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Indonesia is far from unique in being a country in which journalists are routinely influenced by their sources or the subjects of their stories. Everywhere in the world, people have a vested interest in seeing that stories are reported in a particular way, or even reported at all. Everywhere in the world, writers and editors are susceptible to persuasion, whether it is overt or subtle. A shopping...

When Nokia Corp. released its camera smartphone last fall, the marketing campaign cut back on news releases and flashy ads. Instead, the company sent sample products to 50 tech-savvy amateur bloggers with a passion for mobile phones. The tactic paid off, as word spread online about the N-series phone, driving up sales and contributing to a 43 percent profit boost for Nokia last quarter. "So many...

French journalist was found dead on August 2 in the apartment he was renting in Almaty, the former capital of Kazakhstan, the Radio Liberty reported quoting the country’s Foreign Ministry statement. Spokesman Ilyas Omarov said the reporter, whom he identified as Gregoire Debourgues, was working for a media consultancy group and preparing a report on Kazakhstan for the U.S. “Foreign Affairs”...

MUMBAI, AUGUST 4: Media firms face proposed changes to broadcasting rules that could limit cross-holdings and crimp consolidation in the world's third-largest cable TV market. The bill, likely to be delayed as broadcasters lobby the government for changes, would set limits on scale and expansion and bring the $3.6 billion television industry under one regulator responsible for controlling content...

Google has agreed to pay the Associated Press for use of its news stories and pictures, according to a statement released by the two companies on Wednesday. The deal settles a dispute between Google and the AP and has implications for a lawsuit Google is facing from the Paris-based Agence France Presse news agency, which sued the search powerhouse last year for allegedly infringing its copyrights...

The government is considering expanding media law to regulate Internet companies publishing news stories on their Web sites, officials at the Ministry of Culture and Tourism said. There has been a lengthy debate among Internet companies and print media over the boundaries of Web-based journalism, with the offline news outlets demanding their online rivals should be bound by the same legal...

AITARUN, Lebanon - We reached this demolished village by following a bulldozer with a Hezbollah driver plowing away the rubble blocking the road. Minutes after our convoy of five press cars rolled into town, women, children, elderly men and disabled people began emerging from the ruins, pleading for escape from the bombing. Their desperation to flee the war zone as the clock ticked down on Israel...

New York, August 2, 2006—The Committee to Protect Journalists deplores the continued harassment of Nosir Zokirov, a former correspondent for the Uzbek service of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) who has already served six months in prison on a specious charge of insulting a security officer. President Islam Karimov’s regime has continued persecuting Zokirov and his family since the...

Kanpur-based publishing house Jagran Prakashan's plans to enter the English newspaper segment have once again been thwarted. Its talks with Delhi-based publication, the Pioneer, hit a roadblock with the Pioneer management refusing to part with the controlling stake to Jagran. Last year, Rs 480-crore Jagran Group, whose flagship brand is Dainik Jagran, was in talks for buying an equity stake in The...

A group of journalists traveling together in southern Lebanon, including several photographers, helped rescue trapped civilians this week in two towns damaged by Israeli missiles. "[There were] far too many old people and children who simply couldn't make it across the rubble," said Polaris photographer Timothy Fadek, who helped rescue people at both scenes. "We simply carried them on our backs."...