News

INTERNET AD REVENUES FOR THE first half of this year surged to $5.8 billion--a 26 percent increase from the same period in 2004, according to a report released by the Interactive Advertising Bureau and PricewaterhouseCoopers Monday. Online ad revenue for this year's second quarter totaled just under $3 billion, also marking a 26 percent increase over the second quarter of last year, as well as an...

Hundreds of thousands of Americans around the country protested the Iraq War on the weekend of September 24-25, with the largest demonstration bringing between 100,000 and 300,000 to Washington, D.C. on Saturday. But if you relied on television for your news, you'd hardly know the protests happened at all. According to the Nexis news database, the only mention on the network newscasts that...

SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Google Inc. said late on Monday that it was tripling the number of Web pages that its system can search, seeking to upstage rival Yahoo Inc. in claims to be the world's widest Web search. But Google also said it would no longer publicize the number of Web pages available from any search -- calling a halt to what analysts say has become an increasingly meaningless size...

The decline in newspaper circulation figures and the tepid growth of subscription, single copy purchase, and advertising revenues between 2005 and 2009 is a global phenomenon, says PricewaterhouseCoopers’ Global Entertainment and Media Outlook: 2005-2009. No matter where in the world the newspaper business is located, the story repeats itself. The Outlook defines the newspaper publishing market as...

Magazines are diaries of popular culture. They have intimate relationships with their readers that are not duplicated by other media channels, and they have close ties with other segments of the media and entertainment industry: The stories that appear in magazines often become sources of songs, books, and motion pictures. In addition, magazines exercise special influence in the social sphere –...

In the latest round of the search-index size contest, Google unveiled an updated index it said is more than three times larger than that of any of its search engine competitors. "We're celebrating our seventh birthday...We had a pretty strong year," Google Chief Executive Eric Schmidt said in a phone interview with CNET News.com, as he listed the launch of new products including Google Talk...

It is being seen as a move not quite in tune with the times ? the decision of the New York Times to put its columnists behind a paywall has not made it very popular on the Web. At a time when newspapers are going out of their way to accommodate citizen journalists on the websites, and making way for blogging channels on their online homes, NYT has launched TimesSelect and made its most read...

Yahoo Inc. has hired a roster of popular authors to write financial columns for its Web site, marking one of the company's biggest moves into original content. The Internet company today will begin publishing columns about personal finance and investing by an array of writers, including such well-known names in the business press as Ben Stein, Robert Kiyosaki and Stephen Covey. The Sunnyvale...

Fewer villages in Darfur are left to be destroyed,butthe killing -- and the use of rape as a weapon by the Sudan government's Janjaweed and soldiers -- continues. As U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan told the BBC on July 3: "We have learned nothing from Rwanda," an atrocity which we were told would never happen again. Eric Reeves of Smith College in Massachusetts, the principal historian of the...

The International Federation of Journalists today warned that the seven-year jail term imposed on Al Jazeera television reporter Tayseer Allouni by Spanish judges is a punitive action that could lead to increasing self-censorship in media reporting on security issues and organisations branded as "terrorist". Allouni, a veteran and respected journalist in the Middle East, was arrested in November...