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Rupert Murdoch, the 75-year-old chairman and chief executive of News Corp, is planning to push all parts of his media empire to become environmentally friendly, using the strategies put in place by his son and heir apparent James at British satellite operator BSkyB as a model, write Aline van Duyn and Andrew Jack in New York and Fiona Harvey in London. Mr Murdoch, better known as a sceptic on...

Half of all high school students get news online at least once a week, but teens rate TV the easiest-to-use news source — and the most accurate, says a study out Friday. In the Future of the First Amendment study, which surveyed 14,498 students and 882 teachers at 34 high schools last spring, 45% of teens say TV is the best overall source of news, 44% think it's the most accurate and 43% think it...

MOSCOW: A media rights watchdog sharply criticized Russian authorities for prosecuting a journalist who wrote an article allegedly mocking President Vladimir Putin. The New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists said in a statement released late Thursday that it was "deeply concerned" about the trial of Vladimir Rakhmankov, the editor of the online publication Kursiv in the city of Ivanovo...

MOSCOW: Relatives of a Turkmen journalist who died while in prison face harassment from authorities in the repressive Central Asian nation and could face imprisonment themselves, an international reporters watchdog warned Friday. Human rights groups say Ogulsapar Muradova, a reporter with U.S.-funded Radio Liberty, was tortured while in prison in Turkmenistan. The International Helsinki Federation...

(IFJ/IFEX) - The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) is outraged by the murder of Bellal Hossain Dafadar, correspondent of the Khulna-based daily newspaper Janabani, who died in hospital after being attacked and stabbed by up to five assailants on September 14. According to local reports, Bellal Hossain Dafadar, 38, was returning home on a bicycle from a local bazaar at around 7 pm when...

(CPJ/IFEX) - New York, September 22, 2006 - The Committee to Protect Journalists is concerned that a U.S. District Court judge has imposed jail sentences against two San Francisco Chronicle reporters who refused to reveal the source or sources of secret grand jury testimony about alleged steroid use by professional athletes. The judge, ruling on Thursday, stayed the sentence pending the outcome of...

NEW YORK: A new study by Google and Marketwatch finds that the Internet is now more important than newspapers in helping moviegoers decide which film to go to. The report, entitled "The Internet and Moviegoing: A Benchmark Study on Influences and Opportunities," which surveyed approximately 2,100 moviegoers between the ages 13 to 49, found that while moviegoers initially become aware of new films...

SAN FRANCISCO: Google Inc. refused to comply Wednesday with a Belgian court decision that required the company to publish the original text of the ruling on its sites, calling that requirement “unnecessary” and “disproportionate.” Earlier this month, the Belgian Court of First Instance ordered the Internet search engine to stop publishing content from Belgian newspapers without permission or...

Dean Baquet is taking a stand. The editor of the Los Angeles Times is putting his career on the line, telling his corporate bosses at the Tribune Co. that he cannot abide deeper cutbacks in a newsroom that has already lost more than 200 jobs since the Chicago conglomerate bought the paper six years ago. If the company keeps slashing away, colleagues say, Baquet is prepared to leave. "I think it's...

TUNIS - Tunisia has confiscated Tuesday's edition of French newspaper Le Figaro because its content insulted Islam and the Prophet Mohammad, an official source said on Wednesday. The daily ran an article by philosopher Robert Redeker on the controversy over the Pope's remarks on Islam in which Redeker described the Koran as a "book of unprecedented violence" and accused Muslims of seeking to...