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The growth and immediacy of online media together with the availability of free papers has impacted heavily on the UK regional newspaper market according to new figures. Half-yearly circulation figures from the Audit Bureau of Circulations show only English regional daily newspapers did not lose readers year-on-year. The Oxford Mail gained 1.5 per cent to 25,373, while the Scunthorpe Telegraph...

(CPJ/IFEX) - New York, February 28, 2007 - Stories critical of President Laurent Gbagbo led authorities this week to charge four journalists working for two private newspapers in the commercial capital, Abidjan, with offending the head of state, according to news reports and local journalists. "We are concerned by this apparent crackdown on critical reporting," said CPJ Executive Director Joel...

NEW YORK (AdAge.com) -- Magazine publishers rejoice: Google and Yahoo executives said again yesterday you have nothing to fear from their nimble, strong and fast-growing empires. They just want you to join in their revolution. "At Google, we don't own content, nor do we create it," said David Eun, VP-content partnerships, Google, the opening speaker at the Magazine Publishers of America's third...

Major newspaper editors have now got together in opposing the British government’s proposed changes to the Freedom of Act Information that would cut down the number of access to information requests and save money. “I can’t remember any time when regional and national editors and broadcast and print are all completely at one,” said the Guardian editor, Alan Rusbridger, said. “I think my sense is...

Reporters Without Borders voiced scepticism today about a claim made by Chechnya’s acting President Ramzan Kadyrov at a news conference in Grozny on 20 February that Boris Berezovsky (a Russian businessman and former politician now living in exile in Britain) ordered the murders of journalist Anna Politkovskaya and former KGB spy Alexander Litvinenko. Kadyrov claimed that he was personally present...

Israel Defence Forces (IDF) arrested a local television director and harassed several journalists during a military operation in the West Bank city of Nablus on Monday, the New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has reported. An Israeli soldier gestures towards the camera during an Israeli military operation in the West Bank City of Nablus February 26, 2007. Israeli forces continued...

An Egyptian appeals court on Tuesday overturned a one-year jail term on newspaper editor Ibrahim Issa, convicted of defaming President Hosni Mubarak, and substituted a fine of 22,500 Egyptian pounds ($3,950), according to news reports. Ibrahim Issa, editor-in-chief of the independent Al Dustour weekly newspaper, speaks to the media after an Egyptian appeal court overturned a prison sentence...

The Associated Press (AP) has entered into an agreement with Voxant Inc to distribute a selection of its news stories, videos and photographs to blogs and other websites through Voxant's advertising-supported syndication network. Voxant, a startup company based in Reston, US, has deals in place to syndicate news from a number of major outlets including Reuters, Agence France-Press, the Canadian...

New York, February 27, 2007— The Committee to Protect Journalists condemns a three-month prison sentence and heavy damages handed down by a court in the southeastern city of Boma against a journalist over a story alleging corruption by the municipal treasury. Popol Ntula Vita, a correspondent at the private weekly La Cité Africaine in the capital Kinshasa, was sentenced on February 16 to three...

MAGAZINES AND OTHER PERIODICALS DISTRIBUTED via mail are facing higher costs and potentially thinner margins as a result of new postal rate increases, but the hike is not nearly as bad as some publisher industry executives might have feared. "As postal rate cases go, this has been a tough one, with even more varying points of view than in recent cases," Gordon Hughes, president-CEO of American...