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For centuries access to the world’s information – and the ability to communicate it – was controlled by the wealthy and the well educated. Today the internet has broken down many of the barriers that exist between people and information: effectively democratising access to human knowledge. By typing just a few key words into a computer it is possible to find out about almost any subject. In a...

TWENTY-FIRST-CENTURY media companies are well-positioned to take advantage of a changing global economy and are inventing new ways of monetizing previously unused audience assets, according to the chairman and CEO of Yahoo!, one of the largest Internet companies. At least 500 million of the one billion people connected to the Internet use one of Yahoo!’s services at least once a month, according...

Palestinian Authority Chairman Mahmoud Abbas has filed a libel suit against a prominent Palestinian editor who called him a mafia leader and accused him of financial corruption. The case against Abdel Bari Atwan, editor of the London-based al-Quds al-Arabi, was filed with a PA magistrate's court in Ramallah by Abbas's sons, Tarek and Yasser. This is the first time that Abbas has filed a libel suit...

European political correctness allows Muslims to resist integration, argues the culture editor of Jyllands-Posten. Instead, Muslims should be treated just like all Europeans -- including being subject to satire. He argues that publishing the caricatures was an act of "inclusion, not exclusion." The worldwide furor unleashed by the cartoons of the Prophet Muhammed that I published last September in...

NDTV Resident Editor Manish Kumar and cameraman Akram Ali were injured when pro-quota medical students attacked them with sticks and stones at the Patna Medical College and Hospital (PMCH) here today. They were attacked when they went to the hospital to interview students who were injured earlier in a baton-charge by police on pro-quota protestors who had turned violent. As Kumar and Ali arrived...

CHANDIGARH: The Punjab and Haryana High Court would henceforth monitor the progress of the CBI probe into the murder of Sirsa-based journalist Ram Chander Chhatrapati and two other matters wherein the chief and the management of Dera Sacha Sauda, Sirsa, were allegedly involved. At the same time, the agency has been asked to submit the progress report on monthly basis, first such report to come in...

New Delhi, May 19: The government has appointed a committee to go into the demands for revival of abolished distinguished Journalist Category for Parliament passes. "In 1996, distinguished category of journalist was abolished. There is a strong demand to restore it. I have appointed a committee to go into this demand," Parliamentary Affairs Minister P R Dasmunsi told reporters. He said after the...

BAGHDAD -- The recent killings of six Iraqi journalists have rattled the country's fledgling press corps, a battle-worn crew that has persisted in covering the nation's turmoil while suffering dozens of dead at the hands of insurgents, government troops and even American forces. "We are scared working as journalists," said Thamer, a burly radio reporter, sitting in the threadbare cafe of the al...

SAN DIEGO--Hu Shuli, editor of the Beijing-based Caijing Magazine, says without fail she is asked some version of the same question each time she travels abroad. "What is taboo for Chinese journalists?" "Foreign journalists pay too much attention to what is taboo in China" Hu says. "We don't pay attention to it. There are so many important news stories. If a story's important enough, we'll find a...

Wellington - Angry Chinese students at New Zealand's Massey University protested against a student newspaper's front cover spoof depicting Mao Zedong wearing a dress, according to news reports on Friday. Tempers flared outside the university's library in Palmerston North as about 50 Chinese students and a Chinese lecturer confronted staff of the student paper Chaff, the Manawatu Standard reported...