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It was the tsunami of December 24, 2004 which opened the floodgates. For the first time, accounts of a major news event authored by citizens with no professional journalism experience not only made front page news or headlining nightly broadcasts, they achieved recognition in the news industry and the world-at-large as valid and credible sources. HANDBOOK ON CITIZENS: The report examines common...

The sacking of Serge July, the editor of the French daily newspaper Liberation , marks a turning point in the history of French journalism. It is also seen as a test case for editorial independence and the viability of print media in France. "If my departure can contribute to the refinancing of the newspaper (by its main shareholder, Edouard de Rothschild), I will not stand in the way," July (63)...

NEW DELHI: India's largest media house, The Times of India Group, on Thursday signed an agreement to acquire 100% stake in Vijayanand Printers Ltd (VPL) - which publishes two Kannada newspapers Vijay Karnataka and Usha Kiran, and the English daily Vijay Times. The move is part of Times Group's efforts to deepen its local presence and develop a larger regional identity. "This agreement highlights...

It prides itself on being France's mouthpiece of the free-thinking left, an irreverent daily founded in the wake of the 1968 student revolt by Maoist luminaries and Jean-Paul Sartre. But the French newspaper Libération plunged into its own existential crisis yesterday after the editor was asked to leave, and the paper which once boasted that it cared nothing about money found its future on the...

Yahoo News, one of the world’s most popular news aggregation sites, plans to launch a citizen video-journalist news service at the end of June that will act as a collection and publication site for news videos generated by the public. Sources involved in discussions with Yahoo News said the project, which has been in development for months, will introduce an upload capability that will take the PC...

MOSCOW: India's Dainik Jagran newspaper has built its reputation on its relationship with its readers - all 19.1 million of them. This was revealed at the World Association of Newspapers (WAN) annual congress and World Editors Forum meeting, held in Moscow, Russia, last week. Sanja Gupta, editor & CEO, Dainik Jagran, India, said that as the newspaper with the world's largest readership, the Hindi...

MOSCOW, June 7 (RIA Novosti) - Mikhail Gorbachev said Wednesday he had bought a 49% stake in an independent newspaper, Novaya Gazeta, but pledged to put no pressure on editorial policy. The architect of perestroika and the Soviet Union's sole president announced the acquisition of the bi-weekly edition at a news conference on the sidelines of a World Newspaper Congress in Moscow. "We are against...

NEW YORK (MarketWatch) - It seems that Editor & Publisher has a problem with the media. It's nothing less than deliciously ironic when a publication which has been reporting on the press for more than a century is displeased about the way that IT, in turn, is being covered. Specifically, E&P's editors are disappointed that their magazine isn't getting more attention. E&P Editor Greg Mitchell...

CLEVELAND (AP) -- Six former Knight Ridder Inc. newspapers awaited word on their fate Wednesday as McClatchy Co. collected offers on the final day of bidding for the newspapers, the last of 12 that McClatchy intends to sell. The other six newspapers have already found new owners, including The Philadelphia Inquirer, which was sold to a local investor group there, and four others that were bought...

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. -- Google Inc. first gained notice early in the decade, as a small and quirky start-up with a disarmingly simple Internet search engine and an idealistic slogan, ``Don't Be Evil." Today the maverick company, adored by online shoppers and Internet surfers, has emerged as one of the most disruptive forces in the business world. Its secret sauce: a technology that lets business...