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The outward and visible pace of change seems suddenly frenetic. One minute the Guardian changes shape, the next the Sunday and Daily Telegraph begin testing new tabloid sections inside a broadsheet wrapper, the Independent on Sunday prepares to go the whole hog - and the Sunday Times carries on compacting its innards so that, as one very senior paper boy observes, you can't get it through any...

NADA SELAMEH doesn't hold back her opinions on the American media. "I don't like the way they represent us," she said. They make the American public attack us. What upsets me is the way they portray Muslim women as being oppressed by their men." Before 9/11, Selameh never wore a hijab, the head scarf some Muslim women wear as an expression of modesty. But when dusty burkas became the defining...

NEW YORK – NBC anchor Brian Williams, who returned to storm-ravaged New Orleans on Thursday for his third trip in as many weeks, said he couldn't bring himself to stay away from the region for very long. The experience has also moved him to consider other areas of coverage that he says need to be addressed. "I will be asking my network to lead a discussion on the issues of class, race, energy, the...

In our time, journalism's credibility has taken some big hits, most notably from criticism and attacks arising out of fabricated stories, exemplified by two notorious malefactors - Janet Cooke of The Washington Post in the early '80s and more recently, Jayson Blair of The New York Times. But the cycle of deception wasn't confined to two of the nation's most important newspapers. It entangled...

Hours after their detention, more than 80 journalists, who protested against government's continued crackdown on media, have been released even as 17 scribes in a western Nepal district have decided to leave the area after allegedly receiving threats from local Army. The 81 journalists, released late last night, were detained earlier in the day at Ratnapark, a restricted area at the centre of...

The Natali Prize for journalism is a prize for excellence in reporting on human rights and democracy in the developing world. It was created in 1992 by the European Union to promote quality in journalism and to commemorate the devotion of Lorenzo Natali, the former Vice-President of the European Commission in charge of development cooperation between 1985 and 1989. His work and commitment...

NEW YORK (AFP) - British Prime Minister Tony Blair has complained privately to media tycoon Rupert Murdoch that the BBC's coverage of Hurricane Katrina carried an anti-American bias, Murdoch said at a conference here. Murdoch, chairman of the media conglomerate News Corporation, recounted a conversation with the British leader at a panel discussion late Friday hosted by former president Bill...

Yahoo's latest online news project is called "The Hot Zone" and is billed as a much-needed look at war-torn regions that have drawn scant mainstream media coverage. But the title could just as easily describe the trouble the media giant could encounter as it ventures for the first time into original news reporting. Web portals have traditionally played the role of news aggregators, publishing the...

BOULDER, Colo. (September 16, 2005) -- NYTimes.com debuts a major initiative on Monday: TimesSelect, a paid-subscription service that grants access to selected premium Web content and services. This is a big deal, for the New York Times, and for the newspaper industry. Now, up front let me say that I like the overall thrust of this initiative -- but I'm skeptical of one major component, putting...

KATHMANDU, Sept 16 - Police cracked down on journalists demonstrating peacefully in Kathmandu on Friday, arresting about 80 journalists. Most of them were picked up by police before the protest meet. They were released in the evening. Defying the government ban on demonstrations and rallies, journalists assembled at Ratnapark and chanted slogans demanding immediate restoration of press freedom and...