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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Internet advertisers and marketing professionals have a message for television networks: get ready to change the way you work. As Internet advertising grabs a bigger share of marketing budgets and ad agencies tailor spots to a new medium where attention spans can be measured in split seconds, television networks will have to adjust, executives told the Reuters Media and...

Promised cuts came Thursday to the Chicago Tribune, with a net loss of 28 editorial positions, the end of its stand-alone WomanNews section and the demise of a legendary local news service. New City News Service, the descendant of the City News Bureau that sent a young Mike Royko and generations of other cub reporters onto Chicago's streets to chronicle crimes and fires, wound up in the morgue...

Newsday yesterday dismissed 72 employees from across the newspaper and announced that 40 additional vacant jobs will be eliminated. No "news gathering personnel" were affected by yesterday's announcement, according to a memo to employees from publisher Timothy P. Knight, issued yesterday afternoon. The move comes a month after the newsroom staff was reduced by 59 people, largely through buyouts....

The Morning Call will end publication of Chronicle Newspapers, its chain of 11 weekly community papers, as part of cost-cutting measures that include layoffs in other departments, officials said Thursday. The newspaper will permanently lay off about 5 percent of its workers, spokeswoman Vicki Mayk said. That amounts to almost 50 people based on The Morning Call's employment of 950. he paper, one...

JERUSALEM, Dec 1 (Reuters) - Israeli forces have arrested a reporter for the Web site of the Arabic satellite channel Al Jazeera television station in the West Bank town of Hebron. Awad Rajoub, 29, was arrested at his home there on Wednesday evening, Walid al-Amari, Al Jazeera bureaux chief for the West Bank, Gaza and Jerusalem, said on Thursday. Israel has not explained the arrest, he told...

Are the media and non-governmental organizations (NGOs) in Japan friends or foes? How should the media cover NGOs? Should NGOs stage media stunts? Those were some of the questions posed to a panel of activists and journalists in Kyoto last month. Though the Japanese civil society sector has traditionally been smaller than in other major developed countries, the growing role of NGOs is one of most...

For a missing child to attract widespread publicity and improve the odds of being found, it helps if the child is white, wealthy, cute and under 12. Experts agree that whites account for only half of the nation’s missing children. But white children were the subjects of more than two-thirds of the dispatches appearing on the Associated Press’ national wire during the last five years and for three...

The newspaper publisher Trinity Mirror has started a new round of job cuts, which could see some 750 workers axed at its regional and national titles, in a further sign that the industry is struggling. The news follows the shock announcement earlier this week that Daily Mail & General Trust was bailing out of the regional newspaper industry with the sale of its Northcliffe division. News...

NEW YORK: So what, exactly, is this Lincoln Group that helped plant pro-American propaganda in the Iraqi press, a phenomenon that has made front-page news this week and has now been denounced by everyone from top military leaders to journalism ethicists? And what about its sub-contractor, BKSH & Associates? The story starts with the Washington D.C.-based Lincoln Alliance Corporation, a "business...

A group of private equity firms, including two that own a significant stake in the Orange County Register, is mulling over a bid for newspaper chain Knight Ridder Inc. Blackstone Group, Providence Equity Partners Inc. and Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. are working on a possible offer for the San Jose-based company, three people with knowledge of the discussions with Knight Ridder said Thursday. It...