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US news organisations are under tremendous pressure to find radical new ways to make money as their financial outlooks worsen despite embracing new technology. One way to do it may be to charge Web users for news in a way they cannot avoid -- their Internet access bill, the “State of the News Media 2007” has said. A taxi drives by the New York Times building in Times Square, New York. News outlets...

Industry members and analysts say promotions have softened the decline in Spanish newspaper circulation, which dropped 2 per cent in 2005 and is estimated to have fallen by the same amount last year. Spain is the only market in Europe, other than Ireland, where newspaper sales rose between 1996 and 2005, in Spain's case by 1.3 per cent. Spanish newspapers carry promotions ranging from coupons for...

NEW YORK (AdAge.com) -- Maybe it's no surprise that Google's effort to help small and medium-size advertisers buy offline media such as newspaper space and radio spots appears to be working. What is surprising, however, is that the newspaper and radio folks aren't sounding the least bit spooked by it. In fact, Google may have finally built what years of complaining by media-buying agencies couldn...

As Russian prosecutors continued last week to investigate how Ivan Safronov, the respected defence correspondent of Kommersant newspaper, was found dead in the snow having apparently fallen from his high-rise apartment, it was another Moscow paper that made an apposite observation. "For some reason, it is those journalists who are disliked by the authorities who die in this country," noted the...

March 12, 2007 - Ill and aging, veteran Burmese writer U Win Tin is once again spending his birthday in a prison cell in Insein, Rangoon. Today is his 77th birthday. Journalist U Win Tin has been detained for his political involvement and critical writings about the ruling junta. "They are scared to release him," said Tate Naing, secretary of the Assistant Association for Political Prisoner (Burma...

New York, March 12, 2007—The Committee to Protect Journalists is concerned by reports that police and security services harassed several journalists covering local parliamentary elections on Sunday. Police in the southern city of Samara detained reporter Pavel Sedakov and photographer Artyom Pigarov of the independent business daily Kommersant when the two tried to interview a local leader of the...

The US military has defended the erasing by an American soldier of journalists' footage of the aftermath of a suicide bombing and shooting in Afghanistan last week, the Associated Press (AP) has reported. The military said that publication could have compromised an investigation and led to false public conclusions. An Afghan man cries as he shouts anti-American slogans after a car bomber attacked...

New York, March 12, 2007—The Committee to Protect Journalists today condemned criminal defamation convictions handed down last week by a court in the capital, Bamako, against two journalists for a December 2006 story critical of a government minister. Director Diaby Makoro Camara and Editor Oumar Bouaré of the private monthly Kabako were sentenced to four-month suspended terms, fined 50,000 CFA...

(IFJ/IFEX) - The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) today warned of increased pressure on media in The Gambia after the launching of two recent court cases against journalists at the request of other companies. The first case is one in which a newspaper is being sued for libel by the head of a government company. The second is a misconduct case brought against two media workers accused...

Despite stiff online competition, the Internet is being increasingly seen by many as the saviour of newspapers’ classified advertising business. Advertisers will soon want more from an advertisement than the few lines of text that a Google spot can give. And, there is evidence that newspapers can be competitive players in the online classifieds game, says a new report by a leading newspaper...