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The Telegraph Group is believed to be looking to axe about 70 journalists as part of its project to create a digital newsroom. Production staff such as subeditors and designers are expected to bear the brunt of the cull, designed to streamline the Telegraph's print and online operations. However, reporters and commissioning editors are likely to emerge virtually unscathed, once the Daily Telegraph...

(JED/IFEX) - The National Police's Kinshasa Provincial Criminal Investigation Unit (Inspection provinciale de la police nationale ville de Kinshasa, IPK) has released the names of journalist Bapuwa Mwamba's three presumed killers. Mwamba was killed at his Kinshasa/Matete home on the night of 7 to 8 July 2006. The suspects are soldier Vungu Mbembo, also known as Manassé, who is a deserter from the...

Since his accession to the throne in 1999, Bahrain's King Hamad bin 'Issa Al Khalifa has vowed to bring about reforms and freedoms to the Persian Gulf island-state; reforms that were celebrated by some, while others questioned the intentions behind them. Critics of the ruling family accused Al Khalifa of drafting and passing laws aimed at restricting civil and political rights in Bahrain and...

Free weekly newspapers have been around for years, but the launch of London's third free daily on Monday is further evidence that the public seems less inclined to pay for their news fix. First we had the "price wars", when in the 1980s various newspapers slashed their cover prices to as little as 10p in a bid to outsell their opponents. Now we have the "no price wars", the battle of the freebie...

In what could signal a sweeping change in the way magazine advertising is bought and sold, Time is seriously considering the elimination of its rate base, the circulation it guarantees to advertisers. While the Time Inc. newsweekly would not be the first publication to do so, it would be by far the most prominent, as one of the magazine industry’s leading titles, and the largest-circ newsweekly...

A newspaper war is about to begin on the streets of London, involving Rupert Murdoch's News International and Associated Newspapers, owners of the Evening Standard. Londoners, for a while at least, will have a choice of three evening papers, two of them free. This has caused excitement in the metropolitan press, particularly on the media pages. But the real story has been missed. Across most of...

New Delhi, September 3: A woman journalist was allegedly assualted by the Chief Medical Officer of Sushrusta Truama Centre in N Delhi on Saturday evening. According to the journalist, the incident took place while she had gone to the trauma centre in the line of her work. “Alongwith a newspaper reporter, I had gone to the centre to find out about a child — Shahid, from Balli Maran — who was...

LONDON (Reuters) - They may not know it, but hundreds of workers lining up across central London to hand out free newspapers on Monday are on the front line of a high-stakes media battlefield. In the one corner sits Rupert Murdoch's News International (NWS.N: Quote, Profile, Research) and its long-awaited freesheet "thelondonpaper"; in the other sits Associated Newspapers and "London Lite." The...

A senior editor at The New Republic was suspended and his blog was shut down on Friday after revelations that he was involved in anonymously attacking readers who criticized his posts. Lee Siegel, creator of the Lee Siegel on Culture blog for tnr.com, was suspended indefinitely from the magazine after a reader accused him of using a “sock puppet,” or Internet alias, to attack his critics in the...

(MFWA/IFEX) - Salif Dago, a journalist with "L'Enquêteur", a bi-monthly privately-owned newspaper, who has been charged with publishing false news, made his first appearance at a regional court in Niamey on 1 September 2006. According to an MFWA-Niger source, the State Prosecutor requested a 12-month prison sentence for Dago. Dago was arrested on 28 August and held in detention at the central...