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Daily circulation of American newspapers continued to slide during the six-month period that ended in March, dropping 2.5 percent from the same period a year ago, according to figures released yesterday by the Audit Bureau of Circulations. Sunday circulation fared even worse, dropping 3.1 percent. The figures are comparable to the declines of the previous six-month period, which were the steepest...

NEW YORK: More than half of newspaper journalists in a recent survey believe an unethical or unprofessional incident occurred in their newsroom within the past five years, while seven out of 10 said they had been accused of bias in the past 12 months, according to a study released today by the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University. But at least 70% of those polled more often...

HARRISBURG, Pa. - A daily newspaper fired its courthouse reporter after he posted anonymous opinions on the public forum portion of the publication's Web site, including comments critical of his own employer, the reporter said. Justin Quinn said he was fired last month from the Lancaster Intelligencer Journal, where he had worked for more than six years. He declined to discuss the content of his...

NEW YORK - Harper's, New York magazine and the New Yorker each won two National Magazine Awards Tuesday, the highest accolade in the magazine industry. Time and Rolling Stone were also two-time winners. But perhaps the biggest coup was scored by the Virginia Quarterly Review, a small-circulation literary journal that also won two awards but was nominated for six, even more than the other top...

Even as the country's daily newspapers reported a continued slide in circulation Monday, more investors placed bets that the industry had touched bottom. In the six months ended March 31, daily circulation fell an average of 2.5% from a year earlier at 700 newspapers surveyed by the Audit Bureau of Circulations. That followed a 2.6% drop in the previous six months. But the stocks of major media...

PRAGUE, May 9, 2006 (RFE/RL) -- Zokirov was an eight-year veteran with RFE/RL's Uzbek Service when a rebel uprising triggered the chain of events that led to the massacre by authorities of hundreds of demonstrators on Andijon's main square. He'd been filing reports from the nearby city of Namangan, in the fertile and densely populated Ferghana Valley. He is convinced that his work led to...

(IPYS/IFEX) - On 1 May 2006, Associated Press photographer Santiago Llanquín and Danny Alveal, a photographer for the newspaper "Las Últimas Noticias", were wounded by persons while they were covering a march organized by the workers' union Central Unitaria de Trabajadores (CUT) to commemorate May Day in Santiago de Chile. According to witnesses, the aggression resulted from the fact that...

(IPYS/IFEX) - On 2 May 2006, Federal District 12th civil judge Carlos Miguel Jiménez ordered journalist Olga Wornat and the weekly "Proceso" to pay 1,958,000 Mexican pesos (approx. US$180,000) as reparation to the Mexican president's wife, Martha Sahagún. The judge decided that Wornat and "Proceso" are guilty of publishing, on 27 February 2005, details about the annulment of the religious wedding...

(MISA/IFEX) - On 8 May 2006, the editor and two reporters of "The Chronicle" weekly newspaper were arrested and charged with criminal libel, following an article published in the newspaper that alleged that the Attorney General, Ralph Kasambara, was involved in the sale of a stolen laptop computer. Police acted on a warrant of arrest following a complaint from Kasambara. Reporter Arnold Mlelemba...

New York, May 8, 2005 - The Committee to Protect Journalists condemns the murders of an Iraqi reporter and a media worker whose bodies were discovered early this morning south of Baghdad. Laith al-Dulaimi, a reporter for the privately owned TV station Al-Nahrain, and Muazaz Ahmed Barood, a telephone operator for the station, were kidnapped by men disguised as police officers at Diyala Bridge while...