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Yahoo Inc. said Monday it is partnering with seven newspaper chains, including the joint venture partner in Wisconsin State Journal and Capital Times in Madison, to share advertising. Sunnyvale, Calif.-based Yahoo (NASDAQ: YHOO) said that advertisers who put job listings in any of the more than 150 newspapers involved in the deal will also be able to post them on Yahoo's HotJobs site. Terms were...

PARIS: The rush of job recruiting ads on MonsterIndia.com tells the story of the latest class of workers to watch their trade start migrating to another continent. "Urgent requirement for business writers," reads one ad looking for journalists to locate in Mumbai. "Should be willing to work in night shifts (UK shift)." Another casts for English-speaking journalists in Bangalore with "experience in...

EL TIGRE, Venezuela, Nov. 13 — Nancy Cecilia Flores still trembles when she recalls how a gunman unloaded eight rounds into her father, Jesús Flores Rojas, a well-known journalist in this oil city. It was 8:50 p.m. on Aug. 23. They had just returned from the pharmacy in her father's prized possession, a 1979 Chevrolet Malibu. A young man approached as they entered their driveway, motioned for her...

The newsroom at Al-Jazeera International on K Street is newer than most — everything is digital — but producers and editors monitor events around the globe via computer just as they do at CNN, NBC, ABC and CBS. Competitors, however, "are owned by conglomerates that determine what they do and don't do," while AJI is bankrolled by the emir of Qatar, says producer Sol Levine, who once ran CNN's...

It still happens that before shipping off to India, you are prescribed one of VS Naipaul's subcontinental travel tomes, several hundred pages of sonorous insights meant to be taken along with your bitter, nightmare-inducing anti-malarials. Together with Rushdie's Indo-Pak partition epic Midnight's Children, Naipaul's India books constitute the heavier half of a well-established literary travel...

With over 40 news channels, almost 100 million television homes and over 200 million viewers weekly, 24-hour news channels are on the upswing. A TAM media research conducted in six metros reveals that with television viewership doubling in the past three years, news has emerged as the most sought after genre. While the share of the Hindi news channels has increased by 78%, the English news...

The newsroom at Al-Jazeera International on K Street is newer than most — everything is digital — but producers and editors monitor events around the globe via computer just as they do at CNN, NBC, ABC and CBS. Competitors, however, “are owned by conglomerates that determine what they do and don’t do,” while AJI is bankrolled by the emir of Qatar, says producer Sol Levine, who once ran CNN’s...

THE UNITED STATES no longer controls the script. That's a reality Democratic congressional leaders must digest as they seek to recast America's relationship with the world. There used to be a time when the US media wrote the global narrative. The world saw itself through a largely American camera lens. No more. This week's launch of al-Jazeera International, the English speaking cousin to the...

New Delhi: The nation celebrated National Press Day on November 16. It was the day on which the Press Council of India started functioning as a moral watchdog. Today, the media is everywhere. Take for example, the kidnapping of three-year-old Anant. The media is reporting everything from the investigation leads to the personal woes of his family. When Jessica Lall is denied justice, press leads a...

NEW DELHI, NOV 17 (PTI): An expose of the Bihar flood scam which led to the jailing of an IAS officer and reporting into the missing tigers from the Indian wildlife sanctuaries have won the Indian Express the prestigious IPI India Award for Excellence in Journalism. The India chapter of the International Press Institute (IPI) today announced the award, which carries a cash prize of Rs two lakh, a...