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ONLINE'S SHARE OF U.S. MEASURED media spending is poised to grow to 12 percent in 2006--up from just 10 percent a year ago, projects Madison Avenue's leading source for ad tracking data. TNS Media Intelligence, which Tuesday released a mid-year update of its annual advertising outlook, revised spending estimates for most media downward, but nudged the Internet's ad outlook up considerably from...

It prides itself on being France's mouthpiece of the free-thinking left, an irreverent daily founded in the wake of the 1968 student revolt by Maoist luminaries and Jean-Paul Sartre. But the French newspaper Libération plunged into its own existential crisis yesterday after the editor was asked to leave, and the paper which once boasted that it cared nothing about money found its future on the...

New York, June 14, 2006—The Committee to Protect Journalists welcomes the release today of Mohamed Benchicou, publisher of a newspaper critical of the Algerian government, who was jailed two years ago for allegedly violating currency regulations. “We are relieved that our colleague Mohamed Benchicou is once again a free man, but his release doesn’t alter the fact that he spent two years in prison...

Yahoo News, one of the world’s most popular news aggregation sites, plans to launch a citizen video-journalist news service at the end of June that will act as a collection and publication site for news videos generated by the public. Sources involved in discussions with Yahoo News said the project, which has been in development for months, will introduce an upload capability that will take the PC...

A journalist was ambushed and stoned by attackers who left him fatally injured in the rural area of Takalghat near Nagpur in Maharashtra state, central India, on 8 June 2006. Aran Narayan Dekate died in hospital two days later. Fellow journalists in Nagpur told Reporters Without Borders that his death was very likely to be linked to articles he wrote in the Marathi-language regional daily Tarun...

NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) - The media business is getting hit by massive technological change, and executives from top media companies said industry executives had better get used to it. "The challenge is pretty clear. It's the digital transition. We would like to say we look at it as an opportunity. Every single part of our business is going through extraordinary technological change," Peter...

More than two thirds of media professionals are graduates according to new research. 69% of people working in the media have a degree compared to 16% of the UK workforce[1] as a whole. 44% are media graduates and 56% have a degree in other subjects. Almost 7000 people working in the media participated in the survey by Skillset, the Sector Skills Council for the audio visual industries which...

KABUL -- As a cameraman in the Afghan parliament, Omid Yakmanish thought he had a routine job, until he was attacked and threatened with death. It began when he filmed a parliamentary brawl and an attempted attack on a female MP last month. His footage was an embarrassment to many politicians, and the reaction was swift and violent. First he was confronted and slapped by an MP who had once been a...

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - For the past decade, newspapers have seen their help-wanted advertising under siege from online rivals. Now, as the Internet begins to eat into automotive and real estate classifieds as well, newspapers are fighting back. Classified advertising accounts for more than a third of revenue at newspapers, which until recently didn't want to accept that advertisers are increasing...

The fact that RSS feeds are immune to the spam filters that sometimes plague email newsletters does not make them a better distribution medium for marketing communications, as hailed by some. According to new research from usability expert Jakob Nielsen, RSS feeds prove to be a cold medium in comparison to email newsletters, which do a far better job at building a relationship between a company...