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In a historic March 1946 speech, Winston Churchill painted the stark image of an "iron curtain" descending across the European continent. On the far side of that Iron Curtain, a closed and repressive system of governance was rapidly taking hold, in which dissent was ruthlessly suppressed, economic life rigidly managed by communist authorities, and media used exclusively as an instrument of the...

Business 2.0, the technology-aware magazine published by Time Inc., periodically reminds readers of the importance of backing up computer files. A 2003 article likened backups to flossing — everyone knows it’s important, but few devote enough thought or energy to it. Last week, Business 2.0 got caught forgetting to floss. On the night of Monday, April 23, the magazine’s editorial system crashed...

Newspapers in Massachusetts and across the nation are seeking new ways to measure readership as the traditional measure, paid circulation, continues to decline. For the six months ended March 31, average daily paid circulation fell 5.2 percent in Massachusetts from the same period a year earlier, and 2.1 percent nationally, according to data reported yesterday by the Audit Bureau of Circulations...

(MEAA/IFEX) - Pushing through radical media ownership changes was just one of many victories for a conservative government in the censorship of the Australian press in 2006-07. Extended ASIO [Australian Security Intelligence Organisation] phone tapping powers, the charging of two journalists for refusing to reveal their sources, and conviction of a whistleblower whose revelations sparked the...

(Globe International/IFEX) - On 3 February 2007, an appeals court reaffirmed the ruling delivered by a court in the village of Kherlen Soum, located in Dornod Aimag (province), convicting "Dornod" newspaper's editor-in-chief, B. Tuya, of defamation, pursuant to a complaint filed by Miss Mongolia 1994, G. Tuul. In "Dornod" newspaper's 10 November 2006 issue, an article entitled "Women-trafficking...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. newspaper circulation fell 2.1 percent as of the end of March, according to data released on Monday, illustrating the migration of readers to the Internet and publishers' efforts to trim less valuable discount subscriptions. The decline reflects an ongoing movement of readers from paid print editions to mostly free online papers, but experts said it also shows an effort...

The Indian Paparazzi has come of age. Just when we were thinking that Abhi-Ash saga was behind us, it turned out that there was more to follow! Thanks to an enthusiastic photographer getting roughed up by the Big B’s security personnel.– the actor first apologized and then lashed out through the media, at the media for what he called nauseating interest in a private affair. This hungama was a...

Palestinian Authority Prime Minister Ismail Haniyeh warned the abductors of BBC journalist Alan Johnston that there would be serious consequences if the reporter came to harm, Israel Radio reported on Wednesday morning. Palestinian security forces know the identity of the kidnappers of the British reporter, but are not going to use force to win his release, a Palestinian security chief said in an...

It used to be that news-media outlets competed for the best stories or the most compelling photographs. Nowadays, though, some of the most furious competition in the news business is over the best Internet search words for a big story. With the Web assuming an increasingly vital role for print and television news outlets, and online competition intensifying, more outlets are turning to search...

April 30 (Bloomberg) -- U.S. newspaper circulation fell 2.1 percent in the six months through March as the Los Angeles Times and Washington Post lost readers, the Newspaper Association of America said. Circulation at 745 daily newspapers was 45 million, down from 45.9 million in the same period a year earlier, the association said today in a statement, citing data from the Audit Bureau of...