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It is a tough summer to be a UK media chief executive: in the past month SMG's Andrew Flanagan and ITV's Charles Allen have both departed stage left, pursued by shareholders. Flanagan and Allen, as their singing namesakes once put it, were forced to "run rabbit run" after failing to reverse their companies' share price decline. Now investors, dissatisfied by lamentable share price performance...

Fiji media organisations have joined forces to fight the Broadcast Licensing Bill which will give control of radio and television broadcasting to the government. The Fiji Sun reports that the Bill has sparked fury and calls have been made not to curtail the media’s watchdog function and leave issues of content to the Fiji Media Council. The council chairman, Daryl Tarte, says it had not been...

Judge, Speedy Trial Tribunal IV of Dhaka yesterday awarded death sentence to three accused including the wife of the deceased in the journalist Nabil Abdul Latif murder case of Keraniganj, Dhaka. The fugitive convicts are wife of the victim Farhana Sultana Kanak, Shahidul Islam Pappu and Nirzon Mostakin. The victim, aged about 26, was a cultural reporter the New Age. Convicts Mostakin and Pappu...

AKRON, Ohio (AP) -- The Akron Beacon Journal laid off 40 newsroom employees -- 25 percent of that staff -- on Tuesday and will cut jobs in all of its divisions over the next three weeks, citing a decline in revenue. The cuts include 29 full-time workers and leave the newsroom with 120 employees. Reporters, managers, photographers, copy editors, clerks and a librarian were among those laid off...

Newspapers themselves have been grabbing the headlines in past weeks, as the country's largest media houses race to unveil dailies. Since Icelandic investment firm Dagsbrún announced its plans in the spring to release its free daily newspaper Nyhedsavisen, the ground has been shifting under the media landscape. The media house responsible for Jyllands-Posten and Politiken daily newspapers followed...

NAIROBI, Aug 21 (Reuters) - A global media watchdog criticised Tanzania's government on Monday, saying it had threatened to deport a local journalist for his role in a documentary linking its fish exports with arms trafficking. Reporters Without Borders said Richard Mgamba, who works for the independent daily The Citizen, was targeted for helping Austrian filmmaker Hubert Sauper shoot "Darwin's...

New Delhi, Aug 21. (UNI): The sectors like Financial Services, Media and IT are likely to continue facing the immense challenge of hiring, training and retaining the staff, on account of employee aspirations, coupled with expansion in the economy, in the next few years. An Assocham Eco Pulse (AEP) study of about 100 corporate firms, released here on Sunday, has reflected that the employees in...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. newsstands sold fewer magazines in the first half of 2006 compared with a year ago, data showed on Monday, as some markets were saturated with too many offerings while others had to compete with the Web. Newsstand, or "single-copy," sales of magazines fell more than 4 percent to about 48.7 million copies in the first half of 2006, according to preliminary figures provided...

Where are the new magazines? Following a flurry of major launches last year--among them, Condé Nast's Domino, Cookie and Men's Vogue, Rodale's Women’s Health, Hearst Magazines' Quick & Simple and Weekend, and Northern and Shell's British import OK!--publishers have put the brakes on developing new titles, focusing instead on growing their established brands. A handful of high-profile startups that...

LONDON - Newspapers, rather than websites and blogs, are seen as the most trustworthy source of information, according to a survey by interactive marketing firm Telecom Express. The report finds that traditional media brands are far more trusted than websites or blogs, with papers receiving 63% of the vote, TV topping the poll with 66% and just 36% for websites. Radio received 55% backing, while...