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Pamela Pekerman, who blogs about handbags at www.bagtrends.com, had to sneak into the Bryant Park tents during New York fashion week in February. Unable to secure hot invitations, she had to settle for watching models strut down the catwalk on a large video monitor outside the shows, or, worse, on the Internet. If she was lucky, she got a standing-room-only ticket. This fall is another story. Ms...

Bulgaria's leading online media Sofia News Agency and Darik News pooled efforts in a joint project, called DarikWeb, Inc. The company will be officially presented on September 13 at Radisson hotel, Sofia, 11 am by Maxim Behar, publisher of Sofia News Agency, and Radosvet Radev, owner of Darik News and private national radio broadcaster Darik. DarikWeb, Inc. sets out to be the leader in Bulgaria's...

At a blog conference held in Chennai last week, a prominently displayed banner read, “I killed the conventional media”. The conference was held along the lines of numerous such events in the United States, where Internet companies pay top dollar to send their executives to listen to college kids talk about blogging. This one was meant to trade techniques, share experiences and try and look at the...

The Iranian government has shut down four publications, including a major reformist newspaper, according to reports. The reformist daily, Shargh, or East, was shut down Monday indefinitely because it had refused to replace its managing director apart from publishing a cartoon in a recent edition that was considered insulting to the government, state television said, citing a statement from the...

A man purporting to lead an African branch of the al Qaeda militant network claimed responsibility on Tuesday for the beheading of a Sudanese newspaper editor who was found dead last week. The man, in a statement distributed to Sudanese newspapers, called editor Mohamed Taha a "dog of dogs from the ruling party", and accused him of insulting the prophet Mohammad. "Three individuals from this...

Reporters of the Islamic Republic News Agency's (IRNA) office at UN Headquarters in New York have been slapped new restrictions by the US government to deter activities in covering news events, it was reported here Tuesday. The IRNA website in Manhattan district has been blocked since 22:00 hours Friday (local time). After several contacts with Manhattan officials, the office was told the problem...

MOSCOW, September 12 (RIA Novosti) - Russia's Supreme Court upheld a lower court decision rejecting a motion against a southwest Siberian news agency following a media scandal over cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed, a court source said Tuesday. Satirical cartoons of the Prophet were published in a Danish newspaper last September and subsequently reprinted by other Western media earlier this year...

NEW YORK/LONDON (Hollywood Reporter) - The news, when it came to CBS News in New York early on Memorial Day, May 29, was horrifying. A car bomb had exploded in a relatively quiet Baghdad neighborhood as a CBS News crew was following a U.S. Army Fourth Infantry Division unit on a routine patrol. Cameraman Paul Douglas and soundman James Brolan were killed instantly, along with the soldier they were...

WASHINGTON – With all the tumult in the news media today - the decline of the old media, the rise of the citizen journalist, the startling discovery that a woman can, in fact, read a teleprompter from behind a big desk just like a man - it is sometimes the subtle changes that go unnoticed. Take, for example, the recent decision by Time magazine to hit the newsstand on Fridays instead of Mondays...

BEIJING, Sept 12 (Reuters) - International press groups denounced new Chinese curbs on the dissemination of foreign news as a step backwards ahead of the 2008 Beijing Olympics, when thousands of journalists will descend on the country's capital. The official Xinhua news agency announced rules on Sunday requiring foreign media to seek its approval with immediate effect to distribute news, pictures...