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David E. Rosenbaum, a longtime editor and reporter in the Washington bureau of the New York Times, died yesterday after being beaten and robbed Friday night near his home in upper Northwest Washington. Rosenbaum, 63, died at 7:10 p.m. at Howard University Hospital, where he was treated for a head injury suffered during the attack on Gramercy Street NW, said Philip Taubman, chief of the Times's...

The son of a Georgian politician and a Ukrainian mother, Gongadze studied in Lviv before starting in journalism in Georgia. In April 2000, he co-founded the newspaper Ukrayinska Pravda ("Ukrainian Truth"), publishing it online in an effort to avoid pressure from the government and businessmen. The newspaper soon produced a range of investigative articles about Ukraine's oligarchs and commentaries...

Every New Year, newspapers around the country borrow the old David Letterman routine to produce lists of the 10 "biggest" stories. But more than revealing what was significant about the past year, these summaries offer insight about journalists' news philosophy. The San Francisco Chronicle's Steve Rubenstein and the San Jose Mercury News' Scott Herhold agreed on only one story in their top 10: a...

NEW YORK: While doubtful at first, the sale of Knight Ridder seems to be very real. The San Jose Mercury News reports that this week, Knight Ridder executives begin meeting with potential buyers, a process that will take about three weeks. A final decision by the board is at least two months away. Since the possibility of a sale is growing stronger, the real question is how much Knight Ridder can...

Ads from Internet search leader Google Inc. now appear in the Chicago Sun-Times newspaper, it was confirmed Monday, as the search giant continues to dip its toe into new advertising backwaters. Over the last few days, Google has been buying up space in the paper, and filling it with classified-style advertisements from Chicago-area businesses that also advertise on Google's Internet sites...

NEW YORK - The British Broadcasting Corp. will make about 40 video news clips available daily in the United States and Canada for Internet and cell phone subscribers through a deal with ABC News. BBC News producers will choose segments on top world and U.K. news, along with topical items such as entertainment, business and technology news. ABC did not say when it will begin offering the clips. Nor...

RABAT – The public prosecution at the Court of First Instance in Casablanca has announced the opening of an investigation against a Spanish-language Moroccan weekly newspaper for carrying an article regarded as an affront to the royal regime and territorial unity. The official Moroccan News Agency, quoting a judicial source, said that the public prosecutor at the Court of First Instance in...

Kathmandu, Jan 9 (PTI) Police in an eastern Nepal district have allegedly grilled a journalist with a leading English-language daily to reveal the source of a report he had filed and threatened him with "trouble" if he failed to do so. A Deputy Superintendent of Police yesterday pressurised 'The Kathmandu Post' reporter Benupraj Bhattarai to reveal the source of his news story, which said a group...

NBC, the television business channel, has linked the financial markets of the US, Europe and Asia in the first integrated global programme. Worldwide Exchange, broadcast simultaneously to three continents, has anchors and chief executives talking to each other in New York, London and Singapore. Until now the small delays involved in bouncing the signals up to satellites have been seen as too...

Gunmen kidnapped a female American journalist and killed her Iraqi translator Saturday in western Baghdad, according to agencies. An Interior Ministry spokesman said the translator told police before he died that the abduction took place when he and the journalist were heading to meet Adnan al-Dulaimi, head of the Sunni Arab Iraqi Accordance Front, in the Adel neighborhood of the city. The gunmen...