighbour of France, the "United Kingdom" of Britain. In a press release today headlined "Do Internet companies need to be regulated to ensure they respect free expression?" Reporters Without Borders...