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Bob Woodward probably hoped that the long holiday weekend would break the momentum of an uproar that suddenly confronted him midway through November. But three days after Thanksgiving, on NBC’s "Meet the Press," a question about the famed Washington Post reporter provoked anything but the customary adulation. "I think none of us can really understand Bob’s silence for two years about his own role...

Russian Defense Minister Sergei Ivanov is known to be one of the closest aides to President Vladimir Putin, a founding member of the inner circle where key decisions are prepared with absolute confidentiality and zero leaks. That loyalty helps Putin to remain a master of the state apparatus even in his "lame duck" position, and two weeks ago he asserted his control with a surprise reshuffling of...

New Delhi, November 26: Two women correspondents of a news channel, while returning home in a vehicle after work, were chased and cornered by a white Indica car near Nizamuddin bridge here last night. The two women Star News correspondents were returning home from work at night in the company’s car when a white Indica car (HR 38 KT 4373) started chasing them while crossing the Nizamuddin Bridge...

(NewsYemen) Nov 27, Sanaa – In one of the harshest court verdicts issued recently against the press, the Western Court of Sanaa sentenced yesterday the Al-Tajammu opposition newspaper to closure for six months, banned its Editor-in-Chief and one of its writers from writing for a year and fined them a total of YR 300,000 (about USD 1,500). The newspaper’s Editor-in-Chief Dr. Abdulrahman Abdullah...

Most of the hundreds of readers who wrote and called after my column on Bob Woodward ran last week said I was way too soft on him and on The Post. I think their concerns and questions deserve to be answered. One of those readers, Bob Woodward, thinks that some of his critics have "pigeonholed" him unfairly. "For 34 years of reporting for The Post and 13 best-selling books, I have tried to focus on...

For those who love newspapers - to read them, write them and rail at them - these are somber times. Metropolitan dailies face rising costs, falling share prices and declining circulation - 2.6 percent in the last six months alone. American papers have shed more than 1,900 jobs since the beginning of the year, industry publication Editor & Publisher reports. The mammoth Knight Ridder Corp., which...

After years as an afterthought, newspaper Web sites are taking on a bigger role in old media's fight against shrinking circulation and new competition for ad dollars. It is a shift born partly of necessity. Circulation among the top 20 newspapers dropped 2.6 percent from March to September this year – the largest sixth-month drop since 1991, according to the Audit Bureau of Circulations. That...

When Anita Campbell started her Web log about small-business trends two years ago, she thought it would simply be a service for her clients and help her consulting business grow. Instead, she said, the blog "just took off," attracting more readers than she had dreamed of. Then, companies offered to pay her to post advertisements and product mentions on her site. There were enough offers, she said...

The head of Al Jazeera’s new English language channel has launched a scathing attack on Pentagon chief Donald Rumsfeld, shortly before the station’s launch in the US. Accusing Rumsfeld of spreading "complete misinformation" about the Doha-based broadcaster, Nigel Parsons said the US defence secretary was out of sync with Washington’s PR efforts abroad. In an interview with Arabian Business...

THE Middle Eastern news network Al-Jazeera was accused by Donald Rumsfeld, the American defence secretary, of broadcasting "vicious, inaccurate and inexcusable" reports about the war in Iraq the day before President George W Bush met Tony Blair at the White House and apparently suggested bombing the station’s headquarters. Rumsfeld denounced the satellite television station at a Pentagon briefing...