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The Iraqi Ministry of Interior has launched investigations into cases of 48 media personnel who were either killed or subjected to acts of violence, according to the director of the ministry's National Command Centre, Deutsche Presse-Agentur (DPA) has reported. Some details: "Investigations have been launched following the establishment of a partnership with the Journalistic Freedoms Observatory...

Another hit and run accident took place in Mumbai on Sunday morning, CNN-IBN has reported. The mishap involved two television journalists. One of them was seriously injured. The details: Shailendra Mohan and Dharmendra Tiwari, two journalists from the news channel NDTV, had stopped their car near the Kherwadi junction of the western express highway around 0500 hrs. They were shooting for a story...

A journalist working with a private television channel was on Saturday stabbed by unidentified persons and robbed him of his wallet and mobile phone in south Delhi, the Press Trust of India (PTI) has reported quoting police sources. Sourabh Mishra, working as a sports journalist with Zee News, was attacked by three unidentified persons who came in an autorickshaw, stabbed him and took his wallet...

The News Broadcasters Association (NBA) has set up a News Broadcasting Standards Disputes Redressal Authority as a measure of self-regulation. The nine-member authority will be headed by the former Chief Justice, JS Verma. Four of the other members, the Hindu reported, will be editors from different news channels and the remaining four from a category titled 'eminent persons' drawn from different...

The Union government has approved 30 per cent interim relief to journalists and non-journalists employees of the newspaper industry. The decision was taken Friday at a Cabinet meeting presided by Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. "Cabinet has approved 30 per cent interim relief to the journalists and non-journalists employees of newspaper industry under the Wage Boards," Union Minister for...

The Russian prosecutor-general's office has completed its investigation into the murder of investigative journalist Anna Politkovskaya and sent the case to court, Interfax news agency reported Thursday. It was not immediately clear Thursday which court will hear the case. Politkovskaya, an award-winning reporter for the Novaya Gazeta, was one of the strongest critics in the Russian media of the...

The New York Sun, a newspaper founded as an alternative to the New York Times, was shut down on Tuesday for its failure to raise enough capital. Founder Seth Lipsky was reported saying that a search for new financial supporters had failed, although the initial backers were willing to pay extra if partners could be found. Trying to raise capital had been extremely difficult for them, and it led to...

News articles often fail to report pharmaceutical company funding and frequently refer to medications by their brand names, both potential sources of bias, according to a new study of news media coverage of medical studies New articles represent an important source of medical information for many patients, and even some physicians, says the study, which has been published in the October 1 issue of...

The Washington Post Co has purchased Foreign Policy magazine from a Washington think-tank for an undisclosed sum. The bimonthly glossy has a circulation of 100,000 and is published by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. " Foreign Policy is a terrific magazine, and I'm pleased it will become a part of our company," said Donald E Graham, Post Co chairman. " Foreign Policy furthers our...

A journalist working with Headlines Today news channel was shot dead in her car near her southwest Delhi home while returning from work in the early hours Tuesday. Soumya Viswanathan, 27, was found dead in her white Maruti Zen car on Nelson Mandela Marg in South Delhi's Vasant Kunj area around 3.30 a.m, police said. Her car was found rammed against the road divider and she was seated in the driver...