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NEW YORK (Fortune) -- Readers of the The Sun, a British tabloid best known for its bare-breasted Page Three girls, opened their newspapers to see a young woman named Keeley Hazell wearing only green paint. Ms. Hazell is the face - well, not just the face - of the paper's campaign against global warming. When subscribers to the British satellite TV provider BSkyB order new set-top boxes, some...

Aug. 15 (Bloomberg) -- Yahoo! Inc., fighting Google Inc. for local advertisers, added more city-specific Web pages with information on movies, events and neighborhood restaurants. Yahoo Local will have a weekend section to help users in cities from San Francisco to New York find things to do, the Sunnyvale, California-based company said yesterday in an e-mail. The site also lets visitors add...

WASHINGTON: The bad news is India hasn't made the cover of major international publications on its 60th birthday. That may well be the good news too. A decade after the world media celebrated India's 50th Independence anniversary milestone in a blaze of colour, the country isn't a novelty anymore. It is now an ongoing story, a work in progress. In fact, there may have been more India covers in the...

With the government exerting severe repression, surviving as an independent newspaper in Zimbabwe has proven no easy feat, and the signing on 3 August of the Interception of Communications Law is only the latest of challenges. But in a country with an economy in shambles, economic challenges also have taken their toll. “The greatest challenge we face in advertising and marketing is the declining...

Washington - Many in the newspaper business have embraced the Internet warily. For all the promise the Web platform has, it also holds some big pitfalls. Yes, the online world offers potentially broader audiences and the promise of cutting costs by slicing into publishing and circulation expenses. But the free content model on the Web is particularly scary for newspapers. If the content online is...

(IMI/IFEX) - On 13 August 2007, at 10:40 p.m. (local time), two unidentified persons attacked Artem Skoropadskiy, a journalist with "Commercant" newspaper, on the porch of his home. "On the dark porch, two unknown persons punched me in the face. After I kicked one of them in self-defence, they went away," Mr Skoropadskiy told the news agency Noviy Region (New Region). The assailants did not say a...

(CJES/IFEX) - A court of the town of Apatity, in Murmansk region, recently considered the issue of extending the treatment of journalist Larisa Arap in the Apatity psychiatric hospital. Despite the recommendation made by an independent psychiatric commission, which had come to Apatity from Moscow on the initiative of Russian human rights ombudsman Vladimir Lukin, the court ruled that Arap's...

(BIANET/IFEX) - Yakup Önal, of the local newspaper "Sarköy'ün Sesi" ("The Voice of Sarköy") in Sarköy, Tekirdag province, is on trial for allegedly "insulting" the Justice and Development Party (AKP) mayor and two members of the municipal council. The prosecution has demanded 10 years' imprisonment for Önal for insulting Mayor Can Gürsoy and municipal council members Olcay Yücel and Ercan Yücel in...

Newspapers that break up their editorial departments and outsource journalistic work to moneysaving information production factories will only hasten the demise of the traditional press in developed countries, the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has warned. IFJ was responding to plans by New Zealand’s biggest daily newspaper, the New Zealand Herald, to outsource editorial production...

A US federal judge has asked five journalists to identify the government officials who leaked details to them about a scientist under scrutiny for mailed anthrax attacks in 2001. The ruling is a victory for Hatfill, a bioterrorism expert who has argued in a civil suit that the government violated his privacy rights and ruined his chances at a job by unfairly leaking information about the probe...