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The controversy over NBC's decision to broadcast the thoughts of Virginia Tech killer Cho Seung-hui illustrates the daily dilemmas faced by news journalists. Most of their British counterparts would find it difficult to justify withholding the tapes. 'We are not censors,' says John Ryley, Sky's head of news, succinctly summing up the consensus on this side of the Atlantic. But once the controversy...

NEW YORK: Her day usually starts around 5:30 a.m. in her Montclair, N.J., home, when she consults her Treo to check news from Europe and Asia while many neighbors are still sleeping. After a few quick calls to foreign news bureaus, she heads off to catch the train. It's unlikely that any of her fellow passengers on NJ Transit's Midtown Direct to New York give her more than a passing glance as they...

Agence France-Presse and Google Inc have settled a copyright lawsuit, clearing the way for Google to post snippets of the French news agency’s news and photos online, the two companies said on Friday. The two companies, in a joint statement, said the accord allows the Internet giant to post AFP content on Google News and other services. Terms of the pact have not been disclosed. Agence France...

Over 1,000 news media personnel around the world have been killed trying to report the news in the past decade, with Iraq and Russia topping the list as the deadliest countries for the profession, according to a report released Tuesday. India stands sixth. The uncle (left) and father of Reuters journalist Waleed Khaled cry over his his body at Baghdad's Yarmouk hospital after he was shot in the...

Reporters Without Borders called for justice in the case of five journalists killed almost 30 years ago in East Timor as the judge at a coroner’s court in Glebe, Sydney (Australia) adjourned the three-week old inquiry to 1st May. The worldwide press freedom organisation said that based on testimony so far, it was possible to assert that British journalist Brian Peters and his four colleagues were...

Reporters Without Borders has hailed the warrant issued on 1 March 2007 by Sydney coroner Dorelle Pinch for the arrest of Yunus Yosfiah, the former Indonesian army officer who led the attack on the East Timor border town of Balibo on 16 October 1975 in which five journalists working for two Australian TV stations were killed. "We applaud Dorelle Pinch's efforts and determination to end the silence...

The Associated Press (AP) has entered into an agreement with Voxant Inc to distribute a selection of its news stories, videos and photographs to blogs and other websites through Voxant's advertising-supported syndication network. Voxant, a startup company based in Reston, US, has deals in place to syndicate news from a number of major outlets including Reuters, Agence France-Press, the Canadian...

Reporters Without Borders has voiced outrage at the pressure applied by the Australian federal government so that three hearings in a coroner's enquiry into the death of Brian Peters and four others journalists in East Timor in 1975 are held in camera. "The secrecy now surrounding the hearings is the result of disquiet within the government about the increasingly serious allegations of lying by...

(February 20, 2007) — My suggestion for publishers, editors and news managers dealing daily with the cost-cutting that plagues newsrooms around the country is to fire someone. But don’t fire a reporter, copy editor, or a photog. What I’m proposing might not win me any friends at the major wire services. I’m certainly not going to win any popularity contests. But allow me to get a few points across...

Four newspapers have been crowned "World's Best Designed" by a panel of judges at the 28th annual The Best of Newspaper Design Creative Competition of the Society for News Design (SND). The winners are: Äripev (Tallinn, Estonia); El Economista (Madrid, Spain); Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung (Frankfurt, Germany); and Politiken (Copenhagen, Denmark) Meeting at Syracuse University in New York...