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Broadcast journalists from developing countries have until November 1 to apply for funding to attend a course in the Netherlands on globalization and broadcast news. November 15 is the deadline for self-paying or sponsored journalists. The Radio Netherlands Training Centre (RNTC) is organizing the course, scheduled for February 6 to April 28 in Hilversum. Its aim is to better train broadcast...

NEW YORK (CNN/Money) - It's true. There is a liberal bias when it comes to the media... many investors are biased against big media stocks this year and they have liberally sold their shares. The stock prices of the four major media and entertainment firms – Walt Disney (Research), Viacom (Research), News Corp. (Research) and Time Warner (Research) -- are down an average of 11.2 percent through...

SAN JOSE, Calif., Oct. 3 /PRNewswire-AsiaNet/ - Spy Media announced today the launch of the first news photo marketplace for everyone to buy and sell news photos. Starting today, the site is available for uploading uncensored news photos. Uploading will be free for the month of October. Uploaders must be the original author, provide written expression, structured profile information and adhere to...

LOS ANGELES -- Is Marilyn Monroe the answer to the hard times at the Los Angeles Times? After five years of sagging circulation and advertising, new managers at the Times are pushing for more coverage of Hollywood and celebrities. They want shorter stories and more regional reporting in the intensely competitive bedroom communities around Los Angeles. And there is a campaign for more combination...

The Washington Post is a bloated newspaper that should cut its voluminous and often dull output by a third to attract more readers, some say. The Washington Post's rich offerings have attracted an incredibly loyal core of readers who would be alienated by a drastic personality change, others say. The people who hold these divergent views all work for the capital's biggest paper, and they are...

Talks between the broadcast networks and cable operators to bring prime-time entertainment shows to video-on-demand platforms are beginning to take on a more serious tone. There’s a strong chance that some networks could launch on-demand services on some systems as early as next summer and almost certainly by the start of the 2006-07 season. What’s fueling this new sense of urgency is the...

For the first time in its history, the Internet is running a real risk of fracturing into multiple and perhaps even incompatible networks. At a meeting in Geneva last week, the Bush administration objected to the idea of the United Nations running the top-level servers that direct traffic to the master databases of all domain names. That's not new, of course--the administration has been humming...

From the start, the World Wide Web has been a vessel of quasi-religious longing. And why not? For those seeking to transcend the physical world, the Web presents a readymade Promised Land. On the Internet, we're all bodiless, symbols speaking to symbols in symbols. The early texts of Web metaphysics, many written by thinkers associated with or influenced by the post-60s New Age movement, are rich...

GENEVA -- The United States was isolated on September 30 as it sought to defend its monopoly over regulation of the Internet against the European Union and other countries that are demanding a share of the action, officials said. "On the issue of Internet governance, very big differences of opinion exist," the head of the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) said following a preparatory...

In a last-minute change of heart, European Union officials have put their support behind proposals to wrest control of the Internet from the world’s last superpower, the USA. The US elected to reject the proposed changes during a meeting last Friday. The event transpired during preparatory talks for the second phase of the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS). Its effect will be to...