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Earlier this year, the feminist writer Susan Estrich said that women's bylines appeared far less frequently than men's on newspaper opinion pages like those of The Los Angeles Times. Now, a Condé Nast editor is making a similar case against several of publishing's top general-interest magazines - including some owned by Condé Nast. Ruth Davis Konigsberg, a deputy editor at Glamour, began counting...

Gaza withdrawal. © Marco Di Lauro A shot of two Palestinian boys watching men stand on the roof of the remains of a synagogue at the Netzarim settlement in the Gaza Strip has won the grand prize at Editor & Publisher's Sixth Annual Photos of the Year contest. Marco Di Lauro of Getty Images won the prize for the photograph taken as Palestinians celebrated the Israeli withdrawal on September 12...

The impressive growth of the Internet in China is matched by the authorities’ energetic attempts to monitor, censor and repress Internet activity, with tough laws, jailing cyber-dissidents, blocking access to websites, monitoring online forums and shutting down cybercafés, according to Reporters sans Frontières (RSF). MONITORED: There are just five backbones or hubs through which all traffic must...

China now has more than 100 million Internet users. The number of netizens in China rose to 103 million by late June this year, according to official figures. Mao Qian, head of Optical Telecommunications Committee of China Telecommunications Society, said the statistitcs were from a report that was recently completed based on the 16th survey into the development of the Internet in China. NET...

News Corp is likely to form a new company with partners to allow it to enter the high-speed Internet market in the United States (US), the Wall Street Journal reported on Saturday. Rupert Murdoch, News Corp chief executive, told the newspaper, "Here (in the United States), we don't know. We may be forming a company with partners to build something out here that would give you broadband." NEWS MEN...

Clouds of uncertainty loom large over the fate of Knight Ridder, the second largest publisher of newspapers in the United States. The largest shareholder in the company that publishes 32 newspapers has demanded that the board of directors should sell it off. With the third-largest investor joining the issue, rumours and speculations are rife in the US newspaper industry about Knight Ridder being...

The newspaper you are now reading suddenly finds itself in the midst of a fast-moving saga about its future and that of its industry. The story broke before the market closed on Tuesday. That's when Bruce Sherman, CEO at the Florida-based Private Capital Management (PCM) unit of Legg Mason, disclosed to securities regulators the extent of his dissatisfaction with the financial performance of...

Washington Post Co has said its third-quarter profit fell 19 per cent due to damage from Hurricane Katrina to its cable television unit as well as rising newsprint costs and weaker magazine advertising. The publisher of the Washington Post newspaper and Newsweek magazine said Friday that quarterly profit fell to $66.6 million, or $6.89 a share, compared to $82.5 million, or $8.57 a share, in the...

Fifty-eight journalists from 24 foreign countries and regions and Korean journalists attending the 2005 Asia Journalists Forum and Plenary Session of the Asia Journalists Association in Seoul and Jeju from Oct. 30 to Nov. 5 rounded off their sessions with fresh commitments to join hands in protecting and expanding the press freedom, safety and rights of journalists. They passed two resolutions...

SEOUL (Nov. 5, 2005) – The Asian Journalists Association has adopted its charter and appointed two of its five vice presidents. With the approval of its charter, the AJA plans to announce the final lineup of its Executive Council members as early as possible. At its plenary session on Jeju Island on Nov. 2, participants of the AJA approved the AJA Charter, which was drafted by several founding...