Media - Internet

Microsoft launched on Monday an effort that combines its various global ad products and services under one umbrella for advertisers. With its new Digital Advertising Solutions, Microsoft will deliver companies' ads to Windows Live, Xbox Live, Office Online, Live Search and MSN users via computers, smart phones, handheld computers and Xbox game consoles. "As today's consumers spend more and more...

MOSCOW (RNWire) - OAO RBC Information Systems (RTS, MICEX: RBCI) has published the debut issue of a full-color business newspaper RBC Daily today, which was previously accessible to Internet users only. The newspaper RBC Daily accumulates RBC's broad experience in providing financial and economic news, which is essential for any successful business. Using RBC's resources, the newspaper will give...

Earlier this week a Belgian court ruled that Google could not use material from French-language Belgian news sites without paying a fee. The ruling followed a case brought by Belgium's Association of Newspaper editors challenging the right of Google to run their news aggregator under the current copyright laws. While Google removed the newspapers Le Soir, La Libre Belgique and La Derniere from its...

The Financial Times' multimedia newsroom - the much-planned fusion of its print and online operations - will launch in 10 days' time, said editor Lionel Barber. The project will see all print and online news desks integrate: the production system will come fully online and journalists will work an extended rota with more early morning shifts. "We will launch the new newsroom on October 1," Mr...

SAN FRANCISCO: Google Inc. refused to comply Wednesday with a Belgian court decision that required the company to publish the original text of the ruling on its sites, calling that requirement “unnecessary” and “disproportionate.” Earlier this month, the Belgian Court of First Instance ordered the Internet search engine to stop publishing content from Belgian newspapers without permission or...

New York, September 20, 2006 – The Committee to Protect Journalists is concerned that a freelance video blogger has been ordered back to jail after losing an appeal in a U.S. federal court in San Francisco. Joshua Wolf spent 30 days in prison after refusing to turn over to a federal grand jury unaired videotape of a 2005 protest. A two-judge panel for the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals ordered his...

6 week course from May 14th - June 22nd, 2007 Course Aims The course aims to strengthen the capacity of broadcast and print journalists and of the organisations they work for to use the Internet for the purposes of research, publication and distribution. The many 'faces' of internet The Internet is an exciting new medium for journalists and media organisations. Journalists can find a wealth of...

India has become one of the first countries in the world to grant government accreditation to journalists working on the Internet, in a clear acknowledgement of the use of modern technology in disbursing news. Priya Ranjan Dasmunsi, the Union minister for information and broadcasting in the United Progressive Alliance government, gave his approval last week for providing Press Information Bureau...

The Indian government has decided to grant accreditation to online journalists. The new Accreditation Guidelines for media persons have introduced the category of web journalists. The Union Ministry of Information & Broadcasting which grants accreditation to Indian as well as foreign mediapersons through its media unit Press Information Bureau (PIB), has revised the existing guidelines keeping in...

Pamela Pekerman, who blogs about handbags at www.bagtrends.com, had to sneak into the Bryant Park tents during New York fashion week in February. Unable to secure hot invitations, she had to settle for watching models strut down the catwalk on a large video monitor outside the shows, or, worse, on the Internet. If she was lucky, she got a standing-room-only ticket. This fall is another story. Ms...