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Nov. 15 (Bloomberg) -- A man found guilty of murdering British Broadcasting Corp. journalist Jill Dando had his 2001 conviction overturned by a U.K. court. Judges at the Court of Appeal in London ruled that Barry George must be given a new trial after new findings about scientific evidence put the jury verdict in doubt. ``If this evidence had been given to the jury at the trial, there is no...

McLEAN, Va. — USA Today, the highest circulation newspaper in the country and the flagship of industry leader Gannett Co., announced plans today to eliminate about 45 newsroom jobs. The job losses reflect a cut of almost 9 percent to a current newsroom staff of about 500, USA Today spokeswoman Alexandra Nicholson said. They will be scattered throughout news, money, sports and lifestyle sections...

NEW YORK (AP) — As the Hollywood writers strike enters a second week, advertisers are worrying it could seriously disrupt the TV schedule — and the number of eyeballs viewing their ads — in coming months. So far, the strike has forced only late-night talk and comedy shows into reruns, since their material must be freshly scripted every day. But when marquee shows like "The Office," "Desperate...

NEW YORK: The New York Daily News is the latest paper to join the Yahoo partnership. The paper plans to draw upon Yahoo's Web technologies for targeting display advertising, content distribution, and its job board, HotJobs. "The Daily News is excited to be the latest and largest newspaper to join the newspaper consortium," Marc Kramer, CEO of the Daily News, said in a statement. "Our partnership...

NEW YORK -- A few years ago, it might have seemed far-fetched to imagine representatives from traditional media stalwarts like The New York Times and MTV Networks urging others to follow their lead in adapting to survive an evolving online environment. But the times, they are a-changing. Here at the ad:tech New York conference today, exhortations came from MTV, NYTimes.com and other Web media...

Yahoo shares plunged again Wednesday, a day after Congress hammered top executives over the company’s cooperation with Chinese officials in the jailing of a pro-democracy journalist. Shares slumped 7.7% as Rep. Chris Smith, R-N.J., renewed a call for Yahoo to endorse his bill banning such cooperation. Smith said he remained “absolutely bewildered and angered” that the beleaguered Internet portal...

Reporters Without Borders is disappointed by yesterday’s testimony by Yahoo! chief executive officer Jerry Yang and the company’s vice president and senior general counsel, Michael Callahan, to a US House of Representatives foreign affairs committee hearing on Callahan’s earlier controversial statements to Congress about the company’s involvement in the arrest of Chinese journalist Shi Tao in 2005...

NEW DELHI: INX Media on Tuesday said it has promoted founder and chairperson of the Group Indrani Mukerjea to the post of Chief Executive Officer. The decision to this effect was taken by the Board of Directors of INX Media in its meeting today. It also appointed Peter Mukerjea as Executive Chairman and Chief Strategy Officer. Indrani will report to the Chairman and the Board of Directors of the...

Two top Yahoo Inc. officials on Tuesday defended their company’s role in the jailing of a Chinese journalist but ran into withering criticism from lawmakers who accused them of complicity with an oppressive communist regime. Yahoo gave the Chinese government information about Shi Tao’s online activities, and he was jailed for 10 years. “While technologically and financially you are giants, morally...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - More than half of Americans surveyed said it should be illegal for a company to own both a newspaper and a television station in the same market, a coalition of consumer and telecommunications advocacy groups said on Wednesday. The Media and Democracy Coalition released its survey the same day the Federal Communications Commission was due to hold a public meeting on media...