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How many people visited Style.com, the online home of Vogue and W magazines, last month? Was it 421,000, or, more optimistically, 497,000? Or was the real number more than three times higher, perhaps 1.8 million? The answer — which may be any, or none, of the above — is a critical one for Condé Nast, which owns the site, and for companies like Ralph Lauren, which pay to advertise there. Condé Nast...

About the same time that Rupert Murdoch was telling shareholders that his beloved News Corp. had become the world's most valuable media conglomerate, the company's worth was in the midst of sinking by $1.53 billion. But Friday's massive stock market sell-off didn't alter Murdoch's message. By the end of Friday trading, News Corp. sported a market capitalization of $67.79 billion, larger than Time...

MADRID, Spain: Spain's top-selling newspaper, El Pais, unveiled a new design on Sunday with greater emphasis on photographs and graphics, a different typeface and the goal of being the world's leading Spanish-language daily. The revamped look is the culmination of a 9-month project to overhaul the center-left newspaper that was founded in 1976, a year after the death of Gen. Francisco Franco. El...

New York, October 19, 2007 — The Committee to Protect Journalists is saddened that ARY One World TV cameraman Muhammad Arif was among the more than 130 people killed in the Thursday bombing in Karachi, according to the official Associated Press of Pakistan. We send our condolences to his wife and six children. Several others were injured in the twin blasts, which took place during a political...

SHIMLA, Oct. 20: The “sting operation” that had raised a fierce political storm in Himachal Pradesh three months ago turned out to be fake! The one-man Garg Inquiry Committee set up on the order of the Himachal High Court has submitted its report giving a clean chit to the then transport and tourism minister Mr GS Bali. The controversy that had provided ammunition to the Opposition, with the...

In 2005, when Silicon Valley entrepreneur Michael Arrington started TechCrunch, his popular blog on Internet startups, he saw it mainly as a chance to indulge his obsession with young technology companies. But it turned out that Arrington had latched onto something big. TechCrunch became the go-to site for the scoop on new Web companies. And, as technophiles flocked to TechCrunch, advertisers...

Reporters Without Borders issued an urgent appeal today to the international community for energetic measures towards the Somali government on behalf of the country’s journalists after yesterday’s murder in Mogadishu of Bashir Nur Gedi, the head of the Shabelle press group. Gedi is the eighth journalist to be slain this year in Somalia and the third leading media owner to be killed by unidentified...

MOGADISHU (Reuters) - Unknown attackers shot dead the acting head of an independent radio station at his home on Friday in the latest attack on a journalist in the Somali capital, the victim's employer said. The killing of Bashir Nur Gedi brings to eight the number of journalists murdered this year in the Horn of Africa country, where reporters routinely face harassment, imprisonment and mortal...

Until recently, there were two types of newspaper website: those that made you pay to read many of the articles (The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal and the Financial Times) and those that didn’t. That is changing. The New York Times recently announced that almost all its online material would now be free. FT.com has just moved to a system of free access for occasional visitors. And Rupert...

(FLIP/IFEX) - On 11 October 2007, a group of students from Santa Marta University, protesting a court ruling against the university's former rector, attacked the offices of the newspaper "Hoy Diario del Magdalena". They stoned the building and wrote denunciatory graffiti on its walls. Later, the editor of the newspaper, Ulilo Acevedo Silva, received a new death threat. The students marched on the...