(February 20, 2007) -- My suggestion for publishers, editors and news managers dealing daily with the cost-cutting that plagues newsrooms around the country is to fire someone. But don't fire a reporter, copy editor, or a photog. What I'm proposing might not win me any friends at the major wire services. I'm certainly not going to win any popularity contests. But allow me to get a few points...
ER-RIYADH, February 12 (RIA Novosti) - Russia's RIA Novosti news agency signed a cooperation agreement with the state-run Saudi Press Agency (SPA) on the sidelines of the Russian leader's landmark visit to the richest Arab nation. The document, signed by RIA Novosti's editor-in-chief Svetlana Mironyuk and Saudi Minister of Culture Iyad Madani, is designed to improve understanding between the two...
It was vigilant bloggers who first raised questions about the validity of two Reuters photographs of Israeli military action in Lebanon published last summer. In one, wisps of smoke rising over Beirut seemed identical, as if extra smoke had been added to enhance the image. In the other the accusation was that the number of flares being dropped by an Israeli F-16 fighter had been increased by...
Malaysia on Saturday formally opened an office of its official news agency Bernama in India. "India's ecomonic growth is being keenly followed by the developing world and Bernama hopes to catch first-hand the country's unfolding success stories," Malaysian Information Minister Datuk Seri Zainuddin Maidir said during the launch of the news agency's office in Kuala Lampur. Union Science and...
Russian news agency RIA Novosti will be entering the print media segment with the launch of an English-language weekly newspaper on Friday, the agency's editor-in-chief said on Thursday. The Moscow News, one of Russia's oldest English language periodicals, will now be relaunched in a new version, with considerable changes in both content and design. "The project to create a new version of the...
News agency Associated Press has tied up with NowPublic.com to bring citizen content into AP newsgathering and explore ways to involve NowPublic’s on-the-ground network of news contributors in AP's breaking news coverage. The goal of the effort is to expand the world’s access to news as it happens, the companies said in a press release Friday. In addition, it is designed to help NowPublic expand...
Malaysia on Saturday formally opened an office of its official news agency Bernama in India. “India’s ecomonic growth is being keenly followed by the developing world and Bernama hopes to catch first-hand the country’s unfolding success stories,” Malaysian Information Minister Datuk Seri Zainuddin Maidir said during the launch of the news agency’s office in Kuala Lampur. Union Science and...
(IFJ/IFEX) - The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has urged the Indian government to intervene in the proposal to corporatise a news service which informs millions throughout India. In a letter sent on December 20 to the Indian prime minister, Dr Manmohan Singh, the IFJ stated its deep concern for the future of media diversity in India, after the proposal to sell a majority (60 per...
LONDON, Dec 13 (Reuters) - Global news agency Reuters (RTR.L: Quote, Profile , Research) on Wednesday appointed David Schlesinger to be its new editor in chief, replacing Geert Linnebank, who will become a senior adviser to the company's chief executive. Schlesinger, who has been global managing editor and head of editorial operations since 2003, will take over in January 2007. "He (Schlesinger)...
Interesting things are happening in the world of Indian media. Unknown to newspaper readers and television viewers, ownership of media houses is stealthily passing into the hands of big corporate houses. Traditionally, newspaper groups had been owned by big companies like the Birlas, Sahu Jains and Dalmias, but the latest trend involves a quiet takeover of some established media companies through...
