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Le Monde, the highbrow French daily, has finally decided to get its act together and go in for a facelift to start with. It has launched its first major editorial redesign in a decade with emphasis on bigger photographs, more colour, larger typefaces, and fewer articles to hold on to its steadily eroding base of readers and advertisers. The day after The traditional Le Monde was last redesigned in...

Corporates need not ignore what blogs and bloggers at their own peril. IBM has introduced a new software solution that will enable businesses to make sense of the explosion of information from emerging social networks on the Web to deliver new insight into brand reputation and customer, competitor and public opinion about their company. BLOG WATCHER: IBM's new software will make it easier for...

Pajamas Media, a new blogging venture designed to bring together top online writers, journalists and commentators under a single umbrella, on Monday announced it has expanded its operations to include regional offices in the Los Angeles and New York. BIZ TIME: PajamasMedia.com The organisation also strengthened its advertising and sales team with the hiring of Tom Troja, vice president of...

Journalists from Ukraine and Gambia have been honoured with the International Press Freedom Award for persisting in their work even while facing serious threats to their lives. Mykola Veresen of Ukraine and Alagi Yorro Jallow of Gambia were selected from an exceptional group of nominees, the largest list of submissions Canadian Journalists for Free Expression (CJFE) has considered in recent years...

The Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University is inviting journalists with at least five years of full-time professional experience in the news media to apply for the 2007 Nieman International Fellowships. The deadline for the 2007 International Fellowships is December 15, 2005. Successful candidates will be notified by February 15, 2006. Awarded each year to 12 working journalists...

Accomplished journalists worldwide are eligible for a fellowship at Stanford University in the state of California, for nine months of independent study and reflection. The John S Knight Fellowships at Stanford are open to all kinds of journalists from outside the US, including anchors, photographers, Web editors, producers and cartoonists. The programme selects six to eight candidates with at...

The average weekday circulation of newspapers in the United States (US) has fallen by 2.6 per cent in six months ending September, according to a report released on Monday. An analysis by the Newspaper Association of America (NAA) has found that for the six-month period ending September 30, 2005, the average daily circulation for all 789 newspapers reporting for comparable periods was 45,153,192...

NEW YORK – One of the toughest challenges media executives face is deciding how to deal with people such as Kelly Cunningham. The 30-year-old single mom, a sales manager at a portable fan company in Chicago, is content to watch just a few television channels, mostly local stations and cable news, on her 27-inch analog TV. She's so satisfied with her budget cable service, at about $20 per month...

Microsoft has emerged as the front-runner in the talks surrounding the potential sale of a stake in America Online, two people involved in the negotiations said. But despite a flurry of interest in AOL from Microsoft, Google and others, finding a deal has been harder than Time Warner may have hoped. Behind the scenes, a number of questions remain that could hold up or even derail a potential...

The European Federation of Journalists (EFJ) has urged European Union institutions and national governments to recognise, protect, and enforce journalists' authors' rights throughout the union. The appeal was made in a statement issued on Monday after a two-day EFJ seminar on ownership of authors' rights and collective management in the European Union. The federation called on on EU member states...