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TOKYO (AFP) — Three of Japan's leading newspapers said Monday they would cooperate in their online productions and distribution, joining hands to maintain clout in an industry under threat from the Internet. The tie-up involves The Yomiuri Shimbun, which is considered the world's top-selling newspaper, along with its liberal arch-rival The Asahi Shimbun and the Nikkei business daily. The three...

Kathmandu, Oct. 2 (PTI): Nepal's largest newspaper office was attacked by Maoist supporters who destroyed properties and disrupted the publication of two leading dailies here. A trade union affiliated to the Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist) disrupted the printing of two leading dailies, English edition of The Kathmandu Post and Nepali-language newspaper Kantipur and vandalised the media house...

New Delhi, Oct. 2 (PTI): A city court on Monday remanded a private news channel reporter, arrested in connection with an allegedly fake sting operation against a school teacher, to 14 days judicial custody. Additional Chief Metropolitan Magistrate (ACMM) Alok Aggarwal remanded Live India reporter Prakash Singh to judicial custody till October 14, after the Crime Branch submitted that the case was...

SALT LAKE CITY: A coalition of media organizations, including The Associated Press, filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court on Monday seeking to halt a federal investigation into the Crandall Canyon mine disaster until a judge can decide whether the proceedings should be public. The U.S. Labor Department has refused to allow the public to attend interviews during the government's investigation of...

When Arianna Huffington announced plans two-and-a-half years ago to publish a blog, she was greeted with derision by many of the vocation’s purists. The archetypal blogger, after all, was supposed to be a solitary outsider who worked from home – preferably in pyjamas – railing against the arrogance and excesses of the so-called mainstream media. Ms Huffington, on the other hand, was a multi...

(FLIP/IFEX) - On 27 September 2007, a crew of journalists from the television news programme Caracol Noticias was assaulted by two people as they were investigating a case of alleged fraud in the sale of homes for low-income families. The journalists were pelted with stones and threatened with a blunt weapon. The incident took place in the capital city, Bogotá. Amparo Bernal, a victim of the fraud...

LONDON, Oct. 1 — The Financial Times, preparing for a fierce battle with The Wall Street Journal over business readers and online advertising revenue, will give casual readers free access to its Web site this month, according to executives at The Financial Times. The Web site of the London-based business newspaper, which currently charges for much of its content online, as of mid-October will...

Reporters Without Borders condemns a month-old wave of press freedom violations in Honduras including a shooting attack on TV journalist Geovanny García on 7 September, threats against newspaper reporter Martín Ramírez after he wrote about organised crime, and lawsuits by the head of the state telecommunications company Hondutel on 28 September against six journalists who repeated corruption...

Reporters Without Borders calls for the release of reporter Ahmed Aadan Dhere, who was arrested four days ago in the city of Berbera, in the east of the northern breakaway state of Somaliland, and has been held ever since at Berbera police headquarters. Dhere is the correspondent of Haatuf, a privately-owned daily based in the Somaliland capital of Hargeisa. “The Somaliland authorities have a...

Reporters Without Borders urged President Pervez Musharraf to react firmly after at least 30 journalists were wounded by police trying to stop them covering a crackdown on demonstrations in Islamabad and Peshawar by lawyers opposing the president’s candidacy at upcoming elections. Police set about the lawyers and journalists with clubs and threw stones at them in Islamabad on 29 September. Twenty...