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One of the trickiest things for a news organization to do is cover itself. That was the situation some editors at The Wall Street Journal found themselves in last month when they learned that Rupert Murdoch’s News Corporation was making a $5 billion bid for the Journal’s parent, Dow Jones, at least a week before the news broke elsewhere. It was one of the biggest business news events of the year...

May 8 (Bloomberg) -- Dow Jones & Co., whose controlling shareholders rebuffed a $5 billion takeover bid from News Corp. last week, said advertising revenue at the Wall Street Journal fell the most in almost two years last month. Ad sales dropped 12 percent and volume fell 13 percent, dragged down by a 35 percent plunge in computer-technology advertising and a drop of 16 percent in financial ads...

CAIRO -- Journalists from five Arab countries are to launch a media watchdog group in reaction to what they call increased restrictions on press workers in the region, its founders said Tuesday. Twenty reporters from Egypt, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Morocco, and Libya will launch the Cairo-based Free Media Workers Union in June, an initiative supported by Egyptian-American sociologist and human rights...

As opposed to parachute or embedded journalism where there is the solace of jetting out or the sinking into the confines of a green zone, the Kashmiri journalists as inhabitants of the region have to work not only as scribes but also live as the daily victims of the conflict. In a recent incident unidentified gunmen in civvies (probably belonging to the Special Operation group of the security...

PATIALA: Jagjit Singh Dardi, Editor-in-Chief of Chardikala Group of Newspapers on Monday alleged that a Congress leader and his partner in TV Channel Newstime had attacked his office and threatened to eliminate Dardi, Jatinderpal Singh Managing Editor and Raminder Singh Babbal Manager of Chardhikala Newspaper. In a statement issue dhere Monday Dardi said that Labh Singh accompanied by miscreants...

NEW YORK: The Newspaper Association of America released Internet usage data in conjunction with its industry conference held here starting on Sunday. Figures show that an average of 59 million people, or 37% of all active Internet users, visited newspaper Web sites each month during the Q1. During the same period, the overall Internet audience grew 2.7%. “The fact that newspaper Web site audience...

Having read last week's rant by Stefano Hatfield, editor of thelondonpaper, on the afternoon free newspaper market in London, I couldn't help thinking that instead of reminiscing about the Maxwell era, his company might be better served if it spent more time concentrating on the here and now, particularly the failures of its own paper. We at Associated can have no objection to other titles...

Photojournalist Dmitry Chebotayev was killed in a bombing Sunday while on assignment in Iraq, according to news reports and his agency, World Picture News. Chebotayev was traveling with U.S. forces in Diyala province when their vehicle was hit by an improvised explosive device. Six American soldiers were killed and two were wounded, according to the U.S. military. Russian news organizations...

(FNJ/IFEX) - Lokshari Kuwar, editor and publisher of "Morning Bell" daily, was captured and attacked by a group of people on 2 May 2007 in Dhangadi, Kailali, a western district of Nepal. According to Birendra Rawal, president of Press Chautrai Nepal, three "hooligans" - Ganesh Chand, Lalit Kuwar and Prem Kalel - brutally beat Kuwar. He sustained serious wounds to his head and neck; two teeth were...

(FNJ/IFEX) - Yuvraj Adhikary, a local correspondent of Radio Nepal, was attacked by cadres of the Maoist-aligned Young Communist League (YCL) on 2 May 2007 in the Kusumba market of Bardiya, a mid-western district of Nepal. Adhikary had gone to the Kusumba market to collect news about a clash between armed police forces, deployed at the market for border security purposes, and a group of refugees...