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Dean Baquet was forced out as editor of the Los Angeles Times after he refused renewed demands from Tribune Co. to lay off more journalists, aggravating tension between the media company and its biggest newspaper. Mr. Baquet is exiting a month after Tribune ousted the newspaper's publisher, Jeffrey M. Johnson, and replaced him with David D. Hiller, then the publisher of the company's flagship...

MALAYSIA'S internal security ministry has temporarily shut down a weekend newspaper after it caused an outroar with an eye-popping survey of attitudes to sex. The Internal Security Ministry suspended the Weekend Mail's publishing licence, a ministry source said today, after the survey brought howls of protest from Government ministers. The newspaper, part of a stable of pro-government publications...

Two Iraqi TV channels have been shut down in the aftermath of Saddam Hussein's death sentence, accused of inciting violence among viewers. Press freedom group The Committee to Protect Journalists said it was "concerned" by the decision to close the two Sunni-owned satellite channels. Security forces raided al-Zawraa TV in Baghdad and Saleheddin TV in Tikrit on grounds they were inciting violence...

LONDON - John McGurk, the managing editor of the Telegraph Group, has relinquished his role after just four months, amid mounting speculation of cultural differences with senior management. McGurk, who was editor at The Scotsman before joining the Telegraph Group, has not left the company but it is unclear whether his future will be at the Telegraph Group. He was tasked with overseeing cost-saving...

MCLEAN, Va., Nov. 7 (UPI) -- The largest newspaper chain in the United States, Gannett Co., based in McLean, Va., has said it will incorporate "citizen journalism" into its papers. The company, which publishes USA Today, the Des Moines Register, the Fort Myers (Fla.) News-Press and other papers, said it would also begin searching for stories at online discussion forums and create online calendar...

WEB 2.0 SITES MAKE UP the fastest-growing category on the Web--doubling their traffic over the last year, according to data presented Monday by Nielsen//NetRatings at an industry conference in New York. At an ad:tech session titled "Web 2.0: Predictions and Pithy Analysis," Nielsen//NetRatings Senior Vice President of Industry Solutions Charles Buchwalter and Roy de Souza, CEO of ad serving...

KUALA LUMPUR (Reuters) - Malaysian government leaders have rebuked a local newspaper for publishing a frank expose of sexual attitudes among the country's youth. The Weekend Mail gave detailed descriptions of favourite sex positions from its survey -- including "spooning, galloping and tea bag positions" -- in three pages of stories that delivered on its front-page promise: "You'll be shocked". "I...

ALEXANDRIA, Va., Nov. 6 (UPI) -- The conservative Media Research Center of Alexandria, Va., has predicted that TV networks will reveal partisan slants in their election night coverage. The center's Brent Baker said he believes broadcast networks ABC, NBC and CBS will likely use the results to paint Democrats in a favorable light, The Washington Times reported Monday. "Victories for Democrats...

SAN FRANCISCO, Nov 5 (Reuters) - Google Inc. (GOOG.O: Quote, Profile , Research) is set to begin helping customers buy advertisements in 50 U.S. newspapers in a test of how the Web search leader can extend its business into offline media, the company said on Sunday. Google said it has invited more than 100 advertisers already buying ads through its Web marketing system to join a three-month test...