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For a country that loves cricket, the findings may come as a surprise. More newsprint was spent promoting the soccer World Cup this year, than on traditional favourite, cricket. Perhaps the hype explains why more and more non-soccer lovers are staying up late to watch the games. As per a survey, the FIFA 2006 coverage in the print media notched 185 ccms (column cms in thousands), a figure 3 times...

The human rights watchdog Amnesty International on Tuesday presented two Russian human rights activists and journalists with an award for their work in Chechnya and elsewhere in the North Caucasus. The “Journalism Under Threat” prize was awarded during a ceremony in London to Stanislav Dmitriyevsky and Oksana Chelysheva, both representing the Russian-Chechen Friendship Society, Radio Free Europe...

CANBERRA: Plans to relax media ownership laws in Australia could be delayed after News Corp Chairman Rupert Murdoch urged Australian Prime Minister John Howard to dump the idea, analysts said. Australia is considering relaxing foreign ownership and cross-media ownership rules for Australian media, while ruling out allocating new free-to-air television licences. But Murdoch, Australia's biggest...

MANY READERS have been sharply critical of our decision to publish an article Friday on the U.S. Treasury Department's program to secretly monitor worldwide money transfers in an effort to track terrorist financing. They have sent me sincere and powerful expressions of their disappointment in our newspaper, and they deserve an equally thoughtful and honest response. The decision to publish this...

Not much has survived 10 years on the internet, so Slate magazine's celebration of that milestone this month sparked self-congratulation, criticism and much soul-searching about the future of old and new media. Slate, a news magazine website that mixes humor and political and social commentary, has plenty of critics, the loudest of whom were invited to air their views online. This prompted...

Back in the day -- that is, before the year 2001 -- Colorado State University used the U.S. Postal Service, faxes and e-mail to dispatch William Gray's seasonal hurricane predictions to reporters. Now consider the recently released 2006 report he co-authored: Just a few clicks from the university's home page on the Web, it linked to five downloadable audio and video interviews with Gray, professor...

ABUJA (Reuters) - A Nigerian court charged two journalists with sedition on Tuesday over stories critical of a new presidential jet, in what one of the men's employers called an assault on democracy in Africa's most populous nation. Gbenga Arulegba, presenter of a political show on African Independent Television (AIT), and Rotimi Durojaiye of the Daily Independent newspaper, risk two years in jail...

SAN FRANCISCO (Business 2.0 Magazine) -- Nielsen's famous TV ratings are getting a serious shakeup - one that people in the advertising industry say is long overdue. While Nielsen has already made partial moves to the electronic measurement of TV audiences in the largest television markets, in smaller cities - which make up more than half of the U.S. population - it still depends on household...

New York, June 27, 2006—The Committee to Protect Journalists is deeply concerned about Israeli government restrictions on journalists attempting to report from the Gaza Strip. The Israel Defense Forces announced on Monday that Israeli passport holders and dual nationals would be prohibited from entering Gaza. “Due to the current security assessments journalists with Israeli citizenship or those...

The media boom has led to mushrooming of educational institutes that promise to cater to the 'rising demand for journalists'. At a time when DU cut-offs are high, students are leaving no stone unturned to get a mass communication or journalism course for an edge over others. Even as the question of market-driven need giving rise to media institutes is being debated there seems to be a herd...