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BILOXI, Miss. - The Sun Herald on the Mississippi Gulf Coast printed 80,000 newspapers for Sunday, its largest press run ever, and distributed the issue free at shelters and to relief workers helping with the recovery from Hurricane Katrina. "We believe the information that our reporters, photographers and editors are supplying is essential to the success of our overall recovery during this...

NEW YORK: Public Editor Byron Calame of The New York Times explored the newspaper’s past coverage of New Orleans on Sunday in a column that slammed the paper for failing to report on the hurricane-ravaged city’s potential for disaster and growing poverty population. In his seventh column since assuming the ombudsman-like role last spring, Calame said the Times should have done more in recent years...

HOUSTON, Texas (CNN) -- Rather than fight a lawsuit by CNN, the federal government abandoned its effort Saturday to prevent the media from reporting on the recovery of the dead in New Orleans. Joint Task Force Katrina "has no plans to bar, impede or prevent news media from their news gathering and reporting activities in connection with the deceased Hurricane Katrina victim recovery efforts," said...

US authorities have backed off a proposed ban by the US military on journalists and photographers documenting the recovery of bodies in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina. CNN yesterday filed a suit in the US District Court in Houston to halt government efforts to exclude the media, rejecting the official argument that the television images would not respect the privacy of the dead. A judge...

Imagine, if you will, James Cameron reporting from the Berlin Airlift today. There he is in a bar, about to order another whisky, when his phone rings. "James, desk here, Bild website are saying flights are due to start. Can you re-nose your piece?" Or William Russell in the Crimea, receiving yet another email from the office: "Bill, Sky coverage of Charge pretty thorough. Can you stick to the...

Waleed Khaled was shot by US troops last week while working for Reuters TV. In response US army spokesman General Rick Lynch claimed that the US soldiers "took appropriate measures". Lynch said, "What our soldiers on the scene saw was a car travelling forward at a high rate of speed. It looked like cars that we have seen in the past used as suicide bombs… and there were two local nationals inside...

NEW DELHI, September 10: Indiatimes is most preferred news source on the Web for almost one out of every three Net users in India, according to a recent survey of India's Internet scene. Be it general, sport or event related news, it is the top player in this category with 30 per cent user share. Indiatimes’ popularity can be attributed to its close association with Times of India, one of the...

IN August, Mumbai was not only flooded with rain, but also with newsprint. Two new English newspapers - Daily News and Analysis (DNA) and Hindustan Times (HT) hit the stands in a metropolis where The Times of India (TOI) has had a virtual monopoly. Suddenly, piles of newsprint are being dished out to readers, as newspapers compete with quantity as well as quality. For months, DNA kept up an...

Prague, 9 September 2005 (RFE/RL) -- There are fewer sources of information in Tajikistan these days. Independent media, especially newspapers, have been hit hard. Two dailies have simply vanished -- a fact that has been noticed by those selling newspapers. "The popularity of newspapers like 'Ruzi Nau' and 'Nerui Sukhan' was high among our customers, but they have not been putting them out lately...

The most traumatizing images are yet to come. As the fetid water recedes in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, decomposing bodies will turn up in the streets and homes. They will appear on our screens, pushing a nation beyond what once was considered appropriate news coverage. Last week, viewers were shocked to see an elderly woman dead in a wheelchair, a blanket draped over her, pushed against the...