International

Global entertainment and media revenue is forecast rising by an average of 6.6 percent a year to $2.2 trillion by 2012, boosted by advertising-supported digital and mobile media and an explosion in the adoption of broadband. According to the PricewaterhouseCoopers (PwC) annual forecast released on Wednesday, advertising tied to the burgeoning interest in watching videos on the Internet and on...

Cartoonists Rights Network International has announced the winner of its 2008 Courage in Editorial Cartooning Award: Bahaa Boukhari, a Palestinian. CRNI, the only international organisation devoted to defending the human rights of cartoonists imperiled because of their work, will present the award to Boukhari at its annual dinner on June 26. The dinner is to be held at the Hotel Contessa in San...

Eighty-two journalists fled their native countries under threat or harassment in the last 12 months, with more than half coming from conflict-ridden Iraq and Somalia. The rate of journalists going into exile—about seven per month—is double the average that the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has recorded since it began compiling such data in 2001. In the majority of cases, journalists

Three years on, the Danish cartoon wars just won't rub out. Governments are stoking the crisis by instigating protests against the cartoonists or the newspapers that dared to report on the controversy, the World Association of Newspapers (WAN) and other IFEX members have found. Cartoonists and journalists from the Arab world, Europe and the US say that the Danish cartoon crisis is being

Among people who research products and services after seeing them advertised in newspapers, two-thirds (67 per cent) use the Internet to find more information. Of that group, nearly 70 per cent of consumers actually make a purchase following their additional research. A study commissioned by Google, conducted by Clark, Martire & Bartolomeo shows that consumers trust ads appearing in newspapers

Reporters sans Frontières (RSF) has called is calling on European Commissioner for external relations, Benita Ferrero-Waldner, to raise the problem of risks to journalists covering fighting in the Palestinian territories at the Israel-EU Association Council meeting in Luxemburg on June 16. “The death of Fadel Shana, of the British news agency Reuters, on 16 April 2008, has reawakened our concern...

Young adults experience news fatigue from being inundated by facts and updates and have trouble accessing in-depth stories. The Context-Based Research Group, an ethnographic research firm, has found that the news consumption behaviour of younger readers differs profoundly from that of previous generations. The research project, commissioned by the Associated Press in 2007, analysed the news

A new study on the media habits of young people in three countries found that television continues to be the most important source of news and information for the young, despite the rise of the internet—and newspapers can win their attention as well. The survey of 3,500 young people between 15- and 29-years old in the United States, the Netherlands and Finland found that young people get their...

The BBC has dropped plans to create a "licence fee" option for users of its international news website who were outraged by the introduction of advertising last year, says a Guardian report. "We did look into it, but all the evidence from commercial operators is that what ever people say about wanting a subscription, it is not the case," BBC World managing director, Anne Barnard, said Thursday. "A...

The United Nations has apologised to an Iranian journalist who was barred from a food summit in Rome following opposition from the Islamic state whose president was among participants, agencies have reported. The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) said Wednesday that it was sorry after the incident involving Ahmad Rafat, an Iranian who works for the Italian news agency ADN-Kronos, Agence...