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KARACHI: A journalist working with a private television news channel has gone missing since March while filming a military base used by US forces, his company said on Wednesday. The whereabouts of Mukesh Rupeta remained unknown since March when he was arrested by police for filming Shahbaz Air Base in southern Jacobabad, a Geo television spokesman said in a statement. “The only available report...

NEW YORK, June 22 (Reuters) - They call it the World Wide Web, but newspapers trying to grow online audiences are focusing on deeper local coverage to build revenue. The Internet gives them tools to attract new customers, which leads to a rise in advertising, said executives at the Mid-Year Media Review conference in New York this week. To do so, newspapers have had to do more than publish the...

PESHAWAR: The widow of murdered tribal journalist, Hayatullah Khan, has alleged that her husband was “trapped” by the country’s secret services. “One intelligence agent called Hayatullah to file a story and gave him the pictures of a Hellfire missile used to attack a compound in the tribal areas to expose the US atrocities against Muslims,” Mehrunisa, Hayatullah’s widow, said while talking to the...

The information and broadcasting ministry, since the beginning of this year, has cleared 13 proposals for Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in media and is examining another 22 proposals. There have been eight proposals for FDI in the news and current affairs media including Mid-Day Multimedia Ltd, Business India Publications Ltd, Deccan Chronicle Holdings Ltd, Dhara Prakashan Pvt Ltd, Writers &...

The newspaper industry in Asia remains unaffected by the problems of a stagnating market and declining circulation that have been plaguing the newspaper industry in the West. In fact, the industry is expected to grow in the next 5-10 years, according to a just-released report by Ifra, the world's leading association for newspaper and media publishing. In most Asian countries, advertising accounts...

New York—Nearly six in 10 executives surveyed say an advertisement in a b-to-b magazine prompted them to purchase or recommend the purchase of a product or service, according to new research released Wednesday by American Business Media. ABM commissioned Harris Interactive to research how media “end-users” (readers, event attendees and online participants) use business media in their decision...

The New York Times plans to sell advertisements on the front of its Business Day section starting in two weeks, Bill Keller, the paper's executive editor, said yesterday. The ads are expected to sell at a premium rate because of the prominent showcase the front of the section affords. They will appear in a strip along the bottom of the page. The change comes as The Times, along with other...

(CJES/IFEX) - MOSCOW, June 20 (Interfax) - The Center for Journalism in Extreme Situations (CJES) and the Russian Union of Journalists (RUJ) have called for a number of Criminal Code articles that carry punishment for inappropriate performance of journalistic duties to be abolished. "It is hard to find another country on the map of the world that would as frequently apply Criminal Code articles...

MIAMI, Florida (June 20, 2006) - The Inter American Press Association (IAPA) said today it is extremely concerned at the introduction of a draft bill to reform the Penal Code in Panama, saying it would drastically stiffen penalties for journalists found guilty of libel or defamation - an action in sharp contrast to the progress in the area of press freedom that President Martín Torrijos has been...

Guwahati: Veteran journalist and the former Editor of The Assam Tribune, Satis Chandra Kakoti, died at his residence here on Monday night. He was 94 and is survived by two sons and four daughters. Mr. Kakoti began his career in 1937 and served as the Guwahati Correspondent of Hindustan Standard, Ananda Bazar Patrika and the Press Trust of India. He joined The Assam Tribune as Assistant Editor in...