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Yahoo News is sending a veteran war correspondent on a journey to cover every armed conflict in the world within a year. Yahoo Inc. announced Monday that it is launching Kevin Sites in the Hot Zone. The accomplished combat journalist will embark on the solo trip Sept. 26. He will combine the key multimedia elements, including exclusive video feed, text and audio, to narrate stories about the...

SANTA MONICA, Calif. - Yahoo, in its first big move into original online video programming, is betting that war and conflict will lure new viewers. Lloyd Braun, the former chairman of ABC's entertainment group who now oversees Yahoo's expanded media group in Santa Monica, has hired Kevin Sites, a veteran television correspondent, to produce a multimedia Web site that will report on wars around the...

Newspapers and television stations, as many people know, have been losing readers and viewers for years. But in New Orleans over the last two weeks, when news was precious, the local media's customer base - and its advertisers - literally vanished, exiled from home in a vast diaspora beyond the reach of telemarketers and ad salesmen. New Orleans media outlets, including The Times-Picayune and...

hirty years after the Internet was created as a communications system of last resort, the network fulfilled its mission during the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina – but in ways more sweeping than its founders could have imagined. It reunited families and connected them with shelter. It turned amateur photographers into chroniclers of history and ordinary people into pundits. It allowed television...

These days, the Bush administration doesn't seem well enough organized to have an enemies list, but if it did, it's clear that some of the upper rungs would be reserved for photojournalists. First, the administration prohibited the press from taking pictures of the flag-draped coffins of U.S. servicemen and women killed in the Iraq war. The ban's ostensible purpose was to protect the privacy of...

LONDON (AP): 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...

The problems confronting the small and medium newspapers with special focus on North East was deliberated upon at a seminar organised by the Indian Newspaper Society in Guwahati earlier this month. Initiated by Sunil Dang, Chairman, Small And Medium Newspapers Committee, the seminar turned out to be quite successful in identifying the difficulties and problems of member publications in the North...

Smaller-sized newspapers are the future, but publishers should take time to optimise their strategy before rushing to change format. This is the advice of Jim Chisholm, Strategy Advisor to the World Association of Newspapers, speaking in Washington at a recent Newspaper Association of America "Free vs. Paid/Tabloid vs. Broadsheet" conference. "Yes smaller formats are a good idea. Readers have been...

AT The Guardian, they claim that they came up with the idea of a compact newspaper long before The Independent. In August 2003, so the story goes, the paper’s editor, Alan Rusbridger, returned from a holiday brandishing a copy of the Italian newspaper La Repubblica. Executives at The Guardian had been looking at the possi-bility of a tabloid edition for months, worried by market research that...

Alan Rusbridger, editor of the Guardian (and editor-in-chief of The Observer), thumbs through a battered volume by CP Scott, the architect of the newspaper that tomorrow embarks on arguably the most radical - and certainly the most expensive - relaunch in its 184-year history. He reads: 'The editor and the business manager should march hand in hand,' and then adds: 'and that's how it was, largely...