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When Islam is covered in the German media, discussion frequently mixes political, social and religious issues. Debate on Islamic topics can only gain in sophistication when more Muslims are involved in producing content. German journalism has developed more sensibility and increased the knowledge about Islam and Muslim culture, some experts say. In late October, the evening broadcast on Channel 3...

US President George W. Bush yet once again blamed Arab media for his country’s image problem. "I recognize we got an image issue, particularly when you have television stations, Arabic television stations that are constantly just pounding America - saying America is fighting Islam, Americans can't stand Muslims, this is a war against a religion," Bush commented following a speech in Philadelphia...

The day after Hurricane Katrina wrecked the Gulf Coast, Tony Ridder headed for Mississippi, where one of his newspapers was confronting the biggest story in its history without power, telephones or running water. The chairman and chief executive of San Jose-based Knight Ridder Inc. reached the scene before most of the staff of the Biloxi Sun Herald had made it back to the newsroom. He brought in...

CHICAGO This is the story of how one newspaper fought layoffs or buyouts, one half-day at a time. In 2000, the Daily Herald in Chicago's northwestern and western suburbs was on top of the world. Illinois' third-largest daily was also its fastest growing. E&P had named it to its inaugural list of "10 That Do it Right." Revenues were the highest in its history, making Paddock Publishing Co. a $101...

Reporters sans Frontières (RSF) has called on Mexican federal authorities to take charge of investigating attempts to intimidate crime reporter Claudia Padilla Pacheco of the local daily Correo in Celaya (in the central state of Guanajuato) after she wrote two investigative reports about the alleged implication of local police in criminal activity. AT THE CORREO: Correo's Caludia Padilla exposed a...

It was a year of goodbyes -- some noble, some less so -- as journalism's old guard departed from the spotlight. And it was a year when some of media's biggest institutions started thinking, in earnest, about reinvention. Dan Rather took his colorful metaphors and erratic temperament from CBS in March, his reputation marred by a flawed report about President Bush and the National Guard. Peter...

An Afghan magazine editor jailed for publishing anti-Islamic articles was freed on December 24. Ali Mohaqiq Nasab, editor of monthly Haqooq-e-Zan (Women's Rights), was arrested in October and sentenced to jail after complaints about his articles. He had been convicted on October 22 and sentenced to two years of hard labour. SHADOWED: The sun shines over the photo of Ali Mohaqiq Nasab, the editor...

Independent News & Media's €33m (£22.5m) investment in Jagran Prakashan Ltd, the Indian newspaper publisher, is expected to be valued at three to four times the initial investment made last June when JPL raises fresh capital in 2006. Independent News acquired 26 per cent of JPL, which is the publisher of the Dainik Jagran – that translates as The Truth – India's largest Hindi language newspaper...

It was January 8, 2005--I was in Sri Lanka, shooting footage for a documentary on the Canadian DART group, sent to help the people after a 32-foot wave, traveling 500 miles an hour hit the fragile houses and people of the Ampara district. Prior to leaving, the politicians in Ottawa had spoon-fed the Canadian news outlets. So, Canadian Press reported of the DART: "the wrong people, the wrong place...

The 1960s was the "anything goes" decade; a time when LSD, hippies, rock 'n' roll and free love were youth's reactions to the assassinations of its leaders and a war in Vietnam. It was a time when a few journalists wanted to be hip and cover the cultural revolution from the inside. They believed that the standard method of reporting -- "get the facts, get both sides, and keep your opinions to...