Media - Internet

MOSCOW (Reuters) - Free and open debate has become a rarity in Russia's media which is mostly controlled by the state or business moguls. In a country where three high-profile journalists have been murdered since 1991, many believe speaking out can cost you your life. So many independent thinkers escape to a virtual space free of vested interests where anonymity goes hand in hand with a worldwide...

The internet speeds up the dissemination of not only information but also misinformation. So what are we to do about this? Regulate? Legislate? Complain? Ignore? Or respond? Consider the experience of Tim Toulmin, director of the Press Complaints Commission, when the BBC reported online that he thought bloggers should subscribe to a voluntary code of conduct, or else there is no redress for errors...

(CPJ/IFEX) - New York, December 7, 2006 - The number of journalists jailed worldwide for their work increased for the second consecutive year, and one in three is now an Internet blogger, online editor, or Web-based reporter, according to a new analysis by the Committee to Protect Journalists. CPJ's annual worldwide census found 134 journalists imprisoned on December 1, an increase of nine from...

Chew on these numbers. According to a study conducted by the Internet and Mobile Association of India (IAMAI) and online market research company Pinstrom, there are 40,000 advertisers targeting Indian web users, who conduct over one billion searches a month. Out of this, over 300 million searches carry ads, eventually producing 5 million click-thrus every month. In such a melee, how does a...

New York - Only three of the world's 100 leading websites have met international standards for assisting people with disabilities in accessing their sites, the British accessibility firm Nomensa said in a study released Tuesday to mark the UN day for disabled persons. The three websites are those of German Chancellor Angela Merkel, the Spanish government and British Prime Minister Tony Blair....

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Yahoo Inc., in partnership with Reuters, is inviting the public to contribute eyewitness photos and videos of news events, in the latest move to turn spectators into on-the-spot journalists. The Internet media company said it has created a news contribution system called "You Witness" and is working with news and information company Reuters Group Plc, which will edit and...

PARIS: When the maker of Canderel, an artificial sweetener, cast about for strategies to reach a young, trendy female market, it relied on the breezy counsel of the Buzz Angels, bloggers variously known as Eklektic, Velvetine 2 and Miss Blablabla. This digital match between fashion-conscious French bloggers and Merisant, the sweetener company based in Chicago, was forged by Buzz Paradise, a year...

The Huffington Post, which started about 18 months ago as a political Web site for celebrity bloggers, is preparing to venture into original reporting, with plans to cover Congress and, already, the 2008 presidential campaign. Arianna Huffington, who started HuffingtonPost.com, said yesterday that the site had hired Melinda Henneberger, a print journalist most recently with Newsweek magazine, as...

Magazines have not fully embraced the potential of the web, a study by the Bivings Report has concluded. The study reviewed the websites of the top 50 most-circulated magazines in the US and evaluated them on the basis of their use or otherwise of various Web 2.0 features. The report found that overall there had been a failure to adopt the latest web features. It did, however, recognise that US...

An online study conducted by the Department of Communication and Journalism, University of Pune, has claimed that readers of online editions of English newspapers in India have outstripped Non-Resident Indian readers. According to the survey, a majority 67 per cent of online English newspaper readers resided in India and 12 per cent in the US. In a similar survey conducted by the University in...