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THE INTERACTIVE ADVERTISING BUREAU IS again considering launching a lobbying and/or advertising campaign on behalf of cookies, OnlineMediaDaily has learned. New research commissioned by the IAB and presented at its board meeting this week shows that as many as 12 percent of consumers don't accept third-party cookies--that is, the cookies set by ad servers and analytics companies that track the Web...

The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) is concerned over continuing violence against journalists in Bangladesh, after eight journalists were injured during a demonstration on May 31. The journalists were protesting attacks on the newspaper, Dainik Andolaner Bazar, by members of the ruling Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) on May 30, which forced the newspaper to suspend publication....

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) calls for the release, on health grounds, of cyber-dissident and human rights activist Guo Qizhen, who was arrested at his home on 12 May 2006 and whose health, according to his lawyer, is worrying. The press freedom organisation also condemns the harassment of two other cyber-dissidents, Liu Shui and Xiong Zhongjun, who were forced by the police to leave the city...

Meeting at its Annual General Assembly on 29 May 2006 in Edinburgh, Scotland, the IPI membership adopted a resolution recognizing that the International Press Institute (IPI), as the co-founder of the International News Safety Institute (INSI), is appalled by the number of journalists killed throughout the world while carrying out their job. The IPI membership considers that it is the job of...

(CPJ/IFEX) - New York, June 2, 2006 - An Iraqi cameraman for Reuters news agency was released Thursday after being held for 12 days by the U.S. military. Ali al-Mashhadani, 37, was arrested at a U.S. base in his home town of Ramadi on May 20 while trying to recover Reuters cell phones confiscated from him a week earlier, Reuters reported. It said U.S. officials deemed the cameraman a security...

(CPJ/IFEX) - New York, June 2, 2006 - The Committee to Protect Journalists condemns a decision by caretaker prime minister Thaksin Shinawatra and his Thai Rak Thai party to file criminal defamation charges against the newspaper Manager Daily, its editor, a columnist, and two senior executives. The charges filed on Tuesday relate to articles which alleged that Thaksin and senior Thai Rak Thai party...

NEW YORK (AP) -- Overall newspaper advertising revenues rose 1.8 percent in the first quarter of the year, an industry group reported Friday, with most of the growth coming from online ads. The Newspaper Association of America reported that newspapers took in $11.1 billion in advertising in the first three months of the year, with the largest gain coming from classified ads, which rose 4.7 percent...

(IFJ/IFEX) - The International Federation of Journalists today demanded an explanation from the Ethiopian authorities over the decision to bar a European journalists' leader from entering the country as part of an international mission. The IFJ says that the decision to refuse an entry visa to Arne König, Chair of the European Federation of Journalists, Europe's largest journalists' group, was...

(IFJ/IFEX) - The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) condemns the outrageous attack on the camera crew of television company Mezon during a meeting in Jalalabat city (Kyrgyzstan) on May 27. According to IFJ affiliate, the Public Association of Journalists in Kyrgyzstan, Kamil Satkanbaev, editor of the news department, and journalist Illhom Abdukaharov were beaten, and Satkanbaev's camera...

(IFJ/IFEX) - The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) is concerned over continuing violence against journalists in Bangladesh, after eight journalists were injured during a demonstration on May 31. The journalists were protesting attacks on the newspaper, Dainik Andolaner Bazar, by members of the ruling Bangladesh Nationalist Party (BNP) on May 31, which forced the newspaper to suspend...