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Washington, June 30, 2005–Restrictive regimes around the world came out ahead. Many were already taking a cue from a U.S. case involving the leak of a CIA officer's name when the Supreme Court announced this week that it would not hear an appeal by two journalists. The reporters, Matthew Cooper of Time magazine and Judith Miller of The New York Times, face 18-month jail terms for not revealing...

Union Information and Broadcasting Minister S Jaipal Reddy said on Wednesday that a national workshop would be held in New Delhi on July 5 to evolve a consensus on the issue of ban on scenes showing the use of cigarettes and other tobacco products in cinema and TV serials. Reddy, who was here to release the compact discs (CDs) and audio cassettes on works of M S Subbulakshmi, Alathur Brothers and...

In addition to the warfare that is taking place between Bennett, Coleman and Company and Mid-Day Multimedia in the editorials of both the papers, Mid-Day has filed a complaint with Audit Bureau of Circulation (ABC) against the story that was carried in TOI on June 28, 2005, headlined ‘Small is big’. ABC officials are looking into the matter. The complaint letter, addressed to ABC secretariat...

TWO-THIRDS OF CONSUMER MAGAZINE WEB sites run ads from marketers that don't also advertise in the print editions, according to a recent study by magazine publishing group International Federation of the Periodical Press. The report, based on an April survey of 71 consumer magazine Web sites worldwide, found that 66 percent of such sites report that they have Web-only advertisers--up from 53...

The Japanese are spending more time scanning the Internet than reading newspapers as their way to learn news, a survey showed Wednesday. The people here took an average of 37 minutes a day surfing on the Web, up five minutes from the previous year, while the time spent on newspapers was two minutes lower to 31 minutes, according the annual survey in March by the National Institute of Information...

Tokyo -- Every year the Dutch-based non-profit organization World Press Photo sifts through thousands of news photographs from around the world in search of images that "represent an event, situation or issue of great journalistic importance and demonstrate an outstanding level of visual perception and creativity." The resulting awards and accompanying exhibition have been running since 1955. This...

Asia News Network, an alliance of 14 leading Asian newspapers, is now open for admission of associate members, according to an agreement signed in Beijing last week. ANN has also named Zhu Ling, editor-in-chief of China Daily, as the new chairman succeeding Shigefumi Takasuka of Japan's Daily Yomiuri. Pana Janviroj, editor of The Nation, has also been named Executive Director of ANN whose...

The editor of Eastern Eye newspaper, Amar Singh, is leaving the paper for a position at London’s Evening Standard, AIM has learnt. The recently married 26 year old gave in his notice to senior management earlier this week after returning from his honeymoon. Staff at Ethnic Media Group (EMG), which owns Eastern Eye, were told earlier today. Rumours of the move had been circulating for weeks and it...

Reporters Without Borders denounces the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit decision, on 28 June 2005, to uphold civil contempt of court findings against four journalists who refuse to reveal their sources for stories about former nuclear scientist Wen Ho Lee. « This is the second ruling of this kind in two days" the worldwide press freedom organization said, referring to...

MUMBAI: In less than a month, Mumbai Mirror, India's first, quality morning compact newspaper, has notched sales of over 1.5 lakh copies a day. This includes both booked subscription copies (delivered by vendors at homes), and steadily-rising newsstand sales. This makes it the No 1 compact in Mumbai (Mid-Day, a tabloid, has seen edition-sales drop to 1.24 lakh copies, from its earlier high of 1.4...