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THE reputations of many national newspaper editors are on the line this autumn but none faces so critical a test of his judgment as Alan Rusbridger, Editor of The Guardian. Strategic decisions by Rusbridger’s two predecessors were critical to The Guardian’s standing. As editor for 19 years from 1956, Alastair Hetherington removed Manchester from the masthead, moved his office to London and made...

A Mumbai photographer is among the five winners of National Geography Society's 2005 All Roads Photography Program, which recognises "indigenous or under-represented" photographers who document changing cultures in their own countries. The 2005 photography winners are: Marcela Toboada Avilés of Mexico for "Women Of Clay." Toboada is a self-taught freelance photographer who lives in Oaxaca...

September 16, 2005 -- Time Warner stock jumped yesterday as investors cheered the possibility of a wide-ranging Internet partnership with Microsoft. Time Warner has been in discussions with Microsoft about selling a stake in its beleaguered America Online unit and merging AOL with Microsoft's Web unit MSN. The Post broke the news of the talks yesterday. Time Warner's shares rose 58 cents, or 3.2...

Humbled by the surging fortunes of Google Inc. and Yahoo Inc., two titans of the Internet's early days – Microsoft Corp. and Time Warner Inc.'s America Online – might scrap their historic rivalry and join forces. Microsoft's MSN and AOL are negotiating to combine some or all of their operations – including their free e-mail and instant-messaging services as well as widely viewed portal pages...

Over the last few weeks, the media have given the Katrina disaster the special treatment reserved for Ultra-Mega-Double-Select Topic-A stories. You've read the massive headlines and gaped at the photo spreads of New Orleans under water. You've watched as the television banners evolved from "DEVASTATION IN THE GULF" (CBS) to "ROAD TO RECOVERY" (CNN). You've heard the theme music. And as the Gulf...

Soon after the floodwaters engulfed New Orleans, reporters chronicled the thousands trapped at the Superdome, trapped at the convention center, and trapped on rooftops. As the days passed, news consumers had to wonder: Why couldn’t citizens just hike out of the city to the nearest patch of dry land? The Socialist Worker webzine on Sept. 6 provided an answer: You couldn’t leave without facing down...

Yahoo! has been taking a beating in the blogosphere lately. On Sept. 6 came the revelation that it provided information that helped Beijing jail a journalist. Days earlier, a report said Yahoo was actively supporting the companies that spawn pop-up ads. Around the same time, bloggers started griping about new Yahoo software downloads that change the preferences on users' PCs. Pretty soon, even a...

The new Divya Bhaskar campaign has attracted more than just media attention. The campaign used statements made by media practitioners on Divya Bhaskar's growth. While, on the one hand, competition like Gujarat Samachar has taken serious objection to this, the professionals whose quotes have been used insisted that they were not informed that these were to be used as testimonials in these ads...

LONDON - The Guardian's Berliner relaunch provided a dramatic 40% sales increase on its first day of distribution. Unofficial figures suggest that The Guardian put on the 40 per cent growth following the move to the smaller format, which was supported by a major advertising campaign through DDB London. The paper is in need of significant sales increases to offset the £80m it has invested in the...

Within one week, a 184-year-old re-invents itself, a nova product for an up to now non-existing market will hit the streets, and an online product's official print version is launched. Is it coincidence that all these happened within one week, or is it just emphasising the vibrant potential of the print media market? Previously, analysts were reluctant to sound anywhere near positive about print...