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LOS ANGELES: A local news Web site's editor who hired two reporters in India to cover suburban Pasadena said he's been so overwhelmed by handling reaction to his plan that he had to postpone publication of their first stories. James Macpherson said he hasn't found the time he hoped to have to train one of his new staffers to cover Monday night's City Council meeting, which is shown live on the Web...

After being accused by Radar magazine of stealing an article, the Chilean magazine Cosas said it had been hoodwinked by a reporter and had withdrawn the issue from newsstands. Radar’s March/April issue cover article, “Toxic Bachelors,” depicted celebrities as cads; an article in the April issue of Cosas, “Solteros Tóxicos,” featured the same celebrities behaving boorishly and included what...

A journalist and a media worker were shot dead Sunday in a renewal of clashes between Fatah and Hamas in the Gaza Strip. Gunmen wearing presidential guard uniforms stopped a taxi carrying Suleiman Abdul-Rahim al-Ashi, 25, an economics editor for the Hamas-affiliated daily Filistin ( Palestine), and Mohammad Matar Abdo, 25, a manager responsible for distribution and civic relations, Editor-in-Chief...

LOS ANGELES: A local news Web site’s editor who hired two reporters in India to cover suburban Pasadena said he’s been so overwhelmed by handling reaction to his plan that he had to postpone publication of their first stories. James Macpherson said he hasn’t found the time he hoped to have to train one of his new staffers to cover Monday night’s City Council meeting, which is shown live on the Web...

Infosys BPO (formerly Progeon) and media company TV18 have entered into a strategic alliance to launch Source18, a media process outsourcing company that will offer a range of services to media and entertainment companies globally. Among its first few clients is National Geographic International (NGCI). The new firm will re-purpose current as well as archival content for the mobile platform. This...

Chennai, May 13: The Maran ~ Karunanidhi family divide is not the only thing that is out in the open in Tamil Nadu following the Madurai incident. The media too is a much divided house over whether the Wednesday attack on Dinakaran is to be seen as an attack on Press freedom. Refusing to be quoted openly most working journalists, including office-bearers and members of various media associations...

Here's a silver lining in last month's avalanche of news coverage of Don Imus: The disc jockey's racist and sexist remarks inspired at least one Sunday morning talk show to invite women and people of color to discuss Imus' comments. Seeing nonwhite men on the Sunday shows is as rare as seeing them on the floor of the U.S. Senate. According to a study to be released Monday by the liberal media...

Chennai, May. 12 (PTI): Over 100 journalists and newspaper employees courted arrest here today while attempting to defy the prohibitory orders to take out a rally from Dinakaran office here, seeking the arrest of the "real culprits" behind the violence at the Tamil daily's office in Madurai on May 9. The arrested included R Rangaraj, President, Madras Reporters Guild, Babu Jayakumar, President...

DHAKA, Bangladesh: Bangladeshi authorities have released a journalist, detained hours earlier, who had written about alleged human rights abuses by the country's security forces, his wife said Saturday. Tasneem Khalil, a journalist at Dhaka's Daily Star newspaper, was picked up early Friday from his residence in the capital by four men in plain clothes. Khalil was released later Friday after being...

BAGHDAD – In a polarized Iraq, radio host Suhad Rabia did everything she could to stop her listeners from figuring out whether she was Shiite or Sunni. When callers used abusive language to speak of ethnic or religious groups other than their own, she promptly took them off the air. When they expressed extremist sectarian sentiments, she reminded listeners that the station did not share their...