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Newspapers in Iran are both angry and cynical about the plane crash in Tehran on Tuesday in which over 100 people died. Commentators are scathing about the lack of adequate safety checks said to be a widespread issue in Iran. The fact that many journalists were among the dead adds piquancy to their comments. The moderate Mardom-Salari is convinced that nobody will be called to account for the...

"In the United States, for example, increasingly, the practitioners of mainstream journalism are holders of post-graduate degrees, often with relevant first degrees in such disciplines as Political Science, Sociology, Anthropology, Science and Technology, Law and International Relations as well as Linguistics and Religions. In recent weeks, intense public debate in the global Ghanaian, and African...

NEW YORK, Dec 7 (Reuters) - Political lobbying group MoveOn, best known for efforts to unseat U.S. President George W. Bush in the 2004 election, protested job cuts in American newsrooms on Wednesday, saying it would stifle good journalism. At a media conference in New York, the group delivered a petition with 45,000 signatures to executives of newspaper publisher Tribune Co.(TRB.N: Quote, Profile...

When is making 20 to 30 percent profit not enough? When the stock price of the company making it is too low to satisfy the firm's major shareholders. Profit, which used to be the measure of business success, has taken a back seat to share price, even if it means the destruction of the company. That is what happened to America's second-largest newspaper chain, Knight Ridder. Private Capital...

BusinessWeek has announced that it will reposition its approach to global markets – it starts with the discontinuation of its European and Asian editions. A greater emphasis will be placed on providing online news, analysis and information and on developing local language publications while maintaining a single flagship print product, a press release issued by the ccompany said on Wednesday...

The Pulitzer Prize Board announced Wednesday that newspapers may submit online material as well as print content in all 14 of its journalism categories, starting with the 2006 competition. PULITZER ONLINE: "The board believes it has taken a significant step in recognition of the widening role of online journalism at newspapers," said Sig Gissler, administrator of the Pulitzer Prizes. "The board...

NEW YORK (AP) - Dow Jones & Co., publisher of the Wall Street Journal, said advertising linage at its flagship publication jumped 8.7 percent in November, as gains in classified and general ads boosted results. The Wall Street Journal, the nation's second-largest newspaper, posted a 34.3 percent gain in classified advertising, driven by an increase in real estate and other classified ads. Linage...

NEW YORK: Carl Icahn's assault on Time Warner has produced its first casualty - however unintended it may have been. Robert Clark, who had been a director of both Time Warner and Lazard, the investment bank advising Icahn, said Tuesday that being on both sides was untenable and resigned from Lazard. Ever since Lazard announced last week that it had signed on to advise Icahn, Clark's role on both...

LOS ANGELES -- Time Warner Inc. is in discussions about finding a partner to boost advertising revenue at its America Online unit _ but AOL is not for sale, Chief Executive Dick Parsons said Tuesday. "We are not interested in selling AOL," Parsons said at a press briefing before a speech in Los Angeles. Time Warner is negotiating with different parties about a deal that could help AOL's transition...

The Los Angeles Times will close its San Fernando Valley plant and consolidate production at other facilities, eliminating 110 jobs, the newspaper said. The cuts will be made from "across the newspaper's production facilities," the Times said in a statement Monday. Most will be through a voluntary separation program, the newspaper said. The Times is owned by Tribune Co., the Chicago-based media...