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Traditional US media companies are increasing their share of the fast-growing online advertising sector relative to internet rivals such as Google and Yahoo, according to a new study. In one of the first detailed reports of the relative positions of traditional media companies and their online competitors, Veronis Suhler Stevenson, the private equity group, has shown that, contrary to many people...

DETAILS on the scrapping of Australia's cross-media and foreign media ownership rules, the allocation of new digital spectrum and increased regulatory powers for the Australian Communication and Media Authority will be unveiled this week. Fierce lobbying is still taking place on the thorny issue of anti-siphoning regulations covering broadcast rights to major events, as media lobbyists gather in...

Colombo, 12 September, (Asiantribune.com): The Footwear Association of Sri Lanka has published its first monthly newsletter Footwear Newst to increase awareness of local small and medium sized footwear manufacturers. Issuing a press notice Chairman of the Association Mr.K,L.Chandralal de Silva says small footwear manufacturers always need assistance of the large scale footwear manufacturers to...

NEW YORK: Eric Alterman, perhaps the first writer to get a blog on a mainstream national news site, has been dismissed after 10 years by MSNBC.com. "P.S., I’m Fired," he heads an email to others in the media. His blog, Altercation, however, will be picked up by the liberal site Media Matters. He will also become a senior fellow there. Alterman has also been a longtime columnist at The Nation...

NEW YORK: Attempting to blunt buzz in the blogosphere about an alleged "Spy for Saddam," the Associated Press released a retort late Monday by Linda Wagner, director of media relations and public affairs, terming the charges "absurd." The AP statement explains the background. It follows. * All the information in a handwritten Arabic document from Iraq that some blogs claim to be evidence that an...

New York, September 11, 2006—Islamist authorities detained a journalist for two days and shut an independent radio station for a similar period in separate incidents this weekend, according to news reports and the National Union of Somali Journalists (NUSOJ). In Beledweyne, a western town controlled by the Islamic Courts Union (ICU), authorities jailed journalist Osman Adan Areys of the private...

The mass media in Israel have recently faced an unprecedented attack from readers, listeners and viewers who are unwilling to accept the media's conduct during the Second Lebanon War. This may be partially due to the conduct of the war and its outcome. The official communications authorities are trying, albeit somewhat hesitantly, to take a stand, but do not conceal their dissatisfaction. The...

New York, September 11, 2006—The Committee to Protect Journalists condemns the murder of an editor of Iraq’s state-run daily Al-Sabah. Abdel Karim al-Rubai, 40, a design editor for the newspaper, was shot Saturday morning while traveling to work in the eastern Baghdad neighborhood known as Camp Sara by several gunmen. The driver of the car was seriously wounded, media sources told CPJ. “We deplore...

"Today it is impossible to prevent publication," says the new president of the Israel Press Council, Dalia Dorner. "If newspaper A does not publish certain material, it will be published by newspaper B, and if not by newspaper B then on television, and if not on television then in a blog." This was the former justice's response to the not-so-hypothetical question of how she would react if she...

The attacks that killed almost 3,000 Americans on Sept. 11, 2001, started a new kind of conflict, one that President Bush calls a war on terror. As the months and years pass, the war fades into the background of many Americans’ daily lives. But the cost is very real, and it’s constantly escalating. It’s the duty of journalists to keep the American public aware of this cost. In its pages of...