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For the fifth time this year, CNN has been confirmed as the leading international news channel by an independent industry survey, with this month’s newly released 2006 EMS (European Media & Marketing) Survey data. Additionally, CNN is the market leader in serving the audience’s changing consumption habits through both traditional and new media, leading all channels in combined television and...

Paris, Jun 18 (EFE).- Editor-in-chief Jose Joaquin Tovar of the Venezuelan weekly Ahora was gunned down on the weekend in Caracas, the Paris-based Reporters Without Borders said Sunday, adding that the killing might be linked to his journalistic stance critical of both the Hugo Chavez government and the opposition. The non-governmental organization, known as RSF for its initials in French, said in...

There is a direct correlation between terrorist attacks and media coverage, two economists have contended. Their conclusion, contained in the study entitled Blood and Ink: The Common-Interest-Game Between Terrorists and the Media, is that the relationship between terrorists and the media is symbiotic. 9/11: Bruno S Frey and Dominic Rohner have argued coverage caused more attacks, and attacks...

News stories about medical research, often based on initial findings presented at professional conferences, frequently omit basic facts about the study and fail to highlight important limitations, researchers have found. Such omissions can mislead the public and distort the actual significance of the research. HAS IT BEEN PUBLISHED: In this photo released by the University of Maastricht's Medical...

Most advertising industry leaders in the US believe that Fortune 500 companies are "generally behind the curve when it comes to online ad strategy." There is also a wariness of advertising executives regarding their own ability to keep pace with the changing digital environment. Fifty-eight per cent feel that they personally are "struggling simply to manage existing online efforts, let alone stay...

The “missing” journalist from the tribal areas, Hayatullah Khan Dawar, has been murdered. His body was found on Friday, seven months after his kidnapping from the mountains about six kilometres south of the town of Mir Ali in North Waziristan Agency. Mr Dawar is the third journalist to be assassinated in the tribal areas since the operation began there, the earlier two having been killed in Wana...

Wikipedia is the online encyclopedia that "anyone can edit." Unless you want to edit the entries on Albert Einstein, human rights in China or Christina Aguilera. Wikipedia's come-one, come-all invitation to write and edit articles, and the surprisingly successful results, have captured the public imagination. But it is not the experiment in freewheeling collective creativity it might seem to be...

SAN FRANCISCO -- By almost any measure, Craigslist is a phenomenal success. It is the seventh-most-popular Web site in the world, according to the people who measure these things. The free online-classifieds site has become the nightmare of newspaper executives everywhere it launches a list. While it does not release financial statements, no one doubts -- and its chief executive does not dispute -...

The 30 or so people who will take their desks next January in Sheridan College's new Canadian Journalism for Internationally Trained Writers program don't fit the college-student image. Many will be middle-aged, with worry lines. Some will have done prison time. All will speak with accents and carry themselves, well, as the seasoned journalists they were in previous lives -- influential...

Lagos, Nigeria, 06/17 - Detained journalist of Nigeria`s foremost independent television station, African Independent Television (AIT), has been freed and asked to report back to the State Security Service (SSS) 19 June, the local press reported Friday. Gbenga Aruleba, presenter of the weekday show "Focus Nigeria" on AIT, was arrested Wednesday by SSS operatives reportedly over Tuesday`s edition...