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IT was a beautiful late-summer morning. The sky was that slightly sinister September blue, nobody had attacked me on the subway, my daughter Billie had eaten breakfast and even the dog was behaving. Really, there didn’t seem to be much to upset me. I could drop Bill off at school, pick up a coffee, breakfast and the papers and start my day. Then we stopped at the newsagent. Beneath the counter and...

Over one thousand members of the Russian Union of Journalists (RUJ) gathered in Sochi on the Black Sea with the support of the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) for a four-day festival of journalism, the biggest of its kind. IFJ President Jim Boumelha, addressing the official opening ceremony, paid tribute to the RUJ’s tradition of internationalism and thanked the journalists for the...

CHICAGO: Seoul intends to banish newsstand from the streets of the Korean capital by the end of 2009. Korea Times reported on its Web site that the Seoul city government announced sweeping new regulations on commercial installations on streets and walkways that will ultimately get rid of newsstands, kiosks, sidewalk shoe-repair shops, and similar stands. If approved by the city council, the...

NEW YORK The number of free dailies tripled since 2000 and the growth is not necessarily in cities with a mass transit system, according to a new study from the North American Free Daily Newspaper Association. There are 60 free dailies in North America, said the organization, including the launch of two new publications this summer in North Carolina, SmartNews in Fayetteville and the Messenger in...

England may no longer be an empire in the classic sense, with colonies about the world, but it's still very much an empire in the new virtual world, truly a global media empire to which the rest of the world still turns. Indeed, for all the power of The New York Times, for example, it's the British newspapers that draw the biggest share of traffic from nations outside its borders, and by huge...

(IAPA/IFEX) - MIAMI, Florida (September 19, 2007) - The Inter American Press Association (IAPA) today voiced concern to the Nicaraguan government at limits placed on newspaper production supplies as a result of a tax burden on the press, saying it contradicts principles of press freedom and free speech guaranteed under the Central American nation's Constitution. At issue is a dispute between the...

Bangalore, Sept. 19 (PTI): Seeking abolition of the Wage Board, the Indian Newspaper Society today accused the Central government of trying to curb the freedom of speech and independence of the media. “At a time when independent India boasts of a free and open economy, we are faced with yet another Wage Board– being the only industry in the country to have one”, INS President Hormusji N Cama said...

Sept. 18 (Bloomberg) -- Time Warner Inc. Chief Executive Officer Richard Parsons said the media company's board will decide on the timing for Jeffrey Bewkes to succeed him. ``I'm in a transitional mode,'' Parsons, 59, told investors today at a Goldman Sachs Group Inc. conference in New York. He has publicly supported Bewkes, the company's chief operating officer, as his successor. As CEO, Bewkes...

NEW YORK (AFP) - Born 10 years ago, the Google Internet search engine has grown into the electronic center of human knowledge by indexing billions of web pages as well as images, books and videos. On September 15, 1997 Larry Page and Sergey Brin, two 24 year-old Stanford University students, registered the domain name of "google.com." The word is a variation of 'googol,' which refers to the number...

WARSAW (Reuters) - News Corp is considering a bid for broadcaster ATV and Sabah newspaper to expand its presence in the promising Turkish market, the media conglomerate's No. 2 official Peter Chernin said on Tuesday. "We will certainly take a look at it," said Chernin, News Corp's president and chief operating officer, in an interview during a visit to Poland. "Whether or not we will do this (bid)...