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Not Iraq, where, according to a new report from the Arab Archives Institute, 52 Arab journalists have lost their lives since 2001; not Palestine, where journalists are caught between Israel and the Palestinians and between Fatah and Hamas; nor Lebanon, where reporters have been in the cross-hairs of rival factions and governments. Darfur is a hot-button issue in the newsroom not because of the...

One salvation for newspapers wrestling to make their multiplatform approach to news as profitable as print used to be alone is that their web sites are so popular – 37.6% of US active internet users visited a newspaper site in Q1 -- but new studies show that local TV web sites are increasingly snapping at their heels, and at the end of the day the most important buzz word for advertisers will be...

Tribune Co. disclosed Friday afternoon that its earlier agreement to sell two Connecticut newspapers to Gannett Co. for $73 million has been called off in the wake of an unfavorable arbritrator's ruling regarding Gannett's plan not to honor an existing union contract at one of the papers. Tribune announced in March that it had agreed to sell the Advocate in Stamford and the Greenwich Time to...

Rupert Murdoch faces the most serious challenge yet to his dominance of the British media after Alistair Darling, the trade secretary, called yesterday for a full investigation into News Corp's influence over the way the British public gets its news. In referring BSkyB's share swoop last year on the rival broadcaster ITV to the Competition Commission, Mr Darling opened the way for a full...

(IAPA/IFEX) - MIAMI, Florida (May 25, 2007) - The Inter American Press Association (IAPA) today gave its support to an open call by the news media in Guyana for the government of President Bharrat Jagdeo to reconsider its position and end its discrimination in the placement of official advertising. Electronic and print media in Guyana and the English-speaking Caribbean on May 24 issued a joint...

The Evening Standard, Daily Mail and General Trust’s London evening newspaper, has suffered an 18 per cent drop in circulation amid intensifying competition from London freesheets, thelondonpaper and London Lite. Daily Mail and General Trust (DMGT), publisher of the Daily Mail and Evening Standard, gave warning yesterday that it could not see “an imminent reduction” in competition in London...

(IPI/IFEX) - According to information provided to the International Press Institute (IPI), a number of media organisations and other businesses in Kazakhstan have been closed and their staff ordered by the authorities to remain inside the buildings. At 5 p.m. (local time) in Almaty, Kazakhstan, four individuals from the General Prosecutors Office (GPO), accompanied by six police officers, visited...

May 24, 2007 - According to a Pew Research Center poll released earlier this week, Muslim-Americans are “largely assimilated, happy with their lives, and moderate with respect to many of the issues that have divided Muslims and Westerners around the world.” The poll showed the majority surveyed have close non-Muslim friends, believe in a strong American work ethic and feel there is little conflict...

Hazaribagh, May 23: Believe it or not, some journalists are backing Maoists in the state. At least the police believe so. Arrest of Jahoor Ansari, a dreaded extremist, has turned the suspicion of the force into belief. Ansari disclosed to the police the name of a journalist, who used to help him in several ways — right from collecting levy to providing information related to movement of the police...

Reporters Without Borders welcomes the reappearance of the independent Kabul Weekly newspaper in news stands after an absence of several months due to financial difficulties. The press freedom organisation provided financial support to the weekly, which is edited by Faheem Dashty. "Press freedom in Afghanistan depends on the vitality of its independent newspapers, radio and TV stations and news...