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The growth of user generated content such as blogs and amateur videos could create an "us and them" climate between internet users and traditional media organizations, according to a new report. Management consultancy Accenture's survey of senior executives from sectors including media, advertising and music revealed a relative optimism about digital content revenues. However, the survey also...

The Tampa Tribune will cut about 70 jobs and make other changes to reduce costs amid advertising and circulation declines that have shaken the newspaper industry. Most layoffs will be in circulation, customer service and classified advertising telephone sales, said Denise Palmer, president and publisher of the newspaper owned by Media General, based in Richmond, Va. Fewer than 10 positions will be...

CHICAGO — Subscribers, shareholders and advertisers may be leaving newspapers in droves but real estate moguls, of all people, are sinking part of their fortunes into the business. For better or worse, that gives outside magnates a growing role in newspapers at a time of dramatic change for an industry long dominated by traditional media ownership. The new players aren't all about real estate but...

CHICAGO, April 11 (Reuters) - Kaplan Inc., an educational and career services provider owned by the Washington Post Co. (WPO.N: Quote, Profile, Research), on Wednesday said it acquired an online high school for undisclosed terms. Kaplan said it bought Sagemont Virtual, which has been doing business as the University of Miami Online High School, and Virtual Sage, a developer of online high school...

New York, April 10, 2007—Prosecutors in the Cameroonian capital, Yaoundé, today lodged criminal charges against the director of a private tabloid who has been detained by police since Saturday in connection with a story about an alleged sex scandal, according to local sources and press freedom group Journaliste En Danger. Georges Gilbert Baongla of the weekly Le Dementi, was charged with...

NEW YORK: Her day usually starts around 5:30 a.m. in her Montclair, N.J., home, when she consults her Treo to check news from Europe and Asia while many neighbors are still sleeping. After a few quick calls to foreign news bureaus, she heads off to catch the train. It's unlikely that any of her fellow passengers on NJ Transit's Midtown Direct to New York give her more than a passing glance as they...

April 10 (Bloomberg) -- President Vladimir Putin has already brought Russian newspapers and television to heel. Now he's turning his attention to the Internet. As the Kremlin gears up for the election of Putin's successor next March, Soviet-style controls are being extended to online news after a presidential decree last month set up a new agency to supervise both mass media and the Web. ``It's...

(CPJ/IFEX) - New York, April 9, 2007 - The Committee to Protect Journalists deplores the criminal charges filed against Yuri Chernogayev, correspondent for the German public broadcaster Deutsche Welle. Tashkent prosecutors charged Chernogayev on March 27 with "working without a license," under Article 190 of Uzbekistan's penal code, according to international press reports. Deutsche Welle reporter...

The Committee to Protect Journalists has called on the United States to release Bilal Hussein, an Iraqi photojournalist for The Associated Press, who has been held in a U.S. prison in Iraq for a year without charge. Hussein, a Pulitzer Prize winner, was taken by U.S. forces on April 12 in the western city of Ramadi, the capital of Iraq’s Anbar province, and held in a U.S. prison in Iraq for...

NEW YORK: Her day usually starts around 5:30 a.m. in her Montclair, N.J., home, when she consults her Treo to check news from Europe and Asia while many neighbors are still sleeping. After a few quick calls to foreign news bureaus, she heads off to catch the train. It's unlikely that any of her fellow passengers on NJ Transit's Midtown Direct to New York give her more than a passing glance as they...