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Several reporters and their family members have sued Hewlett-Packard Co and some of its officers alleging the technology giant violated their privacy in a hunt for the source of boardroom leaks. The five lawsuits brought by Rachel Konrad, Dawn Kawamoto, Stephen Shankland, Thomas Shankland and Thomas Krazit seek unspecified damages, Reuters reported. Former Hewlett-Packard Co. Chairwoman Patricia...

The World Association of Newspapers (WAN) and the Breakfast Serials publishing company are offering newspapers the opportunity to commemorate International Literacy Day on September 8 by publishing a free serialised story to encourage reading in the home. The 17-part story of the Chinese fable, "The Monkey King," is being made available to newspapers in 800-word segments with illustrations and an...

KATHMANDU (Reuters) - A group of leading editors in Nepal have accused Maoists, who are now part of the interim government, of attacking press freedom through a "sinister pattern of intimidation and threats". Ten editors of leading newspapers, magazines and a television station said that Maoist unions, demanding better conditions for workers, had even entered newspaper offices to physically...

SACRAMENTO -- Amid concern over the frenzy of entertainment blogs and tabloids competing for inside information on Paris Hilton's days in jail and Mel Gibson's tirade during a drunk-driving arrest, state lawmakers have taken steps to clamp down on some forms of checkbook journalism. A bill wending its way through the Legislature would make it a crime for law enforcement or court employees to...

Two Moroccan journalists who published a secret government document about terrorist threats against Morocco have been handed down prison sentences. Abderrahim Ariri, publisher of the Moroccan weekly Al-Watan Al An, and Mustafa Hormatallah, a journalist for the paper, were convicted Wednesday by a criminal court in Casablanca of “concealing items derived from a crime” under article 571 of the...

A group of Shiv Sena activists yesterday ransacked the Mumbai office of weekly Outlook to protest an article in the magazine that featured party chief Bal Thackeray in a list of "villains". The activists barged into the office located in Raheja Chambers in the business district of Nariman Point in the afternoon and asked for the editor. They started ransacking the office on being told that no...

Internet users in the United States (US) are spending nearly half their online time visiting content, a 37 per cent increase in share of time from four years ago. Katrina damages. Quality content sites see a consistent pattern -- major news drives traffic spikes, but traffic remains consistently higher even after the event. Major news events such as Hurricane Katrina (above) and high profile...

The people who run journalism and mass communication (JMC) schools in the United States (US) are overwhelmingly white, and two-thirds of them are male — even though about two-thirds of the students today are female. Those findings come from a new survey of administrators by Thomas Kunkel, dean of the Philip Merrill College of Journalism at the University of Maryland. Kunkel is the new president of...

The people who run journalism and mass communication (JMC) schools in the United States (US) are overwhelmingly white, and two-thirds of them are male — even though about two-thirds of the students today are female. Those findings come from a new survey of administrators by Thomas Kunkel, dean of the Philip Merrill College of Journalism at the University of Maryland. Kunkel is the new president of...

NEW YORK, August 15, 2007— The Committee to Protect Journalists calls on the Cambodian government to launch an independent investigation into the recent arson attack on the home of Phan Phat, a journalist with the local Khmer language newspaper Chbas Kar. According to local press freedom groups and news reports, Phat’s wooden house was set ablaze by unknown assailants at around 4 a.m. on August 10...