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Gannett Co. Inc., the nation's largest newspaper chain, said yesterday that it was weighing a bid for some of the 12 newspapers the McClatchy Co. wants to sell after its planned acquisition of Knight Ridder Inc. this summer. Gannett chief executive officer Craig Dubow said he was taking "a hard look" at the newspapers, but would not name any he particularly wanted during questioning by investors...

NEW Zealand Prime Minister Helen Clark has lashed out at an investigative journalist who unveiled damaging scandals against her ministers, calling him a "creep". Mrs Clark's attorney-general David Parker resigned from all his portfolios this week after journalist Ian Wishart revealed Mr Parker had filed false declarations to the Companies Office. Wishart's Investigate Magazine also published fresh...

I don't so much mind that newspapers are dying -- it's watching them commit suicide that pisses me off. Let's use this as a handy exercise in journalism. What is the unexamined assumption here? That the newspaper business is dying. Is it? In 2005, publicly traded U.S. newspaper publishers reported operating profit margins of 19.2 percent, down from 21 percent in 2004, according to The Wall Street...

These men have a streak of obstinate determination to succeed and an indomitable courage to dream. What makes them winners? Subhash Chandra -- arguably new India's first media baron -- comes from a trader family from Haryana who dabbled in various businesses from rice milling and trade to laminated tubes before setting up India's first amusement park Essel World. It was only in the early nineties...

NEW YORK: When The New York Times ran Kurt Eichenwald's Dec. 19 story about a 13-year-old who used his computer to sell sex acts over the Internet, the paper not only ran the piece on its Web site, it also included a Web-only essay and a video interview with the boy. One month later on the opposite coast, Kevin Fagan of the San Francisco Chronicle served as a media witness at an execution, then...

Hyderabad, Mar 22 : A journalist working with a newspaper here was allegedly manhandled by the police and was detained for over nine hours in the police station last night. In a letter to Chief Minister YSR Reddy, the newspaper said the sub-editor of the paper was having a cup of tea at Punjagutta at about 11.45 pm last night when he was allegedly roughed up and dragged to the police station by...

New York -- The Committee to Protect Journalists today condemned the detention and prosecution of a Kurdish journalist who was seized by Kurdish security forces in northern Iraq. On March 17, security forces affiliated with the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) arrested Hawez Hawezi, a 31-year-old high school teacher who also writes for the independent Kurdish weekly Hawlati, at his home in Koya...

New York, March 22, 2006–The Committee to Protect Journalists today condemned the detention and prosecution of a Kurdish journalist, who was seized by Kurdish security forces in northern Iraq. On March 17, security forces affiliated with the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) arrested Hawez Hawezi, a 31-year-old high school teacher who also writes for the independent Kurdish weekly Hawlati, at his...

Looking for ways to shore up their readership and broaden appeal to advertisers, many U.S. newspapers are adopting a new tactic: targeting narrower and younger audiences. Newspapers are launching youth-oriented publications designed to attract smaller advertisers that can't afford mainstream papers. They're building search engines to compete with Google Inc. and Yahoo Inc. on a local level. And...

SANA’A, March 22 – Prosecution lawyers yesterday demanded that the English language Yemen Observer be shut down permanently and all the newspaper’s property and assets be confiscated, saying the newspaper insulted and mocked Islam and the Prophet Mohammed (pbuh) by republishing caricatures of him. They also demanded that Editor-in-Chief Mohammed Al-Asaadi be forever banned from newspaper writing....