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The Japanese version of South Korean Internet news service OhmyNews was launched Monday, featuring articles from "citizen reporters" on topics ranging from politics to entertainment. "If our network grows to feature tens of thousands of citizen reporters, it could help shed light on various problems and issues that need to be addressed in Japan," said Shuntaro Torigoe, editor in chief of the...

Korean Internet companies picked the boom of online advertising and increasing overseas sales of Korean-made online services as the two biggest issues of 2005. In a year-end report, the Korea Internet Corporations Association said that the Internet is encroaching on traditional newspaper, magazine and radio-television advertising coverage, accounting for almost 10 percent of the market. Online...

Reuters has urged the US military to investigate the killing of one of its journalists by American troops in Baghdad a year ago. An independent inquiry commissioned by Reuters concluded that the soldiers' shooting of television soundman Waleed Khaled on August 28 last year had appeared "unlawful". KILLED IN COLD BLOOD: The uncle (left) and father of Reuters journalist, Waleed Khaled, cry over his...

Darfur is in the news finally. And all for the wrong reasons. The genocide which remained out of the headlines primarily in the US media, is now generating more than 5,000 results on Google news following the arrest of an American Pulitzer-winning journalist on charges of spying. TRYING TO FIND A WAY OUT: Paul Salopek (C), a US writer for National Geographic magazine, talks with unidentified...

New York, August 29, 2006—An unidentified assailant shot and killed Venezuelan columnist Jesús Rafael Flores Rojas last week in front of his home in El Tigre in southwestern Anzoátegui province. The Committee to Protect Journalists is investigating whether Flores’ murder is related to his journalistic work. Flores, known locally as “El Pavo Flores,” was editorial coordinator of the Anzoátegui...

Eight prominent journalists convened in a town hall meeting at the Jerusalem YMCA Monday night in the first public forum seriously tackling some of the most difficult questions that have arisen over the media's coverage of the second Lebanon War. Bluntly responding to the interrogations of Media Line Jerusalem Bureau Chief David Harris, the journalists, including Steven Erlanger of The New York...

WASHINGTON - The only thing my wife loves more than picking through someone else’s junk at a garage sale is selling her junk at her own garage sale. Unfortunately, her idea of holding a garage sale consists primarily of me dragging her junk — often items she purchased in someone else’s garage — into our driveway. Invariably, this ends with her standing guard all day, pocketing $42.25 and me...

BATON ROUGE – The first anniversary of hurricane Katrina has once again attracted an army of journalists to New Orleans, site of the worst natural disaster in American history. While Tuesday's anniversary promises to bring even more attention to one of the most documented events in national journalism, many residents of the flood- ravaged Crescent City continue to insist that reporters are missing...

(WMR) Aug. 28, 2006 -- SPECIAL REPORT FROM EUROPE. Information visas (I-Visa) -- a Bush administration method for controlling the foreign media's coverage of the United States. You're a foreign journalist and you want to visit the United States to cover a story. If you think it is as easy as hopping on an airplane, even if you are a citizen or resident of a visa-waiver country, guess again...

TEHRAN (Reuters) - The managing director of an Iranian daily has been acquitted of insulting Iran's Azeri minority, four months after the newspaper was banned for a cartoon that sparked protests, an official said on Monday. But in a separate case, the managing editor of a monthly publication was jailed for four years after being convicted of publishing articles against the constitution, libeling...