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The words leap from the page in a familiar bold white-on-black font, every word heavily underlined: "Bullying can hurt so much that kids at the receiving end can be driven to kill. At a Gurgaon school, two 14-year-olds did just that and shot their classmate." It's a classic Daily Mail story given a classic Daily Mail treatment. But this is Delhi, and Mail Today a joint venture between the India...

PARIS, Dec 3 (Reuters) - Staff at French business newspaper La Tribune have decided to suspend a strike begun in protest over a deal by owner LVMH (LVMH.PA: Quote, Profile, Research) to sell the paper, trade unions said on Monday. "Staff at La Tribune, who have been on strike since November 29, have just voted (72 percent) to suspend their movement," the unions said in a statement. Luxury goods...

After a decade of watching newspapers and rival wire services shrink, The Associated Press, the 161-year-old news cooperative, is refitting itself to handle the 24-hour news cycle it helped create. “You have to adjust to the marketplace,” said Jim Kennedy, The A.P.’s vice president for strategic planning. “The new generation of consumers has completely different habits.” To feed those habits and...

Agence France-Presse (AFP) has bought a 30 per cent stake in the citizen journalism platform Scooplive, which will be renamed Citizenside. AFP has stated that it will not take part in editorial decisions on the site, which allows users to publish and sell films and photos for commission. According to a press statement from the agency, it is hoped the investment will allow AFP to 'get closer to...

NEW YORK - The New York Times, feeling the squeeze affecting newspapers everywhere, said Wednesday it would eliminate about a dozen support staff jobs from its newsroom. Executive editor Bill Keller told Times employees in an e-mail message that the job cuts were the first to affect the paper's newsroom "in recent memory," but would not involve laying off any reporters. Keller said the paper would...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - The U.S. media industry is on the brink of a second downturn in a decade, one that could accelerate the divisions between fast-growing targeted advertising and traditional formats aimed at mass audiences. Since the last advertising recession following the Internet bust in 2000, the world's largest media companies have tried to adapt to deep technological changes, from the rise...

The Russian news agency RIA Novosti and two newspaper associations — the Catalan Newspaper Association in Spain and the European Association of Daily Newspapers in Minority and Regional Languages — have joined the World Association of Newspapers, which groups 77 publishers associations and 18,000 newspapers world-wide. The three organisations were formally admitted at a meeting of the WAN Board in...

NEW YORK (AP) — Yahoo Inc. has added 17 more newspapers to its group of online publishing partners, giving the group added heft as it approaches its one-year anniversary. Yahoo executives told The Associated Press that The Columbus Dispatch and 16 regional newspapers owned by The New York Times Co. have joined the consortium, bringing its total number to about 415 dailies and another 140 weeklies...

WHEN Hurricane Katrina hit America’s Gulf coast late in the summer of 2005, the Daily Mail was there. But headlines such as “City sunk by the wrath of Katrina” and “Come hell or high water, the music will go on”, were only the beginning of its involvement in a disaster that claimed 1,800 lives. Beyond the trenchant prose of the voice of middle England, Daily Mail and General Trust (DMGT), the...

Rupert Murdoch's six children are getting an early Christmas present after the family trust Mr Murdoch controls sold more than $360m worth of News Corp shares. The cash pay-out follows a $600m bonanza received by the siblings in February - at the time the biggest distribution of Mr Murdoch's fortune. Proceeds from the sale of 17.5m class A shares are expected to be equally split among the children...