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MUMBAI: Shobhana Bhartiya, Vice Chairperson and Editorial Director of HT Media Ltd, New Delhi, was on Friday elected chairperson of the Audit Bureau Of Circulations for 2006-2007. Bhartiya has been a member of the council of management of ABC since 1999 and deputy chairperson for 2005-2006. A Member of the Rajya Sabha, she is involved with industry bodies in India and abroad. She is also a member...

Conrad Black, the former head of Hollinger, has had his worldwide assets frozen and his income restricted to $20,000 (£10,500) a month. The assets of his wife, Barbara Amiel, have also reportedly been frozen. A court in Ontario issued the freeze at the request of Hollinger Inc, the Canadian company through which Lord Black of Crossharbour once owned the Telegraph newspaper titles and which earlier...

New York, September 1, 2006—A reporter for the private newspaper l’Enquêteur has been jailed since August 28, making him the third journalist imprisoned in Niger in recent weeks, according to local sources. Salif Dago was tried Thursday on charges of publishing false information and sent back to jail, the newspaper’s director Idrissa Soumana Maïga told CPJ. A verdict is expected September 15. The...

New York - Nirashree Munshi, a reporter in an ethnic Indian newspaper, has been crowned New Miss India California. Munshi, who is with the India Post newspaper, won the title at the 2006 edition of the pageant held in Oakland, California. According to a report in India Post, she began her performance with a short introduction of a classical raga called Puryadhanaashree. She followed this up with...

JOHN Fairfax is a company which is a long way from being in the sweet spot. It's caught in an unenviable pincer - a squeeze from the structural migration of classified advertising online, where it is pitched against numerous and canny competitors and a cyclical downturn in advertising. And this explains why its underlying profit fell 3.8 per cent. The only reason its share price has not reflected...

Investigative reporters toil in hidden corners, digging through court records, meeting anonymous whistle blowers in nondescript cafes. It is not uncommon for them to spend a year on a report that makes the front page for only a day or two. They can effect profound policy change, but their jobs usually don’t bring much personal glory. Now some investigative teams will get their “All the President’s...

(MISA/IFEX) - On August 24 2006, the minister for public service and information, Themba Msibi, warned the Swazi media against criticising the king, instilling further fear into an already timid press which cannot freely operate due to a perpetually hostile environment that continues to prevail despite the kingdom's new Constitution which guarantees freedom of expression. The minister's threats...

MILAN, Minn. - The Milan Standard published its final edition this week after a 103-year run, ending the community's claim to be the smallest Minnesota town with its own weekly newspaper. "We lost a piece of our identity," said Ron Anderson, mayor of the western Chippewa County town of 326 people. Publisher Leslie Ehrenberg of the Appleton Press, which has owned and published the Milan Standard...

The woman thrusting free newspapers into the hands of London commuters did not look as though she was on the frontline of a media revolution and a bitter battle between rival newspaper moguls. But yesterday's launch of London Lite, a new free evening paper for the capital, threatens to have repercussions across the country, where venerable evening titles are battling falling sales as younger...

(08-31) 04:00 PDT Washington -- U.S. military leaders in Baghdad have put out for bid a two-year, $20 million public-relations contract that calls for extensive monitoring of U.S. and Middle Eastern media in an effort to promote more positive coverage of news from Iraq. The contract calls for assembling a database of selected news stories and assessing their tone as part of a program to provide...