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Baghdad: Iraq's parliament will bar the media from future sessions and began yesterday by refusing access to reporters and then cutting off television coverage as a debate on mounting sectarian violence became heated. Spokesmen for the government and parliament said it was part of efforts, newly agreed by Iraq's National Security Council, to stop political leaders contradicting each other in...

The Pulitzer Prize Board has established new rules allowing newspapers to submit a full array of online material such as databases, interactive graphics, and streaming video for its journalism awards. An assortment of Web 2.0 elements will now be permitted in all awards except for the competition's two photography categories, which will continue to restrict entries to still images. "This board...

PHILADELPHIA (AP) -- The largest union at Philadelphia's two biggest daily newspapers is planning to launch an online newspaper to compete with the company Web site if workers go on strike after midnight on Thursday. Employees from The Philadelphia Inquirer and Philadelphia Daily News would contribute local content that will be edited and posted online, said Stu Bykofsky, a Daily News columnist...

LONDON - The popularity of BBC World's news output in the US is on the rise, overtaking its cable competitors, according to an independent report by The Erdos and Morgan Opinion Leaders Survey. The survey, which polled more than 480,000 adults between May and June this year, found that of 52 TV news programmes available in the US, those on BBC World ranked sixth, with 144,000 viewers. BBC World's...

NEW DELHI: According to the findings of Blogging India: An MSN and Windows Live Report released today, India’s blogosphere is driven by youth and a passion for self improvement and entertainment with 42 per cent of online users reading blogs to stay informed about world events, 49 per cent citing entertainment as the main reason they read blogs, and blogs written by business leaders ranking as the...

There were winners on Election Day other than the Democrats. In the race for best media coverage, the winners were Websites, according to a report by the Project for Excellence in Journalism, which followed 32 different outlets, including newspaper Websites, television programs, blogs, magazine Websites and aggregators like Google and Yahoo. The Websites delivered results quickly, allowing users...

BAGHDAD, 27 November (IRIN) - Freelance journalist Samir Khairallah, 31, walks a tight line between reporting the news and not becoming the news. With ongoing insurgent attacks and brutal sectarian violence plaguing the country, he must be careful about what he writes and whose 'side' he is perceived to be on. "Iraqi journalists are in constant danger. Different groups are targeting us without any...

New York, November 27, 2006—The Committee to Protect Journalists condemns the government closure of Azerbaijan’s oldest independent radio and television broadcaster, and the harassment of independent and opposition print media. Authorities sealed facilities and confiscated broadcast equipment on November 24 of the Azerbaijan News Service (ANS), local media reported. The closure of the Baku-based...

NEW YORK (AP) -- Monster Worldwide Inc., a leading provider of online help-wanted advertising, announced partnerships with four newspaper publishers Monday, expanding its base of advertising-sharing arrangements with traditional media companies. The news comes one week after Yahoo Inc. announced a broader arrangement with more than 150 newspapers in which Yahoo's HotJobs site -- a rival to Monster...

Last month, FoxNews.com ran an article about Republican House Speaker Dennis Hastert's postelection prospects. In the story, the words "house," "speaker" and "leadership" were underlined twice. The underlines weren't for emphasis -- they were clues that those words were doubling as advertisements. When readers moved their cursors over the underlined words, a pop-up advertisement would appear...