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Washington � The United States says that transferring control of the Internet to the United Nations would stifle innovation with excessive bureaucracy and may help repressive regimes curtail free expression online, according to the U.S. coordinator for international communications and information policy. In a November 2 Internet chat, Ambassador David Gross, the U.S. coordinator, will preview an...

Journalist Dahr Jamail chose his words carefully when trying to answer a young boy's question about the U.S. bombing of Fallujah. "The military has to follow orders from above," said Jamail, one of few independent U.S. journalists covering the war in Iraq, who spoke to a capacity crowd at the UCSC Music Recital Hall on Oct. 19. "Even when their own commanders don't agree with the orders, the...

As the White House waits to see whether any of its top officials will be indicted in connection with the leaking of a CIA officer's name, The New York Times is engaged in an extraordinary dispute with one of its reporters over her work on the story. "I've never seen anything quite like this," Los Angeles Times political writer Ron Brownstein said Sunday on CNN's Reliable Sources. Times reporter...

LOS ANGELES (AdAge.com) -- Blog this: U.S. workers in 2005 will waste the equivalent of 551,000 years reading blogs. About 35 million workers -- one in four people in the labor force -- visit blogs and on average spend 3.5 hours, or 9%, of the work week engaged with them, according to Advertising Age’s analysis. Time spent in the office on non-work blogs this year will take up the equivalent of 2...

TWO months ago Bill Keller, the executive editor of The New York Times, told the 1200 or so journalists, photographers, graphic artists and editors on the paper, and the 50 or so staff of the Times online site Nyt.com, that they were to become one merged newsroom. The New York Times, with a circulation of just over 1.1 million, has the largest newsroom of any paper in the US, producing a newspaper...

IT'S bad enough when newspaper editorials, Western human rights groups and ordinary American customers condemn your company for bowing to the Chinese dictatorship and contributing to oppression. But when the outrage begins rising, at great personal risk, from dissident voices trapped inside that dictatorship, well, that has to hurt. Or not. Yahoo has suffered a good deal of opprobrium after it was...

KATHMANDU, Oct 23 - Nine professional organizations, on Sunday, filed a writ petition in the Supreme Court seeking nullification of the media ordinance, claiming it is against the Constitution. "The Ordinance contravenes constitutional provisions on Articles 11, 12, 13, 14, 16, 18, 22 and 72 . So the ordinance should be nullified," reads the petition. The provisions are related to right to...

Google Inc’s rapidly filling coffers appeared to be brimming over in the third quarter as its search engine churned out a sevenfold earnings increase well beyond analyst predictions. HIRING SPREE: Google Inc has been hiring in droves. The company hired another 806 employees between June and October, expanding its payroll to just under 5,000 workers. © Associated Press (AP) The Mountain View based...

In case you wondered: The Judy Miller Saga is front page news in Italy, too. On my second day there last week, I managed to spot coverage not only in the International Herald Tribune but also in the Italian papers. Maybe, like many in the American press, the Italians resent her for helping to push their country into a war. But now, the scandal has gotten even more interesting, and disturbing, with...

The editor of a women's rights magazine in Afghanistan has been sentenced to two years in jail for blasphemy. Ali Mohaqiq Nasab, editor of Huquq-e Zan (Women's Rights), was convicted today after a court in Kabul concluded that several articles in his magazine were anti-Islamic. WOMEN'S VOICE: The judges in charge of the case accused Ali Mohaqiq Nasab, editor of Huquq-e Zan, of intentionally...