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Reporters Without Borders voiced concern today about the mutual hostility between Sylvia Blyden, a government ally and publisher of the privately-owned Awareness Times daily, and Philip Neville, the executive editor of the privately-owned Standard Times daily, which led to Neville’s arrest yesterday in Freetown on a charge of libelling Blyden. “This regrettable case shows that Sierra Leone lacks...

BAYSIDE, Texas: Show me the money, or at least some receipts scribbled on the backs of old envelopes and grocery bags. This week, we were treated to the spectacle of the former U.S. civilian overlord of Iraq, Ambassador L. Paul Bremer, squirming in the hot seat as he attempted with little success to explain what he did with 363 TONS of newly printed, shrink-wrapped $100 bills he had flown to...

The World Association of Newspapers (WAN) hasn’t much patience with the doom and gloom pundits who constantly report that newspapers are a dying industry, so this week it has produced some updated statistics to show the good news that newspaper circulation globally is growing and new newspapers are being launched far more frequently than may have been thought. But at the risk of sounding like one...

New York, February 7, 2007— The Committee to Protect Journalists expressed concern today at the government’s indefinite removal of a new private television station from the air by cutting its use of a state-owned transmitter. Nation Television Uganda (NTV) went off the air Saturday after officials at the Broadcasting Council (BC), an official media regulator, switched off its transmitter and...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Nearly 90 percent of all U.S. companies polled in a new study will use part of their marketing budgets to advertise in new media like video games or virtual communities. The survey by the American Advertising Federation underscores the shift in advertising spending away from television, magazines and, particularly, newspapers, which have suffered badly from declining...

MUMBAI: More than half of communications industry executives believe that Internet Protocol Television (IPTV) can generate significant revenue within the first three years of service, according to findings of a survey released by Accenture and the Economist Intelligence Unit. The survey of nearly 350 executives from telecom, broadcasting and media companies across 46 countries in the US, Europe...

Blogger Josh Wolf now holds the troubling record as the longest-jailed journalist for contempt of court in recent American history. Wolf, who is refusing to comply with a grand jury subpoena for his testimony and video outtakes, has spent 169 days in a federal prison in California as of February 6. He has now spent more time behind bars than author/journalist Vanessa Leggett, who spent 168 days in...

Reaching new markets, content delivery and distribution, and digitisation have emerged as the top strategic focus of Indian media and entertainment (M&E) companies, according to a leading innovator in the IT market research industry. Many Indian M&E firms are looking at investments in technology as a way to more effectively deliver their content to new audiences, especially cities and towns...

An Asahi Shimbun photographer who was found to have plagiarized from a Yomiuri Shimbun article has also plagiarized from another article in the Yomiuri and yet another from a local newspaper in Niigata, the Asahi announced Tuesday. The Asahi said it would fire the photographer, Toshimichi Niwa, 46, who belonged to its photograph center. He was transferred to its Tokyo headquarters' administrative...

Buys brand from Bharat Hotels. Mumbai’s popular afternoon tabloid Mid Day will hit Delhi next month. Its publisher Midday Multimedia Ltd has bought the “Mid Day” title back from the Delhi-based hospitality company Bharat Hotels promoted by the late Lalit Suri. The hotelier and Rajya Sabha MP owned the brand name and had been printing Delhi Mid Day in the city for 15 years. Earlier this week, The...