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(RSF/IFEX) - RSF says it fears the worst after the disappearance of TV Azteca Noroeste reporter Gamaliel López Candanosa and cameraman Gerardo Paredes Pérez on 10 May in Monterrey, in the northeastern state of Nuevo León, and called on the authorities to step up the search for the two journalists. "This brings the number of journalists who have gone missing since 2003 without being found to seven...

The Committee to Protect Journalists condemns the recent arrests of four Iranian student editors of Amirkabir University of Technology in Tehran following the publication of newsletters carrying articles deemed insulting to Islam. The students say they had no involvement in the publications, calling them a fraud designed to disrupt student elections. All of the university's student publications...

Canadian publisher Thomson Corp has agreed to buy Reuters for about £8.7 billion ($17.2 billion), creating the world’s leading provider of news and data for professional markets. Reuters Founders Share Company, which has the power to block a change of ownership at the 156-year-old company, backed the deal but it still needs regulatory clearance and shareholder approval, Thomson and Reuters said in...

The chorus of disapproval for newspapers has become a global trend. These days it is nearly impossible to find a media analyst who actually reads a newspaper or who can see anything other than doom and gloom for the industry. I can present a different perspective. Let's start with circulations, which continue to grow - and not just in India and China. Paid circulation grew globally by 1.9 per cent...

The numbers are stark. Eight months into Katie Couric’s job as the first woman to anchor a network newscast on her own, her “CBS Evening News” has not only settled back into its long-held position of last among the evening news broadcasts, but also regularly falls short of the newscast that Ms. Couric replaced. In the latest week’s ratings, “CBS Evening News” had its worst performance since the...

NEW YORK, May 14 (Reuters) - A U.S. soldier being tried in absentia in Rome for killing an Italian intelligence agent in Iraq said on Monday that he did nothing wrong and blamed the death on an Italian reporter who was rescued by the agent. Washington has refused to hand over Mario Lozano, from the U.S. National Guard in New York, so he is on trial in absentia for killing Nicola Calipari as the...

Beijing - A rise in the percentage of ad spending allocated to Internet and mobile media will intensify pressure on magazine publishers to adapt a fast-changing business landscape or die off, speakers at a key international publishing industry conference said in Beijing on Monday. "The magazine industry faces more and more competition," said John Ross, a consultant with the Boston Consulting Group...

NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- It's media merger mania all over again on Wall Street. With News Corp (Charts, Fortune 500). making an unsolicited $5 billion offer for Dow Jones (Charts), Thomson hoping to buy Reuters in a merger worth $17.5 billion and potential deals in the works to take Clear Channel Communications, Cablevision and Tribune private, it would seem to be a great time for investors to...

(RSF/IFEX) - Reporters Without Borders has condemned a 12 May 2007 attack by members of the MQM (an extremist party that supports President Pervez Musharraf) on the offices of Aaj TV and the "Business Recorder" daily (a member of the same media group) in the southern city of Karachi, in which gunmen opened fire on the building while the station was providing live coverage of the MQM's violent, pro...

(PPF/IFEX) - Aaj TV, a leading television channel in Pakistan, came under gunfire attack for almost six hours on 12 May 2007 during clashes between government supporters and opposition activists that took the lives of 36 persons in Karachi, the country's largest city. The attackers also set ablaze vehicles in the parking lot of the television network. Elsewhere in the city, a number of journalists...