Americas

More than 1,000 publishers including the New York Times, the Washington Post, and the Dallas Morning News have signed on to participate in the Fair Syndication Consortium, a model built to help publishers receive compensation for their content, Editor & Publisher has reported. AdBrite, an online marketplace to buy and sell advertising, has agreed to work with the consortium to help partners...

The Ann Arbor News published its final edition last week, the latest US newspaper to abandon print for an online future, says an Agence France-Presse (AFP) report. "Farewell, Ann Arbor," read a banner headline on last Thursday's edition of the 174-year-old daily, the only newspaper in the town in the northern state of Michigan. The closure of the Ann Arbor News makes the city, which has a...

A start-up in Colorado lets readers pick which articles they want in their magazine and then print it themselves, says a New York Times report. The company, Printcasting, has a website www.printcasting.com on which anyone can put together a magazine featuring their own blog posts or articles and items from blogs and newspapers that have registered with the site. Advertisers can place ads in the...

The interim government in Honduras has been maintaining a selective censorship of news in the country since the June 28 coup d’état. Media regarded as critical of President Roberto Micheletti are being systematically obstructed. The programming of Radio Globo, one of the few media still criticising the new regime, is often interrupted. Soldiers tried to force their way into its studios on July 25

Unidentified individuals harassed and attacked journalists working at the Tegucigalpa offices of the online daily Hondudiario.com three times in two weeks, the Committee for Protection of Journalists (CPJ) has reported quoting local journalists and news reports. Though the attacks appeared to be robberies, the daily's director told CPJ he believed they were retaliation for the Hondudiario.com's...

Following a vicious attack on a cameraman for the La Paz-based television network Gigavisión outside the station's offices early Saturday morning, the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has called on Bolivian authorities to thoroughly investigate and bring those responsible to justice. At 6 a.m. on Saturday, two people pushed Marcelo Lobo into an alley near his offices and hit him repeatedly...

Mexican authorities found the brutally beaten body of a journalist partially buried near the southwestern resort city of Acapulco Tuesday afternoon, the Committee to Protect Journalists has reported quoting local news reports. Juan Daniel Martínez Gil, anchor of the radio news programs "W Acapulco" on national W Radio and "Guerrero en vivo" on local Radiorama Acapulco, was found buried in a vacant...

The Boston Globe’s largest union overwhelmingly approved a package of $10 million in wage and benefit cuts Monday night, ending more than three months of tense bargaining and brinksmanship, the newspaper reported The Boston Newspaper Guild, which represents nearly 700 editorial, advertising and business office workers, became the last of the Globe's major unions to ratify sizeable financial and...

President Rafael Correa called the El Universo newspaper a "travesty of a paper, the voice of the most pernicious political mafias in the history of Ecuador." The president's comment came in response to a July 10 editorial in the newspaper which criticised the replacement of the Deposit Security Agency's (Agencia de Garantía de Depósitos, AGD) manager and announced the newspaper would be...

The Órbita TV station, which operates in the northern region of the Venezuelan state of Anzoátegui, has ceased to operate. The station was in financial trouble due to the pressure exerted by the regional government on advertisers, the Lima-based Instituto Prensa y Sociedad (IPYS) has reported. The station ceased operations on July 10. The station's Operations Manager, Marcos Figueroa, told IPYS...