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I can't say I saw everything that the TV newscasters pumped out about Katrina, but I viewed enough repeated segments to say with 90 percent confidence that broadcasters covering the New Orleans end of the disaster demurred from mentioning two topics that must have occurred to every sentient viewer: race and class. Nearly every rescued person, temporary resident of the Superdome, looter, or...

The New Orleans Times-Picayune did not publish today, offering only an Internet edition while struggling to find a location to print Louisiana's largest newspaper. One consolation for reporters and editors is that it's not clear how many people would have a chance to read the 260,000-circulation paper. "Things are so bad in the city that there are no ways to get copies of the paper to anyone...

Last night, fearing for their safety, CBS News moved much of its team in New Orleans from their hotel to an overpass on Interstate 10. That's where national correspondent Tracy Smith was standing, preparing for a live segment, when a female police officer approached and handed Smith a pocketknife. "She told Tracy that if she was going to leave that spot, she was going to need it," says CBS...

The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ), the global organisation representing over 500,000 journalists worldwide, today condemned the highhandedness of Punjab police in a midnight action reminiscent of the days of militancy when the police took law into their own hands. On the night of August 28, a police team, reporting directly to inspector general of police (IGP), Sumedh Saini...

In a legal case being watched closely by bloggers, an Internet company has sued the owner of a Web log for comments posted to his site by readers. Traffic-Power.com1 sued Aaron Wall, who maintains a blog on search engine optimization – tactics companies use to get themselves to appear higher in searches at Google, Yahoo and elsewhere – alleging defamation and publication of trade secrets. The suit...

Young journalists in India and Pakistan can enter a competition for the chance to visit CNN’s global headquarters in Atlanta, Georgia, in the United States. Another award will send the best cameraperson to the network’s regional headquarters in Hong Kong. Categories Television: Open to all young journalists working (or freelancing) with television news channels, (including CNN's broadcast...

NEW DELHI, August 31: The Internet gender gap may be fast disappearing, but differences in how men and women use technology still remain wide. Female consumers are catching up with their male counterparts in online media consumption, purchasing behaviour, and device ownership; but gender roles persist: men engage in financial activities, watch more television, and spend more online; women keep in...

NEW DELHI, August 31: It is not enough to flood a city with newspapers. These actually have to trickle into the homes of a city's teeming millions. And keep trickling till eternity. One is told the first thing to happen after the recent downpour of new newspapers in Mumbai was an advertisement churning. No, this is not about newspapers churning out advertisements, but the churning that has been...

CHANDIGARH: "Certain officers run amok." This was how Punjab Chief Minister Capt Amarinder Singh on Monday sought to explain the manner in which the Punjab police picked up Gautam Dheer, a principal correspondent with this website’s newspaper, hours after his report on a complaint against IGP Sumedh Singh Saini to the state human rights commission. Later this evening, Dheer was released on bail...

Over the last 10 years, Telugu daily Prajasakthi has been consciously moulding itself into a ‘comprehensive daily offering’. What started as a weekly offering that took on the British and the Nizam in 1942, was reborn as the party organ of the CPI (M) 25 years ago. Today, it is a publication with eight editions. Going forward, the publications aims to consolidate its presence in Andhra Pradesh...