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A publisher of nude photos is calling Google a massive infringer of copyright as part of a lawsuit. Norman Zada is CEO of Perfect 10, which publishes a print magazine and a subscription-only Web site showing nude photos of models under exclusive contracts. On Wednesday, his lawyers asked a U.S. District Court in Los Angeles to order Google to stop showing images of Perfect 10 models. Zada sued...

NEW DELHI, August 26: The fifth OURMedia conference will be held from December 5 to 9, 2005 in Bangalore. The conference will cover a range of topics related to fostering more democracy and participation though the media. The OURMedia 5 Conference "Democracy and the Media" is aimed at building strategies and collaborations among researchers, non-governmental organisations, practitioners, artists...

Public life has sped up dramatically over the past 10 years or so. Politicians, Hollywood, corporate chieftains, and other newsmakers all have had to learn how to respond to news instantly – as it’s being made. Call it "The CNN Effect," a phrase that entered news jargon in the 1990s when the phenomenon jelled, thanks to the instant flood of real-time images of suffering and conflict transmitted...

As journalists continue to grapple with increasing public concern over longstanding reporting practices and growing skepticism about media credibility, the rise of Weblogs is also forcing them to address a host of new questions and pressures resulting from the proliferation of this new media channel. According to the most recent findings of the 11th Annual Euro RSCG Magnet Survey of the Media...

The World Association of Newspapers has been studying the format change phenomenon, and will present the results at the World Editor & Marketeer Conference, to be held in Athens, Greece, on 17 and 18 November next. The study, part of the WAN Shaping the Future of the Newspaper project, examines the drivers, highlights the opportunities and determines the risk of format change. The SFN session...

AOL News has quietly and quickly sprinted into a leading news search engine, joining Yahoo News, Google News and Topix.net as a primary destination for online news. When America Online launched of its new AOL.com portal back on June 21, the relaunch of AOL News went largely unnoticed. However, Nielsen//NetRatings has just disclosed its monthly data for July 2005 and it turns out that AOL News has...

LUCKNOW: Do Lucknow journalists deserve the repeated knocking which they keep getting every now and then from the powers-that-be? A straight-forward and honest answer perhaps is yes. If they bite the bait, somebody will certainly pull the line. Journalism in the state capital stands out as the only private sector job which promises allotment of a government house. The estate department of the...

NEW DELHI, August 24: The European Journalism Centre (EJC) will be organising a special information visit to India for journalists from the EU 25 Member States. According to EJC, Europe’s view of India has changed considerably over the last years from a focus on the exotic to the recognition of India as a serious global player and economic powerhouse. The EU remains India’s most important trading...

NEW DELHI, August 24: The International Federation of Environmental Journalists (IFEJ) will hold its annual congress in New Delhi on November 21-24, 2005 in collaboration with the Vatavaran annual film festival, organised by the Centre for Media Studies (CMS) here. This year the film festival is for all Asia (not South Asia alone), though the competing films will be exclusively Indian. The theme...

NEW DELHI, August 24: Advertising expenditures for newspapers and their websites aggregated $12.2 billion for the second quarter of 2005, a 2.8 percent year-over-year increase, according to preliminary estimates from the Newspaper Association of America (NAA). Spending for print ads in newspapers totalled $11.7 billion, up 1.9 per cent versus the same period a year earlier, while ad spending...