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There are those who say that in the Internet age the rules of grammar and style are dead. But the people at the University of Chicago Press, publisher of the Chicago Manual of Style, are not among them. And so starting tomorrow the manual — sometimes known as publishing’s Miss Manners — will be available online by subscription, meaning that those who need to know, pronto, whether it is ever all...

LONDON - The Financial Times is set to ditch its iconic "No FT, no comment" strapline and is expected to replace it with DDB London's "We live in Financial Times". The new work is expected to break in the spring and will promote the newspaper and FT.com to a globally minded audience of senior-level decision-makers. DDB London scooped the £5m creative account in September, after a three-way pitch...

The News Corporation, owner of The New York Post, has broadened its metropolitan-area presence with the acquisition of two newspaper groups that have 28 weekly papers primarily serving Queens and Brooklyn. With the move, News Corporation is increasing its reach to the boroughs outside Manhattan and the minority populations that have been strongholds of its main competitor, The Daily News. While...

New York, September 28, 2006—The Committee to Protect Journalists condemns the government of Burundi for a campaign of harassment and intimidation which has forced Alexis Sinduhije, the head of Radio Publique Africaine (RPA) into hiding. Communications Minister Karenga Ramadhani likened RPA to Radio Télévision Libre des Mille Collines, the radio station that incited genocide in neighboring Rwanda...

Was a time in my life when waiting for the newspaper boy to deliver my copy of The Hindu was the most agonizing wait of the day. It's not that the delivery boy was late but because I was early and anxious to know the close-of-play score in some test match being played in some other part of the world. Remember these were days before ESPN / Star Sports and the Internet. And yet, when I said "my copy...

New York, September 27, 2006—The Committee to Protect Journalists is deeply concerned by Tunisian and Egyptian government decisions to ban recent issues of European newspapers addressing the controversy caused by remarks about Islam made by Pope Benedict XVI. “Banning newspapers is unacceptable, and it is no solution in furthering the cause of mutual understanding and respect,” CPJ Executive...

(PROBIDAD/IFEX) - Rural journalist Óscar Valdez, director of the television programme "La otra cara", broadcast by Telecab company and Radio Antena 5 radio station in the city of Catacamas, Olancho department, northeastern Honduras, has emerged unscathed by a defamation and slander action, after reaching an agreement with the plaintiffs, thus avoiding a public trial. EUREE, a company distributing...

PRAGUE, September 27, 2006 (RFE/RL) -- Thirty-nine-year old Jamshid Karimov left his home in Jizzakh on September 12 to visit his mother at the hospital. That was the last time his relatives saw him. As his brother Alisher explained, Jamshid "never returned home." Two days later, Jamshid Karimov's friend and colleague, Ulugbek Khaidarov, was arrested in broad daylight in Jizzakh. Gone Missing...

Samar is one of those whom I call a “friend of newspapers”. He is well read, has a keen interest in public affairs and has periodically penned very readable book reviews and useful pieces on information technology. So when he confessed over the phone that he had virtually stopped reading newspapers seriously, I knew it was time to worry. It’s not that he had actually stopped buying a newspaper. In...

New Delhi: Indian-American academic and journalist, Dr Sarmila Bose, becomes the first Director of the new Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism at the Department of Politics and International Relations at Oxford University. Bose, who was schooled in Kolkata, received her A B from Bryn Mawr College and her MPA and PhD in Political Economy and Government from Harvard University. Dr Bose has...