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An overwhelming 94 per cent of Canadians say newspapers should be published on environmentally friendly paper, according to a poll released by environmental publishing advocates Markets Initiative. The numbers show the importance of the environment for Canadians not only as a voting issue but also in their consumer choices. “The numbers show that Canadian consumer choices involve a strong...

Delhi now has a tabloid – the product of a joint venture between HT Media and the Times of India Group. Metro Now, a 48-page morning tabloid, rolled out on February 5. Intended to cater to the new metro travelling class, fast emerging on the lines of Mumbai’s local train commuters who have little time and elbow space to read through a regular size paper, this will be the first morning tabloid...

Local news websites offering user-generated content are securing a valuable place in the media landscape and are likely to continue as important sources of community news, says a new report by US-based J-Lab: The Institute for Interactive Journalism. The sites that really cook, such as Morris Publishing’s BlufftonToday.com, combine a style of in-town social networking among neighbours who might...

While eight people have been charged in the 19 January murder of Turkish-Armenian journalist Hrant Dink, the negligence of the authorities in this case and the sympathy for the murderer displayed by police in a video made public last week call for sanctions and measures to protect journalists in Turkey, Reporters Without Borders said today. “As the murder investigation continues, recent...

SAN FRANCISCO - Like thousands of other Web sites, EDN.com relies on Google Inc. to handle a lucrative piece of Internet advertising _ the briefly worded links that produce revenue-generating clicks by targeting each individual reader's interests. The relationship has been profitable so far, but the managers of the technology Web site believe they could be making even more money if Google's system...

Reporters Without Borders today condemned the detention of journalist Ramón Velázquez Toranso of the independent news Libertad, who has been held in the provincial prison in the eastern province of Las Tunas since his arrest on 23 January and who went on hunger strike on 30 January. Around 40 journalists have been detained, attacked or threatened, some of them several times, since Raúl Castro took...

CAIRO, Egypt - Press freedom is quickly losing ground in the Middle East as authoritarian governments retreat from liberalization undertaken early in the Bush administration's push for democracy, the Committee to Protect Journalists said Monday. The annual report paints a grim picture of diminishing press freedoms worldwide, with Middle Eastern countries among the worst offenders. Just two years...

A dispute between The New York Times and the Pentagon over publication of a photo of a wounded soldier in Iraq, who later died, highlights how poorly many of the rules regarding embedded journalists in Iraq are structured and enforced, veteran embeds said Thursday. "This is something that has gone on for some time and has caused problems in the past," said James Crawley, a Media General military...

NEW YORK: In early January, a U.S. edition of The Epoch Times published a list of what its editors considered the Top 10 news stories of 2006. Not surprisingly, the war in Iraq was first. The second story, however, was less predictable: "China's Human Rights Movement Grows." The subject may not have made other news organizations' Top 10 lists, but The Epoch Times is not a typical media outlet. It...

Charles E. Scripps, who oversaw the family media company that bears his name as it expanded from newspapers into cable television, has died in Naples, Fla. The Cincinnati Enquirer reported Scripps died of natural causes at his home at age 87. Scripps was grandson of E.W. Scripps Co., founder Edward W. Scripps. He was chairman of the company's board from 1953 to 1994. The Enquirer said his first...