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King Gyanendra and Maoist rebel leader Prachanda, the instigators of many killings, attacks and arrests of journalists, were removed today from the Reporters Without Borders list of Press Freedom Predators because the king has ceded power to parliament and government, and Prachanda signed a political accord with Prime Minister Girija Prasad Koirala on 16 June undertaking to respect democracy and...

Are you a Plum – a pregnant woman 35 or older – or do you think Pink, by making your career a lifestyle? If you’re a business-owning, cookie-baking fashionista who lives in a bungalow and likes to spend the weekend traveling with your dog or container-gardening with your kids, there’s at least one magazine that caters to you. Or more likely, a dozen. And if you’re a man … well, there’s plenty for...

WASHINGTON, June 21 (Reuters) - The U.S. Federal Communications Commission on Wednesday will embark on a new attempt to revamp media ownership restrictions and the battle lines over whether to allow more consolidation are already being drawn. FCC Chairman Kevin Martin has long advocated lifting a 1975 restriction preventing a company from owning a newspaper as well as a radio or television station...

NEW YORK -- Led by surging growth in the online sector, global entertainment and media will expand into a $1.83 trillion industry in 2010, up from an estimated $1.33 trillion last year, making for a compound annual growth rate of 6.6%, according to an annual study from PricewaterhouseCoopers. Consumer/end-user spending gains will outpace advertising growth as PwC estimates compound annual...

Nearly three-quarters of newspaper website users in the United States also read the daily's printed edition. In fact, a recent study has revealed, the percentage of such individuals has varied very little in the last five years. ER, WHERE ARE THE SUBSCRIBERS? Daily newspaper boxes line the sidewalk in downtown Ottawa. Across the border in the United States in 2005, 6 per cent of the users...

New York, June 21, 2006—The Committee to Protect Journalists condemns the arrests of Ogulsapar Muradova, an Ashgabat-based correspondent for Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL), and her three children. Muradova, arrested on Sunday, is being held without charge at Ashgabat Interior Ministry (MVR) headquarters. Her three adult children—Maral, Berdy and Sona—were taken into custody on Monday...

Abuja, Nigeria, 06/20 - The Nigerian Navy Sunday confirmed the release of an American journalist, who was arrested by naval personnel Friday for photographing an oil platform in Nigeria`s oil-producing Niger Delta region without permission. Though Nigerian Navy spokesman, Capt. Obi Medani, said the journalist, whom he did not identify by name, works for Reuters news agency, other reports...

The Information and and Broadcasting Ministry (I&B Ministry) has issued 150 show cause notices in the last two years to different television channels for violation of programme and advertising codes. Of these, six television channels, NDTV India, Sahara One, Star One, Fashion TV, India TV and Cine World, have been warned by the ministry mostly. The ministry has issued a warning to these channels...

The online offensive of US newspapers to attract younger audiences may not be working after all – the average visitor to newspaper websites, in fact, has grown progressively older in the last five years. The median age of total visitors to newspaper websites, a survey has found, in 2005 was around 42 years. OLD FUSION: August Woerner, an 80-year-old World War II veteran spend lots of time on the...

(RSF/IFEX) - Reporters Without Borders has condemned a 13,500-euro sentence against blogger Roberto Mancini in fines, damages and costs imposed by a court in Val d'Aosta, in northern Italy on 26 May 2006, after local journalists brought forward a defamation suit. Mancini, 59, is suspected of creating a US-hosted blog in 2005 - Il Bolscevicostanco ( http://www.ilbolscevicostanco.blogspot.com )...