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SAN FRANCISCO - The Associated Press will intensify its efforts to protect its copyrights on the Web and possibly uncover new sources of revenue by working with a Silicon Valley startup that's trying to help the media gain more control over digital content. Under an agreement to be announced Thursday, the AP will subscribe to a service developed by Attributor Corp. to track how its stories are...

At its World Congress on Thursday, the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) announced the election of Jim Boumelha of the National Union of Great Britain and Ireland as its president. Boumelha and other elected IFJ officials will serve their terms for the next three years. Osvaldo Urriolabeitia of the Federacion Argentina de Trabajadores de Prensa was elected to the post of senior vice...

Television viewers have given the thumbs up to tabloid-like content on news channels by making Rajat Sharma’s India TV the second most popular after Aaj Tak. According to viewership measuring agency TAM’s latest Peoplemeter data, India TV has bagged 17.4 per cent share (up from 8.8 per cent at this time last year) among viewers aged 15 or more in cable and satellite homes in Hindi speaking markets...

The Committee to Protect Journalists today called on Iranian authorities to drop criminal charges against an Iranian-American journalist working for U.S.-backed Radio Farda, to return the journalist’s seized passport, and to allow her to travel freely. On May 15, the Special Security Bureau of the Revolutionary Court Public Prosecutor’s office charged Parnaz Azima with disseminating propaganda...

MOSCOW: Novaya Gazeta, an independent Russian newspaper, officially began sales on Wednesday of a bound collection of articles and commentary by Anna Politkovskaya, the paper's special correspondent who was murdered last year. The book was released as the paper's editors and staff once again demanded an honest investigation into the crime. Politkovskaya, 48, was one of fiercest domestic critics to...

(RSF/IFEX) - Reporters Without Borders is outraged at the two-month prison sentences imposed on two "El Watan" journalists in a libel case on 27 May 2007 and said it was concerned about the verdict that is due to be issued by an Algiers criminal court on 30 May in the case of Arezki Aït-Larbi, the correspondent of several international news media. "Algeria's journalists will always work under the...

New York, May 30, 2007—Blanket censorship imposed last November on private newspapers and radio stations was lifted this week after a six-month state of emergency, imposed in response to deadly unrest in eastern Chad, expired on Saturday, according to officials and local journalists. Three of the leading private newspapers in the capital N’Djamena, including weeklies Notre Temps, Le Temps and L...

Hundreds of journalists from around the world gathered Monday for a congress held in Moscow as part of an effort to promote Russian press freedom and fight impunity enjoyed by the killers of Russian journalists. But with few government officials in attendance, the effort is off to a bad start. By choosing Moscow for its meeting, the Brussels-based International Federation of Journalists wants to...

Reporters Without Borders today condemned constant government harassment of the opposition media, which has led 14 journalists working for two dailies, the Azerbaijani-language Gundelik Azerbaijan and the Russian-language Realny Azerbaijan, to seek political asylum in the past four days after their newspapers were closed last week. The editor of the newspaper Nota Bene has also requested asylum...

NEW YORK: Newspaper online advertising revenue growth is starting to slow, according to the most recent data from the Newspaper Association of America. In Q1, advertising spending for newspaper Web sites increased 22.3% to $750 million compared to the same period last year. In the first quarter of 2006, newspaper online ad revenue advanced 34.9% to $613 million. However, online advertising revenue...