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It was a moment both remarkable and uncomfortable. There, on the night of November 21, was Bob Woodward looking nervous and dry-mouthed, trying to defend his hard-earned legacy to – of all people – a suddenly aggressive and sharp-elbowed Larry King. "So it’s quid pro quo," said the cable schmooze-meister to his old pal Woodward, snappily summing up the reporter’s symbiotic relationships with his...

Back in 1987, then Prime Minister of France Jacques Chirac called for the creation of a French international news network. Now, 18 years later, his dream is en route to being realised. Culture and Communications Minister Renaud Donnedieu de Vabres announced 30 November the launch of a "chaîne d'information internationale" (CII), dedicated to giving French spin on world news following the model of...

Military autopsy reports provide indisputable proof that detainees are being tortured to death while in US military custody. Yet the corporate media of the United States (US) is covering it with the seriousness of a garage sale for the local Baptist Church, media research organisation Project Censored has said. According to Prof Peter Phillips, director, Project Censored, a press release on these...

At Google, we think business guru Peter Drucker well understood how to manage the new breed of "knowledge workers." After all, Drucker invented the term in 1959. He says knowledge workers believe they are paid to be effective, not to work 9 to 5, and that smart businesses will "strip away everything that gets in their knowledge workers' way." Those that succeed will attract the best performers...

The biases of the New York Times surface in one or another fashion on a daily basis, but while sometimes awfully crude, these manifestations of bias are often sufficiently subtle and self-assured, with facts galore thrown in, that it is easy to get fooled by them. Analyzing them is still a useful enterprise to keep us alert to the paper’s ideological premises and numerous crimes of omission...

TODAY'S execution of Nguyen Tuong Van has forced the mandatory death penalty issue onto the agenda in Singapore, with the local media unable to ignore the political lobbying, threatened trade boycotts and heated public debate in Australia. In a rare break with the government line, the broadsheet Straits Times ran an article discussing the mandatory death penalty, despite numerous government...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Media managers will get their hands dirty in 2006, experimenting with new and untested formats to find a better formula of reaching appropriate audiences. Executives speaking at the Reuters Media and Advertising Summit in New York this week pointed to dozens of new tactics worth trying, and others worth dropping, as growth in new media outlets disrupts the television-dominated...

Barely three days after the media lauded a rare conviction in the killing of a journalist, a reporter was shot dead Thursday night at a public market in the central Philippines, the 10th journalist to be killed this year, Reuters reported. George Benaojan, 27, was talking to a colleague at the public market in Talisay City on the central island of Cebu when a lone gunman shot him in the neck and...

Three myths that have been perpetrated and perpetuated by the Israeli media are already being employed by the various parties for their election campaigns. # The right-wing myth: Gush Katif has been forgotten. The parties to the right of the Likud - and even some of the Likud leadership contenders - are trying to harness public sympathy for the 10,000 evacuated settlers of Gush Katif and Northern...

It's -30- for New City News Service, which in journalism parlance means the end of the story. The news service that had its heyday in the Front Page era of Chicago journalism will cease operations Jan. 1, with owner Chicago Tribune folding many of its news gathering activities into its own 24-hour Internet-based news operation. The Tribune's decision to eliminate the 19 City News positions was...