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New York - Yahoo, hoping to attract younger audiences to its news site, is making its first major foray into original content with a brash, one-man effort to illuminate the world's armed conflicts. The internet company's media group has hired Kevin Sites, a 42-year-old war correspondent who has worked for NBC and CNN, to spend a year traveling the globe and telling the human stories behind some of...

NEW YORK (Mediaweek) Yahoo! has hired veteran war correspondent Kevin Sites to launch an online news journal, Kevin Sites in the Hot Zone, which the company claims will provide users "an unprecedented view of armed conflict throughout the world." Hot Zone, which will cover Sites' travels throughout war-torn areas of the globe for a one-year period, will be aimed at a worldwide audience. Thus far...

CBS News has launched Public Eye, an unprecendented effort to bring transparency to the editorial operations of a major news network, and part of CBS News' attempt to regain the trust of the public after last year's "Memogate." Public Eye is built around a blog format, in which the journalists who make the editorial decisions at CBS News and CBSNews.com will now be asked to explain and answer...

SAN JOSE, Calif. – Knight Ridder Inc., one of the nation's largest newspaper publishers, said today that third-quarter earnings from continuing operations will decline by about 20 percent due to damages related to Hurricane Katrina and higher newsprint costs. Last year, the company reported third-quarter earnings per share from continuing operations of 93 cents, compared with total earnings per...

SAN FRANCISCO – "Black general takes charge in New Orleans." "Undocumented won't be allowed to receive help from FEMA." "1,700 Koreans in New Orleans yet to be located." With passion and pride, ethnic news organizations in the United States are sending reporters, photographers and TV crews to the disaster area and covering the Hurricane Katrina story from angles not seen in many major metropolitan...

New Orleans -- A long caravan of white vans led by an Army humvee rolled Monday through New Orleans' Bywater district, a poor, mostly black neighborhood, northeast of the French Quarter. Recovery team members wearing white protective suits and black boots stopped at houses with spray painted markings on the doors designating there were dead bodies inside. Outside one house on Kentucky Street, a...

September 20 is the last day for Indian and Pakistani journalists in the middle of their careers to apply for the Saneeya Hussain Indo-Pak Media Fellowships. The fellowships offer a grant of US$600 plus financial support for an investigative project. The aim is to encourage rational, balanced reporting on issues related to the tensions between India and Pakistan. Panos South Asia is organizing the...

LONDON – There has been a broadly positive reaction to The Guardian's redesign from media buyers, with predictions old readers would be won back, but this was qualified by concerns about its distribution and problems that its new size and folded format might bring. Buyers were immediately picking up on the problems that the new size might bring The Guardian because its new folded format could see...

LONDON, England -- The Guardian newspaper published its first full-color, trimmed-down edition Monday, the third British broadsheet to switch to a smaller format. The midsize "Berliner" format -- midway between tabloid and broadsheet -- rolled off the company's £50 million new presses as part of an £80 million redesign. France's Le Monde newspaper also uses the "Berliner" format, with pages 12.4...

LONDON – Britain's Guardian newspaper launched its trimmer format Monday with color on every page, upping the competition with other British broadsheets that have scaled down in recent years. The Guardian is the third major British paper to move to a smaller, more commuter-friendly format in a bid to reverse slumping sales. It followed The Times and The Independent in switching to tabloid format...