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BAKU, July 25, 2007 (RFE/RL) -- Police in Azerbaijan have arrested an opposition newspaper editor and accused him of soliciting a bribe, RFE/RL's Azerbaijani Service reported. Prosecutors say Musfiq Huseynov, economics editor of the opposition paper "Bizim yol" (Our Way), was arrested after taking $3,500 from a government official in return for not publishing compromising material. "Bizim Yol"...

Television broadcasters have taken on media buying houses over the use of TAM Media’s AdEx to validate telecast of advertisements. Early this month, the India Broadcasting Federation is believed to have raised the issue with agencies to consider the elimination of third-party audit services of AdEx, which monitors the ad telecast schedules for media agencies and advertisers on an ongoing basis...

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Talk might be cheap, but Oprah is not, topping a list of the highest-paid television stars in the United States. Oprah Winfrey, host and supervising producer of "The Oprah Winfrey Show," earns an estimated $260 million a year, according to a list in TV Guide magazine's July 23 issue. Music producer Simon Cowell, the blunt and often contentious British judge of "American...

Jane Cox MacElree, an influential member of the family that has controlled The Wall Street Journal for more than a century, forced back tears as she invoked the memory of a murdered Journal reporter. At a family gathering Monday, the 77-year-old Ms. MacElree cited Daniel Pearl's death at the hands of kidnappers in 2002 in voicing her opposition to a bid by Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. to buy Dow...

MUMBAI: While IOS will be the first measurement initiative in the out-of-home (OOH) space, RAM will compete with Indian Listenership Track (ILT) from MRUC - a quarterly service which uses the day-after-recall (DAR) method. The need for measurement of the two media becomes critical, considering that with phase II of FM Radio licensing, the number of FM stations is set to touch 266 by end-2007. And...

(MISA/IFEX) - The trial of Bright Chibvuri, editor of the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions' "The Worker" magazine, charged with practicing journalism without accreditation under the repressive Access to Information and Protection of Privacy Act (AIPPA), has been postponed to 29 August 2007. Chibvuri was arrested in Plumtree on 3 March 2007, spent two nights in police custody and was released on 5...

Reporters Without Borders today condemned the six-month suspended prison sentence and fine of 5000 zlotys (1,300 euros) which a court in the eastern city of Lublin imposed on Jacek Brzuszkiewicz of Gazeta Wyborcza on 12 July after finding him guilty under article 212 (2) of the criminal code of libelling Maciej Kierek, a judge attached to the Lublin administrative court. “The sentence is out of...

NEW YORK: At Columbia University's Graduate School of Journalism, New Yorker writer Dean Nicholas Lemann is leading an effort to develop a series of real-world, multimedia case studies to teach the next generation of journalism's editors and producers how to lead in a time of change. The cases are emerging from some of the timeliest and most complex stories in today's headlines. They're set in the...

Georgia, Tbilisi / Trend corr.N.Kirtskhalia, К.Zarbaliyeva / Georgia has refused Azerbaijan the delivery of two men suspected of murdering the Azerbaijani journalist, Elmar Huseynov. Elmar Huseynov, Editor-in-Chief of the opposition Monitor journal, was murdered at his doorway on 2 March. According to one version of the investigation, the journalist’s killers have found refuge in Georgia and are...

Data compiled by Nielsen//NetRatings, on behalf of the Newspaper Association of America (NAA), showed that, on average, just under 40 percent of all active Internet users visited newspaper websites during Q2 2007. That amounts to over 59 million people and a 7.7 percent increase on Q2 2006 “As the industry continues to expand its digital portfolio, readers are visiting newspaper Web sites in...