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CNNMoney.com was the most visited business-destination Web site of 2006, according to 12-month averages of the Nielsen/NetRatings Financial News and Information category. The site beat competitors Forbes.com, Marketwatch.com, BusinessWeek.com and WSJ.com in number of unique visitors, page views and gross-usage minutes. CNNMoney.com hopes to solidify this title with a site redesign that will...

A Pakistani journalist abducted in the North West Frontier Province (NWFP) last month along with a friend was rescued Wednesday by law enforcing agencies from a tribal area, according to news reports. Suhail Qalander, Resident Editor of Urdu newspaper Daily Express kisses his son after returning homein Peshawar, Pakistan, Wednesday February 21, 2007. (Associated Press of Pakistan) Qalander and...

Reuters is to launch a consumer-targeted African news and information portal that will include a continent-wide network of local bloggers. Reuters Africa aims to bring together a range of financial news, breaking general news and features that the company's diverse and extensive network of reporters file from across the continent. Content will also include sports coverage and clips of video...

The Russian police raided the offices of a British organisation that supports journalists in conflict zones on Wednesday as part of a probe into alleged financial irregularities. The Institute for War and Peace Reporting (IWPR) is a nongovernmental organisation which seeks to support objective journalism in some of the world's most hostile regions, from Iraq to the Caucasus and Afghanistan. IWPR...

SYDNEY - In a cut-throat world, some Australian reporters will go to extreme lengths for a story -- even if it means helping chain an 84-year-old woman to her nursing home room. A Channel Seven television reporter has been suspended after his stunt was broadcast nationwide on Tuesday night. Reporter Nicholas Boot's story led the network's Today Tonight show, and featured Shirley Frey chained to a...

IF the 20th century was known in marketing circles as the advertising century, the 21st may be the advertising measurement century. Marketers are increasingly focused on the effectiveness of their pitches, trying to figure out the return on investment for ad spending. That is spurring most of the major media — along with many large research companies like Arbitron, Nielsen and Taylor Nelson Sofres...

A British investigative journalist has warded off a renewed bid to force him to reveal his source for an article published seven years ago about a mental hospital's alleged mistreatment of a murderer. Robin Ackroyd gave extracts from Brady's medical records to the Daily Mirror, which printed them in an article about "the Moors Murderer's hunger strike" in December 1999. The House of Lords ordered...

NDTV managing editor Barkha Dutt has been given the CBA-Thomson Foundation Journalist of the Year Award constituted by the Commonwealth Broadcasting Association (CBA) and Thomson Foundation. Dutt won in a category that included nominations from 53 Commonwealth countries. A woman waits for water in Soweto. The CBA-Amnesty International Award for Human Rights Programme went to South African...

The Commonwealth Broadcasting Association invites applications from full-time staff of member broadcasting organisations for the 2007 - 8 Commonwealth Professional Fellowships. The fellowships are in specific categories and must be of practical value. The Professional Fellowships Programme seeks to enhance the skills of mid-career practitioners in developing countries. Priority will be given to...

The Financial Times has abandoned controversial plans for a new staff appraisal system. The proposal would have seen all staff categorised as outperformers, steady performers or underperformers. "After a healthy debate around the office about the suggested idea of people being fitted into categories, it was decided that it would no longer be pursued," said the National Union of Journalists' father...