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THE future of Government's news agency might be in doubt if the cash-strapped parastatal does not get a much-needed financial injection soon to operate as a commercialised entity, the Auditor General's office has warned. The Namibia Press Agency (Nampa) made a net loss of N$1,71 million in the financial year ending March 31 2005, some N$352 000 more than the previous financial year despite...

THE future of Government’s news agency might be in doubt if the cash-strapped parastatal does not get a much-needed financial injection soon to operate as a commercialised entity, the Auditor General’s office has warned. The Namibia Press Agency (Nampa) made a net loss of N$1,71 million in the financial year ending March 31 2005, some N$352 000 more than the previous financial year despite...

(WPFC/IFEX) - The WPFC has given a Fund Against Censorship grant to Argentinean journalist and author Mariano Saravia, an investigative reporter who has been sued for civil defamation after writing a book naming former armed forces and police officers whom he alleges participated in assassinations, tortures and disappearances of people opposed to the former military dictatorship. Because of the...

The Pentagon's new effort to influence media coverage of the war in Iraq is an example of how governments react when a war is not going too well. They begin to think it is not the war that is the problem, but the presentation of it. The media, being the messengers, get the blame, not the message itself. The plan, detailed in a memo seen by the Associated Press news agency, is for a rapid response...

Chennai: The publication in The Hindu of a Reuters photograph of Qutubbin Naseeruddin Ansari, a victim of communal violence in Gujarat, with captions, showed no "mal-intent on the part of the newspaper and even the various headings given over a period of time did not substantially differ from the sum and substance of the caption given by Reuters" but "the newspaper should have avoided mentioning...

Lucknow, Oct 20 (IANS) Uttar Pradesh's ruling Samajwadi Party, assembly speaker Mata Prasad Pandey as well as the opposition appear to have closed ranks to haul up CNN-IBN editor-in-chief Rajdeep Sardesai for a sting operation that his television channel carried out exposing blatant corrupt practices of a state minister as well as some legislators. Just as Speaker Mata Prasad Pandey, of the...

PDF workflows and high-speed Internet access have dramatically changed magazine manufacturing, especially on smaller magazines. These days it’s common for a title to have a freelance designer, often off-site. On deadline, files fly back and forth, thanks to FTP sites. Final files are frequently sent to the printer from an outsourced designer’s location and at his or her convenience. So if a...

Oct. 30 (Bloomberg) -- U.S. daily newspapers are losing readers at an accelerating rate, led by big-city publications such as the Miami Herald and Los Angeles Times. Circulation at 770 daily newspapers declined 2.8 percent in the six months ended Sept. 30, the Newspaper Association of America said today in a statement, citing data from the Audit Bureau of Circulations. In the year-ago period...

NEW YORK — Who says the mainstream media don't respect the blogosphere? CNN is trying to incorporate bloggers directly into its coverage of next week's midterm elections by inviting them to an "E-lection Nite Blog Party," an event aimed at corralling some of the top online opinion makers in one place to provide instant reaction as the results come in. The cable news network plans to host more than...

Thomas James Hurst of The Seattle Times has won first prize in E&P's annual Photos of the Year contest. He receives $1,000 and a Canon EOS-1D Mark II N digital SLR camera. The seventh annual Photos of the Year contest, sponsored by Canon, produced a record number of entries this year. Prize-winning photographs were selected from hundreds of entries in four categories (news, features, sports, and...