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NEW YORK -- Time Inc. will prune its huge magazine portfolio, by seeking buyers for 18 of its smaller titles, leaving it to concentrate on larger properties like Time, People, and Sports Illustrated. Titles to be sold include Popular Science, Outdoor Life, Field & Stream, and Yachting, said someone familiar with the matter . News of the planned sales was reported earlier Tuesday by Advertising Age...

SINGAPORE, Sept 13 (Reuters) - Singapore's prime minister and his father, the founding father of the city-state, have filed a defamation suit against the publisher and editor of the Far Eastern Economic Review (FEER), according to court documents. Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong and former premier Lee Kuan Yew filed the libel suit against Hong Kong-based Review Publishing Company Ltd and FEER...

Australian newspaper publisher John Fairfax Holdings has joined News Corporation in refusing to support planned changes to the country's media ownership laws. Fairfax, the second largest newspaper publisher in Australia behind News Corp, has opposed the government reforms, which analysts believe would lead to a spate of takeovers. "The government's media package as it currently stands has become...

KHARTOUM (Reuters) - A senior Sudanese politician threatened to resign on Tuesday over what he said was the resurgence of censorship against Sudanese newspapers since the assassination of a journalist last week. Yasser Arman, deputy secretary-general of the former southern rebel Sudan People's Liberation Movement (SPLM), said he could no longer enforce Sudan's constitutional rules on freedom of...

TIKRIT, Iraq - An Iraqi journalist for a mass-selling Arabic language newspaper said she was released Wednesday after being arrested for allegedly helping insurgents. Kalshan al-Bayati, 33, of the London daily Al-Hayat, was arrested two days ago at her home in Tikrit, the hometown of Saddam Hussein, about 180 kilometres (110 miles) north of Baghdad. "They released me," Bayati said on Wednesday. "I...

Srinagar, Sept 13: First Kashmiri woman journalist and prominent literary personality Taj Begum Renzu died here today. She was 75. Wife of first Speaker of constituent Assembly Ghulam Rasool Renzu, Taj Begum was also the president of women's wing of National Conference before switching over to Congress. She was the first woman journalist in Kashmir who started a newspaper in Kashmiri, 'Alao'. She...

The Indian government has decided to grant accreditation to online journalists. The new Accreditation Guidelines for media persons have introduced the category of web journalists. The Union Ministry of Information & Broadcasting which grants accreditation to Indian as well as foreign mediapersons through its media unit Press Information Bureau (PIB), has revised the existing guidelines keeping in...

A move is afoot to arrest "the onslaught of negative reporting by the Western media which have tarnished the image" of Islam and Muslims. To start with, a meeting of senior officials of the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) member states Monday vouched for revamping of the International Islamic News Agency (IINA) and the Islamic States Broadcasting Organization (ISBO), Arab News has...

Embattled Hewlett-Packard Chairman Patricia Dunn resigned Tuesday in the face of trenchant criticism for ordering a controversial board investigation into boardroom leaks to the press. HP's probe into boardroom leaks dating back to 2005 sparked a media furore, as well as an inquiry by California's attorney-general that could result in criminal liability for identity theft and illegally accessing...

NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- Most media stocks have bounced back sharply this year after a brutal 2005 as investors began to realize that entertainment firms are positioning themselves for growth in the new world of digital media. And executives from several big media companies expressed even more optimism about the business and how they were adapting at an industry presentation Tuesday. News Corp...