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Yahoo News and the McClatchy Company announced today that they will team up to offer international news coverage from a range of international geographic regions on Yahoo News. The project, to be called "Trusted Voices," will offer in-depth perspectives and coverage from McClatchy foreign correspondents based in select regions, including Iraq, the Middle East, China and Latin America. Yahoo News...

Free expression groups worldwide have joined Afghan journalists in demanding the release of the independent journalist and translator who was kidnapped by the Taliban at the same time as a now-freed Italian journalist. La Repubblica reporter Daniele Mastrogiacomo, his driver, Syed Agha, and his translator, Ajmal Naqshbandi, who is also a journalist, were kidnapped on March 5 by the Taliban in...

New York, March 28, 2007—The Committee to Protect Journalists is alarmed by the criminal prosecution of Viktor Shmakov, editor-in-chief of the opposition newspaper Provintsialnye Vesti (Provincial News) in the Russian republic of Bashkortostan. Prosecutors in the regional capital Ufa, 680 miles (1100 kilometers) east of Moscow, have charged Shmakov with “public calls for the realization of...

CHISINAU (MHM) - On 27 March 2007, as the film crew from ProTV Chisinau focused their cameras on a peaceful opposition party rally in the Moldovan capital, the police moved in. Members of the crew were arrested and held for questioning along with more than a dozen marchers. While this was happening, a crew from DTV, which was filming the arrests, had the tape removed from their camera. Both crews...

OhmyNews introduced the world to "citizen journalism" -- breaking news, investigative reporting, tales of daily life, written by thousands of amateurs all over South Korea. But now the online newspaper finds itself in the throes of change. After having turned a small profit for three years, OhmyNews slid into the red in 2006. It faces growing competition in South Korea, has failed to catch fire...

It's hardly surprising that, as a Statistics Canada study released yesterday reveals, Canadians' level of political engagement is related to their news usage. The more news they consume, the more they are involved "in non-voting political activities such as attending public meetings; searching for information on a political issue; volunteering for a political party; expressing their views by...

So London, the magazine that proudly trumpeted itself as focusing on "shameless luxury", is understood to have folded after two issues. Edited by former Mail on Sunday journalist Christena Appleyard, the magazine launched little more than a week ago with a big-name team, but its owner was inexperienced in publishing. The magazine is preparing to put out a statement tomorrow morning. Its PR company...

(CEMESP/IFEX) - "The Independent" newspaper, which was banned by the government for publishing a sex photo of former presidential affairs minister, Willie Knuckles, has been ordered by the Supreme Court of Liberia to return to "status quo ante." The court's latest ruling is a result of a challenge by "The Independent" through its legal counsel, Attorney-at-Law Syema Syrenius Cephus, protesting the...

The India Today Group has announced a joint venture with Associated Newspapers (ANL), publishers of the Daily Mail of UK, to launch mainline newspapers in India. Aroon Purie, Editor-in-Chief, India Today Group, said in a statement, “We are delighted that our first foray into mainline newspapers is in partnership with one of the leading newspaper publishers of the world -- the prestigious Daily...

Demand for training is overwhelming as midcareer journalists and news executives face the digital revolution, but the news industry response in the US is fractured, says a new survey. The survey, conducted for the John S and James L Knight Foundation , shows training is failing to keep pace with the urgent and significant demands of industry transformation. This is Knight’s second major study of...