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Internet advertisers paid $800 million for bogus clicks on their marketing messages last year, shaking confidence in the industry and prompting many to reduce spending with Google, Yahoo and other Web sites, according to a study to be released today. The survey, by Outsell Inc., a market researcher in Burlingame, is one of the most detailed looks at the nagging, high-profile problem known as click...

PARIS — A media competition for minds and market share in the Middle East is evolving as a crowd of Western news organizations prepares to deliver headlines — and geopolitical views — in the language of the Koran. Backed by government financing, Germany's public international broadcaster, Deutsche Welle, is poised to beam as much as 24 hours of daily news programming in Arabic this autumn. France...

The Nippon Foundation Fellowships for Asian Public Intellectuals (API Fellowships) is inviting applications. The API Fellowship Programme is open to academics, researchers, media professionals, artists, creative writers, NGO activists, social workers, public servants and others with moral authority — who are committed to work for the betterment of society by applying their professional knowledge...

Happy Independence Day. In between grilling, lawn mowing and fireworks watching, take a few minutes to secure your right to know what your government is doing, a cornerstone of our freedom. The best way I can think of doing so in today's America is to go out and buy a copy of the New York Times. Or subscribe. But one way or another, pay for it, regularly. Right now, more than any other...

South African ex-Deputy President Jacob Zuma plans to sue local media for over 60m rand ($9m, £4.5m) over coverage of a rape trial in which he was acquitted. The trial ended in May. Mr Zuma was criticised for views he expressed in court on sex and HIV transmission. Mr Zuma has named newspapers, radio stations and political cartoonist Jonathan "Zapiro" Shapiro among those he intends to sue. Mr...

We all know cartoonists can get into big trouble for drawing the Prophet Muhammad, but cartoonists around the world regularly get in big trouble for drawing all kinds of things. One cartoonist in Iran is in prison for drawing a cockroach. Mana Neyestani drew a child talking to a cockroach; in the cartoon, a boy says the word "cockroach" in different ways, and the cockroach replies, "What?" in the...

Rajkot, July 3: WHILE the Rajkot head of Swadhyay Parivar, Manish Savshani, is in custody of Ahmedabad Police, two more persons from Rajkot district were detained on Monday for in a case of attack on the editor of an eveninger on May 5, 2005, allegedly by Swadhyay Parivar supporters. Raju Shah, editor of Saurashtra Aajtak, was reportedly attacked by three men for publishing an e-mail sent by Vinu...

When the Dainik Bhaskar launched its Writers for Readers promotion in 2005, the objective was to establish superiority of the newspaper based on its editorial content by renowned writers across subjects. The promotion ran in Dainik Bhaskar during 2005 and 2006 as in-newspaper advertising. CONTENTMENT: The ideas selected for the New Ideas To Engage Newspaper Readers and Promote Editoral Content...

The Centre, under severe criticism for its plans to regulate the electronic media in the country, has allayed fears over the contents of the proposed Broadcast Bill, and said that the government is committed to press freedom and that the legislation is meant to facilitate and develop the content of broadcasting in an orderly manner. A STING THAT STILL HURTS SOME: Tehelka chief, Tarun Tejpal (right...

Internal reorganisation, research and new technologies are the most important factors that need to be tackled to meet future demands of the newspaper industry, according to a just released report by Ifra, the world's leading association for newspaper and media publishing. Two-third of the newspaper industry respondents interviewed by Ifra felt so. WHERE NEWS: These findings have been reported in...