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(November 30, 2005) -- The sequence and scenario are increasingly familiar at newspapers from Los Angeles to New York. The script: newspaper revenue lags and the stock price dips, so expenses -- travel, training, newsprint and people -- are cut. All of these belt-tightening measures exact a toll on a newspaper's quality, but none more so than reduced staff. The observation by veteran editor Gene...

The world's media has been criticised for being too negative in its reporting of environmental issues. Continual coverage of destruction was making people switch off, delegates at the International Media and Environment Summit (Imes) in Kuching, Malaysia, were told. "We keep crying wolf and we keep overstating the doomsday scenario," said Ong Keng Yong, the Secretary General of the Association of...

NEW YORK (AdAge.com) -- Continuing its efforts to convince ad buyers that newspapers are undervalued, the Newspaper Association of America has formed an executive advisory council composed of top media agency executives and high-power advertisers. As soon as the council was assembled, however, the riptides pulling at a newspaper industry with stagnant paid circulation again became clear. Where the...

BERKELEY, Calif.--When the knock came at the door, Zhao Ling knew what to do. She shoved her notes into an envelope and threw them out the window of her 12th floor hotel room. She shut off her cell phone. Then she held her breath. Zhao was working undercover, reporting on Chinese farmers in the Sichuan Province city of Zigong who had been left homeless and jobless after the government took their...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Top media executives on Wednesday raised fresh doubts about the U.S. newspaper industry's future, saying the advertising climate remains depressed and publishers may be forced to look at sales. "There's a real question about what the sustainable model is in the newspaper business," David Sanderson, head of the global media practice at consulting firm Bain & Co., told the...

Bankers liken a potential acquisition of newspaper publisher Knight Ridder to buying beachfront property: It's a valuable, hard-to-come-by asset, but it's eroding. The question for private-equity firms, which typically like to exit their investments after about five years, is whether the San Jose, Calif., company's business will suffer more damage before they cash out. Like most newspaper...

NEW YORK A Syrian journalist often used as a fixer for Western news outlets has taken responsibility for a Cox News Service story that contained fabricated quotes and plagiarized material. George Baghdadi, a Syrian who has worked for USA Today and Time magazine, among other Western news outlets, took responsibility for the errors in an e-mail to Cox Newspapers' Washington Bureau Chief Andy...

France has given the go-ahead to a long-planned Gallic rival to CNN, the international rolling news channel. La chaine francaise d'information internationale (CFII) is expected to start broadcasting in the second half of 2006. Jacques Chirac, French president, said it was necessary to be in the "front rank in the global battle of images" to project France's world view abroad. The channel will...

NEW YORK -(Dow Jones)- "The Journal Editorial Report," a current-events television program produced by Dow Jones & Co.'s (DJ) Wall Street Journal, has found a new home at the Fox News Channel. The TV show, which was launched in September 2004 on the Public Broadcasting Service and features members of the Journal's editorial board, will air its final episode on PBS on Dec. 2. It will begin airing...

The Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB) has announced the final advertising creative guidelines for broadband video commercials online. These creative guidelines were set after an extensive review of industry feedback over the past few months. The IAB has developed a compliance programme to assist advertisers in identifying those publishers and technology providers who are compliant with these...