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More than two-thirds of the newspaper companies worldwide expect to remain a predominantly newspaper publisher in the near future, according to a just released report by Ifra, the world's leading association for newspaper and media publishing. HERE AND NOW: The three-year "Where News?" project is being funded with more than a million Euro, signalling how serious the association's more than 3000...

AFTER a decade of denial, big media and marketers have finally accepted that the way consumers absorb information and entertainment has changed. Their responses to how consumers perceive, retain and respond to brands are reshaping media. Companies that once relied on regulation or engineering smarts for their edge are learning the ways of integrated marketing across many platforms. From iPod to...

New York, June 20, 2006—Members of the board of the press freedom advocacy organization the Committee to Protect Journalists elected Joel Simon executive director today. CPJ Chairman Paul Steiger said Simon will bring “energy, intelligence and experience to CPJ and journalists around the world at this critical time for press freedom.” Simon worked as a journalist in California and Latin America...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. newspaper publishers on Tuesday said growth at their Internet divisions would at last become a key contributor to revenue, helping to fill a profit shortfall at their traditional print operations. Many publishers began experimenting with the Internet in the 1990s when readers started moving online to get their news. Though those operations have grown quickly, they still...

Last month, Bennett Haselton, the founder of Peacefire.org, a Web site that promotes open access on the Internet, got an e-mail message from a Los Angeles Times reporter who was writing an article about online censorship. The reporter was unable, from The Times's newsroom, to access Mr. Haselton's site, which also offers instructions on how to get around software installed to block Web site access...

Eleven years ago, after working only a few months as the Boston Globe ombudsman, I attended my First news ombudsmen convention in Fort Worth, Texas. While I was still relatively bright-eyed and bushy-tailed, I did notice that several of my colleagues who had spent years in ombudsmanship had something of a worn, world-weary look about them. One of them pulled me aside, and, noticing my rookie...

One of several journalists sent packing by U.S. military authorities at Guantanamo Naval Base last week has come out with her story of what happened when she and others were forced to leave. Carol J. Williams of The Los Angeles Times wrote in Sunday morning’s edition of the newspaper. The reporter complained of what she called “a Pentagon power play that muzzles already reluctant sources and an...

ABQ Zawya, the leading Middle East business information company, and Dow Jones Newswires, the world’s leading provider of real-time financial news has launched the Zawya Dow Jones News Service, an English- and Arabic-language news service covering the Middle East’s financial markets. The Zawya Dow Jones News Service combines Zawya’s unrivalled information resources and the reporting expertise of...

In a major restructuring exercise, Times Internet Ltd (TIL) has promoted some of its key senior executives as well as reshuffled some responsibilities. Informed sources aver that Dinesh Wadhawan, who joined as CEO a few months ago, effected these changes to check the high attrition rate that TIL has been facing in recent times. Mohit Hira, previously VP-Marketing, has been promoted as Director...

It's fatally easy for U.S. journalists, faced with sinking circulation numbers and what seems like public indifference – if not downright hostility – to our watchdog role in a free and democratic society, to feel like divers abandoned in shark-infested open water. But to tell the truth – and good journalists are nothing if not truth-tellers – the future of our industry just blew through North...