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All eyes in the media next week will be turning toward The Guardian - and you haven't always been able to say that in recent years. All the paper's rivals have been watching like hawks and sharpening their talons in case its imminent Berliner format enjoys the benefit of the new and starts to claw back sales from The Times and The Independent. Advertisers who are awake will want to be present in...

Every day -- sometimes every hour -- brings dramatic change and unimaginable repercussions as television follows the Hurricane Katrina fallout. Much in the same manner of Sept. 11 coverage, it has become one of those events where history is televised and it's nearly impossible to look away. And because television is this nation's shared experience and remains the most powerful medium on the planet...

A United Nations Development Program report recently said that Yemen is "infested with corruption" throughout all sectors including corruption monitoring agencies, and the Yemeni government lacks an effective system of exposing and checking corruption. Rampant corruption is a logical consequence of the concentration of power in Yemen: Ali Abdullah Saleh is the president, the head of the military...

A French media watchdog has said information provided by Internet giant Yahoo Inc helped Chinese authorities convict and jail a writer who had penned an email about press restrictions in his country. The text of the verdict in the case of journalist Shi Tao - sentenced in April to 10 years in prison for "divulging state secrets abroad" - shows that Yahoo! Holdings (Hong Kong) Ltd provided China’s...

It is not only the shocking incompetence of the US authorities in dealing with the disastrous aftermath of Hurricane Katrina that has surprised people in India. What is no less disturbing is the complete collapse of law and order over vast areas in America's Gulf Coast region. The contrast between what happens in India during such a time of trouble is too stark to be missed. In America, the...

Applications are invited for the annual CBA awards for Television and Radio programmes. Applications can be team or individual entries except for the Journalist of the Year and Elizabeth R Awards and all programmes or projects should have been shown or completed between January and October 2005. Completed forms should be received at the CBA Secretariat by October 15, 2005. Details should be...

A new NGO plans to provide its experienced journalism trainers to projects in emerging democracies around the world. Based in Canada, the Media and Democracy Group is inviting other organizations to submit proposals for cooperation. The group’s plan is to tap its network of trainers for programs that can help foster better, more reliable journalism in places where it is needed most. According to a...

WASHINGTON (AFP) - In the emotional aftermath of Hurricane Katrina, US television's often deferential treatment of government officials has been replaced by fiercely combative interviews and scathing commentary. As the scale of carnage became clear and the government was seen as tardy in its response, TV news anchors and reporters dropped their dispassionate reserve in favour of stinging comments...

A new Internet boom is emerging with the growing popularity of syndicated content in the form of Web logs, commercial newsfeeds and podcasts, audio broadcasts that are simple to record and can be downloaded onto MP3players such as iPods or other devices. FeedBurner, a Chicago-based technology startup, is poised to help the writers, publishers and broadcasters who create this content capitalize on...

Hurricanes and floods are ‘natural’ calamities only up to a point. New Orleans has been devastated by both, working together as never before in the generally cursed Gulf Coast of the United States of America. The aftermath of Hurricane Katrina was not only the breach of the Mississippi levees, unleashing the waters for two days, killing several thousands and rendering many more stranded, homeless...