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Gannett's USA Today and ABC News will share stories and resources for the 2008 elections. USA Today will give ABCNEWS.com political stories and blog updates for its Website. ABC will give USA Today election coverage video for its Website. The two will also collaborate on political stories. Election coverage pages on both media outlets' Websites will also be co-branded, the companies said in a...

LAHORE, June 11: The South Asian Media Commission (SAMC) has raised an alarm at death threats to Farida Nekzad, vice-president of South Asia Media Commission and a senior Afghan journalist, only days after the killing of two women media-persons. “This is very disturbing that after the killing of two Afghan women journalists in the past two weeks, some unknown people are sending out death threats...

KHANEWAL, June 11: Journalists and lawyers on Monday took out a joint protest procession against registration of a false case against six journalists of Makhdoompur Pahoran Town and torture on them at Kohna police station. The procession, participated in by a large number of journalists from all four tehsils of the district and office bearers of District Bar Association (DBA), Khanewal, started...

NEW YORK - On a winter day when bomb blasts at an Iraqi university killed dozens and the United Nations estimated that 34,000 civilians in Iraq had died in 2006, MSNBC spent nearly nine minutes on the stories during the 1 p.m. hour. A CNN correspondent in Iraq did a three-minute report about the bombings. Neither story merited a mention on Fox News Channel that hour. That wasn't unusual. Fox spent...

Ethiopia's High Court today convicted four editors and three publishers of now-defunct weeklies of anti-state charges linked to their coverage of the government’s handling of disputed parliamentary elections in 2005, according to local journalists. Two of the editors were convicted of charges carrying life imprisonment or death. The journalists were arrested after a massive government crackdown on...

A jailed Chinese reporter accused of leaking state secrets has joined a U.S. lawsuit claiming Yahoo Inc. helped the Chinese government convict dissidents, his mother said Sunday. Shi Tao, who was sentenced in 2005 to 10 years in prison, is seeking compensation from the Sunnyvale, California-based Internet company, claiming Yahoo Hong Kong and Yahoo China provided information to the Chinese...

TASHKENT. June 11 (Interfax) - Criminal charges have been dropped in Uzbekistan against journalists cooperating with Deutsche Welle radio, a source at the Tashkent city prosecutor's office told Interfax on Monday. Nadezhda Bushuyeva, Yury Chernogayev, Saiera Ruzykulova and Obid Shabanov who had worked for Deutsche Welle without accreditation were charged with large-scale tax evasion and unlicensed...

NEW YORK "BlackBerry" is in, and "widower" is out. "Hip-hop" finally makes the grade and so does "boogie." It's the 2007 edition of the AP Stylebook and Briefing on Media Law, now available in both print and online versions. Norm Goldstein, editor of the 2007 version, says in a release that emphasis this year rests on the great functionality offered by subscription-based online access. "The online...

George Bonavia, a well-known broadcaster among migrants in Canada, passed away on Saturday, aged 87. A former sub-editor of the Maltese daily Il-Berqa, he emigrated in 1948 and between 1961 and 1973 produced a magazine programme on cable radio about migrants in Canada. Up to 1965 he also wrote a regular column on Maltese migrants in Il-Berqa. Soon after emigrating, Mr Bonavia set up the first...

GAZA CITY: The Palestinian journalists’ union yesterday slammed militants for using a jeep that allegedly had press insignia on it during a cross-border raid into Israel. In the first such operation in nearly a year, Gaza-based militants drove a jeep to the border fence between the coastal strip and Israel, breached it and attacked an army post on the other side. The post was unmanned at the time...