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WASHINGTON: A record amount of the paper consumed in the U.S. was recycled last year, and an increasing portion of paper and paperboard is being exported to China, the paper industry's trade group said Monday. The statistics released by the American Forest and Paper Association show paper and pulp companies are increasingly supplying a global market for recycled paper products. Exports of paper to...

For newspapers, February was the cruelest month. So far. Revenue from advertising was in striking decline last month, compared with February a year ago, and were generally weaker than analysts had expected. And while there was one piece of good news for the industry — ad spending on newspaper Web sites rose — many industry watchers were wondering whether the February declines were part of a short...

BBC correspondent Alan Johnston began Monday his third week in captivity in the Gaza Strip wven as efforts were stepped up to secure his release. Reporters sans Frontières (RSF) urged leaders attending an Arab League summit on March 28-29 in Saudi Arabia to issue a joint appeal for his release. BBC Middle East Bureau Editor Simon Wilson, right, listens to BBC Gaza correspondent Fayed Abu Shammala...

New York, March 26, 2007—The Committee to Protect Journalists called for the immediate release of Daily Star reporter E.A.M. Asaduzzaman Tipu, who was jailed in the northern Bangladesh district of Nilphamari on Wednesday. The correspondent suffered a severe asthma attack two days after being arrested for his reporting on official mismanagement, the Dhaka-based daily reported. “It seems clear that...

In just six years, Wikipedia has mushroomed into one of the Web's most astonishing successes, with 1.7 million articles in English alone. The downside is that the free encyclopedia has its share of errors and juvenile vandalism, and sometimes the writing is incomprehensibly arcane. To Wikipedia fans, these blemishes are an unavoidable — and relatively small — price to pay for the dazzling breadth...

WASHINGTON -- Here's an inviting and cautionary note from an Old Media geezer to the new-school bloggers, Webheads and YouTubers: Welcome. You're a valuable addition to the presidential landscape. Just don't get too full of yourselves. I am moved to inject this little dose of realism into all of the hoopla that has followed the unmasking of the man who created and placed the hilarious "Big Sister"...

The anti-Hillary Clinton video posted last week on YouTube.com demonstrated the speed and power of the Web as it quickly jumped from the Internet to cable news and network broadcasts such as NBC's Today and CBS Evening News. As a result, the video, which portrayed Clinton as a dictatorial character out of George Orwell's 1984 (and was a takeoff of a famous Apple ad), became one of last week's most...

CAIRO, March 24 — Saudi Arabia has barred entry to a Washington-based Israeli journalist traveling with Secretary General Ban Ki-moon on his current Middle East tour, the United Nations said today. Mr. Ban is going to Riyadh on Tuesday for two days of the summit meeting of the League of Arab States. Orly Azoulay, the Washington bureau chief of Yediot Aharonot, was unable to obtain a visa to Saudi...

Newspaper readership in Canada remained stable in 2006, with more than half of all Canadians picking up a daily newspaper every day, an industry study says. There were 11, 831,600 readers in the top 17 markets last year, a slight increase compared to 11,756,300 in 2005, according to figures released yesterday by industry group Newspaper Audience Databank Inc. While free daily newspapers and online...

(CPJ/IFEX) - New York, March 23, 2007 - The bureau of satellite television Al-Jazeera in the capital Mogadishu was indefinitely shuttered on Thursday following an order from intelligence officials of Somalia's Ethiopian-backed transitional government, according to news reports. The bureau of the Qatar-based broadcaster was "effectively closed" today after the station received a letter from the...