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When the World Economic Forum last met 12 months ago, the undoubted media stars of the event were Larry Page and Sergey Brin. Aside perhaps from Bono, nobody attracted such attention, adulation or worried fascination as the founders of Google. This year, however, the disruptive technologists were playing a more reserved role, while the old media moguls whose power they were supposed to have sapped...

Chandigarh, January 27: Chandigarh-Punjab Union of Journalists (CPUJ) has sought an apology from Punjab Chief Minister Captain Amarinder Singh for the incident related to the dismissal of a reporter from the vernacular press at the alleged behest of his media adviser B I S Chahal on Friday. The members of CPUJ, during their executive meeting held here today, have decided to protest by wearing...

Counts of plagiarism and fabrication of news in the United States were higher in 2006 than in the previous year, according to Regret The Error. Regret The Error, which reports on corrections, retractions, clarifications and trends regarding accuracy and honesty in the US media, says in its annual roundup of 2006, “There's more scrutiny than ever before and Google has made it easier to catch a...

The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and Arab journalists’ groups have called for urgent action to protect journalists working in the Gaza area of Palestine where they say threats from political extremists and recent violence against media have created a “climate of intolerable intimidation.” Palestinian policemen stand in front of the damaged office of Al-Arabiya television in Gaza...

(CPJ/IFEX) - New York, January 26, 2007 - The Committee to Protect Journalists is greatly concerned about new regulations imposed by the Bangladeshi interim government that severely restrict news reporting. The Emergency Powers Rules of 2007, announced on Thursday, restrict press coverage of political news and set penalties of up to five years in prison for violations. The new rules aim at a wide...

LONDON (AFP) - BBC staff are to stage a two-day strike next week in protest over work being outsourced to India. Members of the Communication Workers Union (CWU) at the BBC's television licensing headquarters in Bristol, southwest England, were to take industrial action on Monday and Tuesday, warning that the outsourcing could lead to hundreds of job losses. More than 100 workers were to strike...

New York, January 26, 2007—The Committee to Protect Journalists is concerned about journalist Suhail Qalander, who has been missing along with a friend since January 2. His colleagues believe he was kidnapped, possibly in relation to his work as a Peshawar editor of the Daily Express, Pakistan’s second largest Urdu language newspaper. “We join our Pakistani colleagues in expressing growing concern...

Trinity Mirror has launched five citizen journalism micro-sites as a taster of what could become commonplace across the group's news websites. Michael Hill, Trinity's head of multimedia, speaking at the UCEBirmingham citizen journalism conference today, said that the five sites on the Teesside Gazette were launched at the start of the year. He said 20 volunteers have already agreed to contribute...

The Chechnya prosecutor’s office is investigating officers of the southern republic’s Interior Ministry in connection with articles by the slain investigative reporter Anna Politkovskaya, according to the Moscow business daily Kommersant. The daily Wednesday quoted Chechnya prosecutor Valery Kuznetsov as saying that Politkovskaya’s accounts of alleged torture last spring prompted his office to...

LONDON (Reuters) - A senior journalist on the country's biggest-selling newspaper hacked into the mobile telephones of members of the royal household "several hundred" times, a London court heard on Friday. The News of the World's royal affairs editor Clive Goodman listened to voice mail messages left for the press secretary of heir-to-the-throne Prince Charles and also for two officials who...