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(RSF/IFEX) - With a total of 48 journalists and media assistants killed in cold blood since the start of January, 2006 is already the deadliest year for the Iraqi press since the start of the war in March 2003, Reporters Without Borders said, condemning targeted violence against media. "Journalists are being attacked more often than Iraqi politicians, who work in the Green Zone where the...

NEW YORK: On Sept. 11, 2001, Megan Stack, the Houston bureau chief for the Los Angeles Times, was vacationing in Paris. Following the terrorist attacks that day, she e-mailed her editors to say she was coming home. Their answer surprised her: Stay in Europe -- you'll be more useful there. In retrospect, it was quite an understatement. Stack, 30, is now the Cairo bureau chief for the Times. Since...

MANILA, Philippines - Philippine media groups on Tuesday accused the president's husband of trying to muzzle a critical press by filing a string of libel cases against 43 journalists and publishers. The National Union of Journalists denounced arrest warrants issued this week for a former opposition senator and the publisher and chief reporters of Malaya, a daily newspaper critical of President...

Microsoft is being targeted by the organisation that won a court battle with Google over the reproduction of newspaper content. The software giant is in talks with Copiepresse, the organisation that manages the copyright for the French and German-speaking press in Belgium, after receiving a "cease and desist" letter stating it should remove its newspaper content from the MSN website. Copiepresse -...

Oct. 18 (Bloomberg) -- Australian billionaires James Packer and Kerry Stokes today made the first moves in what is set to be the biggest shakeup of the nation's media in 20 years. Packer, Australia's richest person, agreed to sell half Publishing & Broadcasting Ltd.'s television and publishing assets to a venture jointly owned with CVC Asia Pacific, raising A$4.5 billion ($3.4 billion), the...

NEW DELHI: Subhash Chandra, head of India's biggest media group, and his partner will invest 7 billion rupees, or $154 million, to publish a newspaper in the capital, betting that increasing readership will lift advertising revenue. Daily News & Analysis, or DNA, plans to start its New Delhi edition and elsewhere in India within a year, Ashish Kaul, senior vice-president of Chandra's Essel Group...

New York, October 17, 2006 - The Committee to Protect Journalists is disappointed that the legal battle to win justice in the case of murdered Russian journalist Dmitry Kholodov has come to an end with the decision of the European Court of Human Rights not to pursue the case. Kholodov was killed 12 years ago today. The court in Strasbourg, France ruled Monday that it could not take up the case...

SHANGHAI (Reuters) - China's first foray into Web TV is a chance for foreign players like News Corp. to grab a slice of the world's second-largest Internet market, but winning official approval in a tightly-controlled market will be tough. Chinese regulations have so far limited foreign companies to small pockets of the country's satellite TV market. But firms are now eyeing Internet Protocol...

TORONTO The publisher and editor-in-chief of Canada's largest-circulation newspaper have resigned in a shake-up in the upper ranks of the Toronto Star, the daily reported Tuesday. Publisher Michael Goldbloom and editor-in-chief Giles Gherson, who had run the paper since 2004, told the staff Monday they were stepping down. Other news media reported that Gherson told reporters and editors that it...

For the editor-in-chief of the world’s biggest business magazine, one goal is paramount: keeping his title on the “must read” list. “You don’t want to be a discretionary read, that is too dangerous,” says Stephen Adler, the 51-year-old who last year stepped into the potential danger zone, taking over responsibility for all of the content in BusinessWeek, its website and its seven foreign language...