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Aug 23 (Reuters) - Dow Jones & Co Inc (DJ.N: Quote, Profile, Research), which is being acquired by News Corp (NWSa.N: Quote, Profile, Research), on Thursday named new general managers for three key online operations. The company said Daniel Bernard, vice president of marketing for The Wall Street Journal Digital Network (formerly Dow Jones Online), is now general manager of The Wall Street Journal...

The ongoing conflict between journalists and newspaper employers has intensified with the Swedish Newspaper Publishers' Association (Tidningsutgivarna - TU) extending its proposed lockout to include staff at web publications. Around 100 newspapers have been affected already by the dispute. Arbitration has failed to revive stalled talks over a new collective agreement for some 5,500 newspaper and...

New Delhi, Aug. 21 (PTI): N Ravi, Editor of The Hindu, was unanimously elected as the Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Press Trust of India here today. Ravi, a former Washington correspondent of the newspaper and its Editor since 1991, succeeds R Lakshmipathy of Dinamalar. He has served as the PTI Chairman earlier also. Prof E V Chitnis, an eminent physicist, was elected the Vice Chairman...

As Tribune Co. shareholders prepare to convene in Chicago on Tuesday to vote on an $8.4-billion buyout led by investor Sam Zell, the noise in the background is Wall Street traders chirping that the deal might never get done -- at least as proposed. Amid one of the most turbulent summers in years for the stock market, Tribune shares have slid steadily and steeply. The stock closed Friday at $25.67...

IN A REVERSAL OF THE hyper-local formula, which last month saw Washington Post Newsweek Interactive (WPNI) start rolling out narrowly targeted news sites in communities already served by regional print editions of the daily WP, the Chicago Tribune on Thursday launched two weekly print editions spawned by its four-month-old venture in hyper-local citizen journalism, triblocal.com. The new papers...

Newspapers that break up their editorial departments and outsource journalistic work to moneysaving information production factories will only hasten the demise of the traditional press in developed countries, the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has warned. IFJ was responding to plans by New Zealand’s biggest daily newspaper, the New Zealand Herald, to outsource editorial production...

Aug. 14 (Bloomberg) -- Tribune Co. said its $8.2 billion sale to a group led by billionaire Sam Zell is still on, disputing an analyst's report that said the odds of the deal closing as scheduled are no better than 50-50. Shares of Tribune fell the most in almost five years after Craig Huber of Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc. cut his earnings estimates for the second-largest U.S. newspaper publisher...

If the words "print" and "media" conjure up images of plummeting profits, shrinking readership and editors tearing their hair out as they attempt to staunch the exodus to the online universe, you clearly aren't thinking of India. As the country celebrates the 60th anniversary of its independence from Britain, newspapers are flourishing, with growth projections that would impress even the savviest...

New Zealand newspaper publisher APN News & Media has begun outsourcing editorial production work, a plan that will be extended to five daily and three weekly newspapers by year end, the Associated Press (AP) reported. The changes, effective from yesterday, mean that news editing and layout operations at the New Zealand Herald, the country's biggest daily, and a string of regional dailies will be...

If the words "print" and "media" conjure up images of plummeting profits, shrinking readership and editors tearing their hair out as they attempt to staunch the exodus to the online universe, you clearly aren't thinking of India. As the country celebrates the 60th anniversary of its independence from Britain, newspapers are flourishing, with growth projections that would impress even the savviest...