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UNITED NATIONS, Aug. 30 (UPI) -- The International Criminal Tribunal for the Former Yugoslavia has found a Croatian journalist in contempt for publishing sealed documents. The Hague-based tribunal fined Josip Jovic, a former editor-in-chief of the Croatian daily newspaper Slobodna Dalmacija, $25,612, said a judgment issued Wednesday. In a series of articles appearing in November and December 2000...

The 15-year-old brother of a BBC reporter has been killed in Pakistan's tribal region of South Waziristan. Taimur Khan, brother of Dilawar Khan Wazir, was found with severe head wounds in the town of Wana on Wednesday after going missing on Tuesday night. He later succumbed to his injuries in hospital. Officials say it is not clear who carried out the attack or why. The Khans' house was targeted...

Despite the news media's fascination with the so-called blogosphere, a national survey has found that only about one in eight American adults currently uses Internet blogs to get news and information. But these Web logs - personal diaries and observations posted on easy-to-update Internet Web pages in a process called "blogging" - are much more popular among certain demographic groups. A survey of...

Mushrooming Television-training academies, which churn out TV journalists with shaky credentials, are rather like the kerb-side 'speedily speaking English teaching' schools whose alumni speak Inzamam-ul-Haq's English. That is why one hears of young enthusiastic journalists that BBC's Paul Donahar spoke about some years ago. Donahar described a young journalist chasing the former Home Minister...

New York, August 30, 2006—The Committee to Protect Journalists welcomes the release today of Sri Lankan radio producer Nadaraja Guruparan, who was abducted by gunmen in the capital, Colombo, early Tuesday. Guruparan said he was held for about 20 hours by kidnappers who had forced him out of his car as he drove to work at the privately owned Tamil-language radio station Sooriyan, or Sun FM...

NEW YORK -- The New York Times' Web site is blocking British readers from a news article detailing the investigation into the recent airline terror plot, turning its Internet ad-targeting technology into a means of complying with U.K. laws. "We had clear legal advice that publication in the U.K. might run afoul of their law," Times spokeswoman Diane McNulty said Tuesday. "It's a country that doesn...

TEHRAN -- An Iranian reformist journalist, Issa Saharkhiz, has been handed a four-year jail term for "publishing lies and libel," the student news agency ISNA reported Monday. "The court has sentenced Saharkhiz to four years in prison and a five year ban from press activities," a judiciary official, Hossein Hosseinian, was quoted as saying. "The licenses of his monthly, Aftab (sunshine), and his...

New York, August 29, 2006—The Committee to Protect Journalists is deeply concerned by reports that veteran Sri Lankan journalist Nadarajah Guruparan is missing and feared abducted in Colombo today. The Free Media Movement, a local press group, reported that Guruparan, a producer, left for work at the privately owned Tamil-language radio station Sooriyan, or Sun FM, around 4 a.m. Guruparan’s family...

NEW YORK - This fall, teens who want the 411 on skinny jeans will have fewer teen monthly fashion bibles to flip through. But the moves by Elle Girl and Teen People to pull the plug on their publications and focus on their Web sites don't seem to bother 14-year-old Devon Brodsky. "There are so many other ways to read about fashion," said the Harrison, N.Y. resident. Aside from Teen Vogue, Brodsky...

The difficulties of hiring people who know how to create, sell and measure internet advertising are limiting the pace at which marketers can shift money from traditional media to hot web properties such as MySpace, YouTube and other video sites. According to advertising and media industry executives, one of the biggest obstacles towards even more rapid growth in the online advertising industry –...