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When Time, Inc.'s Teen People shuts down its print edition this September and moves online for good, it will be migrating to where an increasing number of teens are spending their time. But Teen People online will be facing a whole new set of challenges in attracting the young set, in some ways more daunting than those it faced competing for their attention in print. True, teens spend an...

(RSF/IFEX) - Reporters Without Borders has said it was "very shocked" by the murder of French journalist Grégoire de Bourgues at his home in Almaty on 2 August 2006 and called for an immediate investigation. De Bourgues, 24, had been in Kazakhstan since 22 April as an editorial adviser for an Athens-based firm called SML Strategic Media, which had sent him there for three months to do an...

YAHOO IS DELIVERING A DRUBBING to its main competitors in the general news arena, according to a study released Monday by comScore Media Metrix. Yahoo News was the undisputed leader in absolute terms--attracting almost 31.2 million unique visitors in June--and also in growth, showing 13 percent growth on a year-over-year basis. The next-biggest general news site, MSNBC, slid 14 percent from 27.33...

BAGHDAD, Iraq — Two Iraqi journalists have been killed in separate incidents in Baghdad, police said Tuesday. Mohammed Abbas Hamad, 28, a journalist for the Shiite-owned newspaper Al-Bayinnah Al-Jadida, was shot by gunmen at he left his home Monday in the Adil section of western Baghdad, police Lt. Mohammed Khayoun said. Late Monday, police found the bullet-riddled body of freelance journalist...

Several journalists in Kirkuk have accused American and Iraqi security forces of assaulting them and their crews as they tried to report on the worsening security situation in the northern city. In at least six separate incidents since June, Iraqi reporters said they had been physically beaten, had their equipment confiscated and been falsely accused of "terrorism". Senior US and Iraqi military...

WASHINGTON – Since its arrival on the scene, the citizen journalist revolution that is so often heralded as the dawning of a new age has faced one serious and nagging problem. Blogging, in and of itself, is not hard. It is a fairly simple equation of software plus a little time plus, probably, a bit of attitude - with maybe a smattering of reporting thrown in for good measure. But reporting and...

A charge that ex-Economic Development Minister Farhad Aliyev ordered the killing of journalist Elmar Huseynov has unleashed fresh controversy about the government’s 17-month-long murder investigation. Friends and relatives of the slain editor suspect that the accusation is designed to strengthen the government’s case against Aliyev, who was imprisoned last year for allegedly plotting a coup. The...

Reuters has fired Lebanese freelance photographer Adnan Hajj after he transmitted at least two photographs from Lebanon that were doctored to make Israeli attacks seem more dramatic. The news agency said Monday it is investigating Hajj's other work and has withdrawn all of Hajj's photos, about 920 images, from its archives as a precaution. Hajj's career with Reuters unraveled Saturday after...

Some of the nation's largest companies were counted last year by the government as small businesses for contracting purposes, inflating the Bush administration's record of help to small companies. Media companies cited as small businesses included The New York Times Co., USA Today International Corp., Bloomberg LP and the Public Broadcasting Service, according to data the administration gave...

NEW YORK: A new report from the Bivings Group finds that newspaper publishers are aggressively focusing their efforts on the Internet, rather than trying to compete with it. The study, which focused on 100 American newspapers, found that newspaper publishers were largely forward-thinking in their approach to the Web, and have been taking advantage of online features like podcasts, blogs, and RSS...