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Warangal: A journalist working as Doordarshan Mahbubnagar district contributor was found dead in suspicious circumstances near Quila Warangal on Saturday. Vijayanand (37), a native of Mahbubnagar, came to Warangal on December 28 to write the final exams of the Bachelor of Communication and Journalism, a year-long correspondence course, offered by the Distant Learning and Continuing Education of...

KUALA LUMPUR , Jan 7 (IPS) - News reports based on secret video grabs of a woman forced to do 'nude squats' in police custody, which put the Malaysian government in a spot over human rights, have backfired on press freedom as it turned out that the victim's nationality had been wrongly identified. The widely-circulated, Chinese-language daily newspaper ‘China Press' which broke the story was, on...

NTERNATIONAL media groups, stung by stagnating sales and declining profits, see India as a fast-growing market ripe with opportunity. Efforts to liberalise overseas investment rules have attracted a raft of foreign players including Pearson, publisher of the Financial Times, Independent News and Media, Turner International and, most recently, BBC Worldwide. The unit, the commercial arm of the BBC...

BEIJING, Jan. 7 (Xinhuanet) — Men still play the dominate role in China’s media industry, and most news stories disregard or reveal insensitive attitude towards gender problems, according to a survey released by China’s Women Reporter Association Saturday. Among China’s broadcasters, 69 percent are female, and among journalists, 54 percent are female. However, about 81 percent news stories are...

THE last man to speak to Paul Klebnikov, the American magazine editor, as he lay dying of gunshot wounds on a Moscow pavement has challenged claims to be made by prosecutors this week that the killing was carried out by Chechen hitmen. Alexander Gordeyev, deputy editor of the Russian language edition of Newsweek, said Klebnikov had told him the shots were fired by a man of Russian appearance – not...

Knight Ridder will begin meeting with potential buyers next week in the next step of offering itself for sale under pressure from unhappy shareholders. The presentations for potential buyers will take two or three days each and the entire process could last two to three weeks, according to people familiar with the situation. A Knight Ridder spokesman declined to comment Friday. The San Jose-based...

Tension prevailed for some time in front of a police station in the temple town of Tirupati following detention of a local journalist here for a few hours today. The journalist, Gandhi, printer and publisher of Telugu weekly 'Tirupati Vani,' was picked up from his residence in the early hours today and detained at the East Police Station for a few hours after a complaint lodged by a neurologist...

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- A senior U.S. intelligence official told CNN on Thursday that the National Security Agency did not target CNN's chief international correspondent Christiane Amanpour or any other CNN journalist for surveillance. NBC raised the question in an interview with The New York Times reporter James Risen, asking him whether he knew anything about possible surveillance of Amanpour by the...

IN A MOVE THAT APPEARS to be aimed directly at Microsoft, Google co-founder Larry Page is expected to announce the release of Google Pack, a bundle of software that includes the Firefox open-source Web browser. The software pack, first reported Thursday by The Wall Street Journal, is also expected to include open-source instant messaging product Trillian, Norton AntiVirus, and RealPlayer, as well...

BEIJING (Reuters) - Forget loners in pyjamas and slippers pouring out their hearts in anonymous solitude. China's bloggers are going offline - and they're having a blast. Among the best known is "Dai San Ge Biao", literally meaning 'wears three watches' but also a play on former leader Jiang Zemin's Three Represents, or "San Ge Dai Biao", political theory. A bespectacled journalist by day whose...