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Cologne - A German media group said Sunday it was acquiring a one-quarter stake in a major Israeli daily newspaper, Haaretz, in an investment worth 25 million euros (36 million dollars). Haaretz, which is editorally left of centre and is Israel's third-biggest daily in circulation terms, described the alliance with family-controlled M DuMont Schauberg as based on 'shared values.' DuMont Schauberg...

A lot has changed for women in the past 100 years. Corsets have gone out of style, glass ceilings have shattered and voting rights are a reality. But when it comes to sports journalism, women are still lagging behind. n June, the Institute for Diversity and Ethics in Sports at the University of Central Florida released the results of a diversity study commissioned by the Associated Press Sports...

HAMBURG: A few days before he planted his head into the chest of the Italian defender Marco Materazzi in the World Cup final, ensuring an inglorious exit to an otherwise stellar soccer career, Zinédine Zidane stepped out onto the balcony of his Berlin hotel and had a smoke. From an office building nearby, someone whipped out a camera phone and took a shot. A couple of days later, the photo, in all...

The Internet is rapidly changing the rules of advertising — but using naked people to sell clothes? A French clothier is testing the limits of the maxim that sex sells with online commercials that use hard-core pornography to hawk $100 T-shirts. The campaign by Shai clothing depicts French porn stars frolicking on a circular bed, clothed, at least initially, in the brand's latest styles. Shai's...

The Government issued a stern warning to the media not to put the probe into the alleged terror plot at risk by publishing information about suspects. In a joint statement, Home Secretary John Reid and Attorney General Lord Goldsmith called for "considerable restraint" to avoid prejudicing any future trials. It singled out the use of photographs and speculation over individuals' links and...

The mainstream media has had a hard time lately in its coverage of the Israel-Hezbollah war, as the unofficial media—the bloggers—have been busy pointing out. The sharp-eyed blogger Charles Johnson spotted how a Reuters photo showing burning buildings had been photoshopped. The smoke rising from a damaged building, and the building itself, were copied over the photo—making the result of Israeli...

The European Court of Human Rights ruled Thursday that Ukraine violated the press freedom rights of a newspaper editor convicted in 2001 on criminal defamation charges stemming from a series of stories about two government officials, Committee to Protect Journalists said on its website Friday. The court found that Oleg Lyashko, former editor of the independent Kiev weekly Polityka, reported on...

THE teenage lifestyle magazine market is in “serious decline”, with ABC results next week expected to reveal a significant fall in circulation numbers, according to industry sources. The findings will be released just days after Emap, the media group, closed Sneak, the teenage celebrity gossip magazine, conceding that teenagers were now getting their showbiz news on the internet. Smash Hits...

(RSF/IFEX) - Reporters Without Borders has voiced outrage at an attack on Indian journalist D.N. Mohanty, who was beaten unconscious in his home in the Bangladeshi capital of Dhaka on 31 July 2006, and at the attempts of both Bangladeshi and Indian authorities to hush up the case. "In view of the repeated attacks against journalists in Bangladesh, the authorities ought to seriously consider the...

New York, August 11, 2006—Colombian radio host Milton Fabián Sánchez was gunned down on Wednesday night outside his home in Yumbo, in the southwestern Valle del Cauca province. The Committee to Protect Journalists is investigating whether there is a connection between the murder and Sánchez’ work. A masked assailant shot Sánchez three times in the face at 9:45 p.m., the journalist’s colleague...