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Internet searches fail 30% of the time, people are spending more time searching for information online, and press releases have surpassed trade journals as the leading source of information for knowledge workers. This according to a new report from research firm Outsell. The report is based on surveys of 7,000 knowledge workers taken from 2004 to the present. "The real headliner in this is that...

The Board of the World Association of Newspapers has called on the government of Belarus to end the harassment of journalists and the repression of press freedom that exists in the country. "The past year has been marked by severe repression of press freedom in Belarus, which culminated at the time of the presidential elections in March 2006 when over 30 journalists where arrested. Even though all...

The Board of the World Association of Newspapers has condemned the continued imprisonment of 15 journalists in Eritrea and has called on the east African nation, where all independent media have been shut down since 2001, to restore freedom of the press and access to information. "The Eritrean government has refused to provide information on the health, whereabouts, or legal status of the detained...

The Board of the World Association of Newspapers has called for the release of all journalists jailed in China and condemned "the ongoing repression of all forms of freedom of expression in China." "More than 30 journalists remain behind bars in China. The vast majority of them have faced long periods of detention before even being charged. Most trials result in lengthy prison sentences, often...

MOSCOW, June 6 (Itar-Tass) -- The international journalist community should learn the lesson of the cartoon scandal and avoid steps that may incite religiously motivated violence, said delegates to the 13th World Editors Forum in Moscow. The delegates, who represent the Western and Islamic media, put different accents but were unanimous in the appeal for respect for religious feelings. Joern...

MOSCOW, June 6, 2006 (RFE/RL) -- Hundreds of media bosses from around the world are currently in Moscow to attend the World Association of Newspapers' (WAN) annual congress. Addressing Russian President Vladimir Putin at the opening conference on June 5, WAN chief Gavin O'Reilly painted a bleak picture of the Russian media. But what does the media landscape look like in other former Soviet...

LONDON (Reuters) - News Corp. revealed on Monday its newspaper The Times is on the verge of launching a broadband television news service to build on its rapidly expanding stable of Internet offerings. Les Hinton, the executive chairman of News International, the UK newspaper division of Rupert Murdoch's global media empire, did not provide many details about the service, but said it would pull...

Spain's Supreme Court has upheld a lower-court ruling sentencing former Al Jazeera correspondent Tayseer Allouni to jail for collaborating with Al-Qaida, report the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and Reporters Without Borders (Reporters sans frontières, RSF). Allouni, one of 24 people on trial in Spain for terrorism-related crimes, was sentenced to seven years in prison on 26...

The World Association of Newspapers (WAN) has appealed to Russian President Vladimir Putin to take measures to encourage press freedom in Russia and forgo control and influence over the media. WAN President Gavin O'Reilly opened the 59th World Newspaper Congress and 13th World Editors Forum in Moscow Monday by telling the president that his legacy would be judged "as much by the fate of the media...

An Iranian journalist who spent the last six years in jail for criticising the Iranian authorities has been awarded the 2006 Golden Pen of Freedom, the annual press freedom prize from the World Association of Newspapers. Akbar Ganji, a leading investigative journalist who is now one of Iran's most renowned dissidents, dedicated the award to "all Iranian dissidents and freedom-fighters." PENNING...