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News Corp chairman Rupert Murdoch suffered a shareholder backlash today, although the billionaire angrily denied there was an "outcry" about his company's controversial 'poison pill' takeover defence measure. Just over 13 per cent of News Corp shareholders opted to withhold their vote in the re-election of four of the company's directors. It was viewed as a protest against Murdoch's controversial...

News Corp chairman Rupert Murdoch suffered a shareholder backlash, although the billionaire angrily denied there was an "outcry" about his company's controversial `poison pill' takeover defence measure. Just over 13 per cent of News Corp shareholders opted to withhold their vote in the re-election of four of the company's directors. It was viewed as a protest against Murdoch's controversial...

Yahoo's third quarter earnings report, showing a 42 per cent net revenue increase, is more than a result of its much talked about advertising strategy – it has actually reaped its content sowings. On Tuesday, Yahoo Inc posted steady profits and higher revenues from advertising sales, and moderately raised its revenue target for the rest of the year. MANY WINDOWS: A lot of Yahoo's services include...

Chennai, India: If you are reading this article in the newspaper, and not on the internet, you're apparently part of a dying breed. There is broad consensus in the West that newspapers are in terminal decline. It's not that we're facing a future without reading, just that we'll be getting out news delivered via personalised, electronic platforms. The leading American media analyst Philip Meyer...

The US Congress has recently made another decision regarding the issue of freedom of speech and press in Russia. American officials would like to call upon the Russian administration to give more freedom to Russian media outlets. The anti-Russian provocation in the US Congress was initiated by Republican Congressman Thaddeus McCotter. The official referred to last year's report from the US State...

The tragic events of April 8th 2003 when three journalists were killed by American military in Baghdad will haunt the United States until it carries out independent inquiries into the deaths, says the International Federation of Journalists today following the news that Spain has issued warrants for the arrest of three soldiers. The IFJ says that there are 18 deaths of journalists and media staff...

WASHINGTON – In the latest fallout from the CIA leak investigation, reporter Judith Miller and The New York Times are engaging in a very public fight about her seeming lack of candor in the case. In a memo to the staff, Executive Editor Bill Keller says Miller "seems to have misled" the newspaper's Washington bureau chief, Phil Taubman, who said Miller told him in the fall of 2003 that she was not...

A Madrid court has issued arrest warrants against three US soldiers it held responsible for the death of a Spanish television cameraman during the Iraq war. Lieutenant Colonel Philip de Camp, Captain Philip Wolford and Sergeant Shawn Gibson of the US army are wanted for questioning as suspects in the killing of José Couso. JUST AIM AND SHOOT: "If they’re capable of murdering a journalist with...

LOS ANGELES - That giant sucking noise you hear is the sound of advertising dollars moving from traditional media and into new media like the Internet. It's changing the landscape of the advertising business, and no company is more responsible for the shift than Google. Like a giant magnet, Google is pulling more and more advertising dollars on to the Internet and away from traditional media like...

The government has allowed foreign institution investors (FII) to invest up to 26 per cent in news and current affairs channels. It has also given a green signal to television channels and teleports to uplink in Ku-Band through Indian satellites with the condition that this permission will not be used to run or operate DTH service without proper license. LAWS OF CRICKET: The mandatory sharing of...