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Mumbai: Picture this: Star filmmaker Karan Johar interviews each and every celebrity in Bollywood. Actors Saif Ali Khan and Rani Mukherji speak to camera on their roles in Tara Rum Pum. Eklavya’s A-list star cast talks about Making Eklavya to each other. And Aamir Khan answers questions at a press conference asked to him not by a journalist but by the host of the evening. So, promotions are on in...

Hoffman Media LLC and Hearst Magazines have partnered to re-publish Victoria magazine, which ceased publication in 2003. The Birmingham-based Hoffman will operate the magazine, as well as additional media products and events under the Victoria brand, and will provide all editorial, production, distribution and advertising services. Hearst, a division of Hearst Corp., will provide trademark...

Yelena Tregubova, a former Kremlin pool reporter and author of several books about Russian political elite, has applied for political asylum in Great Britain, the Ekho Moskvy radio reported on Tuesday quoting Tregubova’s own statement. After the murder of journalist Anna Politkovskaya last year, Tregubova wrote an open letter to Western leaders, including German Chancellor Angela Merkel, in which...

An İstanbul prosecutor has pressed charges against Nokta newsweekly’s editor-in-chief Alper Görmüş for running a story that featured excerpts from a diary that was allegedly authored by former Navy Force Commander retired Admiral Özden Örnek. Görmüş is being indicted at the end of an investigation launched by the prosecutor’s office in İstanbul’s Bakırköy district on an appeal by Özden Örnek...

(RSF/IFEX) - The body of Pov Sam Ath, editor of the newspaper "Samleng Khmer Krom" ("Voice of the Khmers Kroms"), was found in a suitcase on 26 April 2007 in the Pich Nil valley in Kampong Speu province in the south of the country. The autopsy showed that his killer used the 29-year-old journalist's bicycle brake cables to strangle him. Reporters Without Borders called on the government, and...

Blogging, or weblogging, where people post content they generate online, is becoming big business. More than 120 000 new blogs are created each day, according to blog search engine Technorati. There are about 70m blogs worldwide, Technorati estimates, though only a fraction are updated regularly. Most blogs have only a handful of readers. But some, such as Daily Kos and Instapundit, both US...

GamePolitics.com is reporting that U.S. District Judge Paul Huck has dismissed anti-video game crusader Jack Thompson's lawsuit against Gawker Media, the publisher of game blog Kotaku. Thompson had claimed that Kotaku and Gawker Media had failed to honor his requests to remove "threatening" comments from several of their blog posts that were critical of his eagerness to blame video games for the...

New York, April 26, 2007—Authorities in Burkina Faso must fully investigate a death threat against outspoken journalist and free speech activist Karim Sama, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today. Sama received an anonymous e-mail last week warning that he “will be gunned down” over commentary that is critical of the government. Sama, host of two popular reggae programs on Radio Ouaga FM...

New York, April 26, 2007—Guatemalan television journalist Rudy Toledo was shot and wounded, and three other local reporters were attacked Wednesday while covering a mob’s fatal attack on a purported gang member in the northeastern province of Quiché. A group of about 100 people shot and burned an individual believed to be a member of the local gang Mara 18 in the town of San Andrés Sajcabajá, 62...

BANGALORE, India (AFP) - America Online, the Internet arm of media giant Time Warner, said it will expand "aggressively" worldwide after stepping into Asia for the first time with the launch of an India portal. AOL, which has 238 million users in the United States, neighbouring nations and parts of Europe, is seeking to compete with rivals Google and Yahoo! in tapping the billion-strong and...