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If the words "print" and "media" conjure up images of plummeting profits, shrinking readership and editors tearing their hair out as they attempt to staunch the exodus to the online universe, you clearly aren't thinking of India. As the country celebrates the 60th anniversary of its independence from Britain, newspapers are flourishing, with growth projections that would impress even the savviest...

Afghan officials banned journalists Sunday from shooting photos and video or conducting interviews near the site where talks on the fate of 21 South Korean hostages are being held — new restrictions a day after two Taliban leaders held a news conference there, the Associated Press (AP) has reported. Taliban representative Mullah Bashir (left) addresses media representatives as Mullah Nasrullah...

The British Ministry of Defence is cracking down on its troops' ability to communicate with the public, with new guidelines barring them from a host of activities, including blogging. Soldiers, sailors and airforce personnel will not be able to blog, take part in surveys, speak in public, post on bulletin boards, play in multi-player computer games or send text messages or photographs without the...

Senior Zee television reporter Shobana Singh died after being washed away by the strong currents of water in the Shatru nallah, about 19 km from Koksar on NH-21, in Lahaul and Spiti district of Himachal Pradesh Saturday evening. Police reports from Keylong said the body of the TV reporter was recovered about 10 metres below the highway in the nallah. The body was buried under a heap of mud and...

NEW YORK Since Facebook opened its site to developers in May, it has been flooded with mini-programs that let users throw virtual food at one another, post movie reviews and share YouTube videos. The influx of applications, now up to over 2,800, is leading to the creation of ad networks designed to let developers profit from their work and help advertisers reach Facebook's growing user base...

A Chinese reporter who fabricated a TV news saying that Beijing dumpling makers used cardboard as a filling, was Sunday sentenced to one year behind bars with a fine of 1,000 yuan for the crime of "infringing commodity reputation". The official Xinhua news agency said the journalist, Zi Beijia, was convicted after an open court hearing of "infringing the reputation of commodities". He was also...

LONDON: Mike Soutar refuses to say who or what will be featured on the cover of Short List, a new men's magazine he is introducing next month in Britain, but one thing seems certain: If it is a female model, she will wear at least a bit of clothing. "No nudity, no profanity," said Soutar, a former top executive at IPC, a British magazine unit of Time Warner, who now heads a group of investors...

Two prominent Somali radio journalists were killed in Mogadishu on Saturday, the first by gunmen in the morning and the second, the radio station's co-owner, in an explosion hours later as he returned from the reporter's funeral, according to news reports. The killings targeted Horn Afrik radio, which has been criticised by the Ethiopian-backed Somali government as well as hardline members of an...

Bangladeshi investigative journalist Tasneem Khalil has fled the country with his family for security reasons, Reporters sans Frontières (RSF) has reported. They had previously spent a month in hiding after he was arrested and tortured in May. Khalil, 26, is a journalist for the Dhaka-based Daily Star newspaper who conducts research for Human Rights Watch (HRW). According to his wife, four men in...

Palestinian cameraman Imad Ghanem who was badly injured in gunfire by Israeli soldiers in the Gaza Strip last month is still waiting to be allowed to leave Gaza and go to Egypt to be fitted with artificial legs. One month after asking Israeli defence minister Ehud Barak to investigate the circumstances in which Israeli soldiers fired on Ghanem on July 5 in the Gaza Strip, Reporters sans Frontières...