Media - Wire

With the exception of government workers, no group of wage slaves possesses a greater sense of job entitlement than journalists, and none enjoys a better platform from which to howl when downsizing threatens. As newspaper publishers have announced buyouts or laid off newsroom staff in recent months at a dozen top newspapers in the country, journalists have given the cutbacks disproportionate play...

Caracas, Venezuela, September 16, 2006 - The South American Television Network Telesur announced the creation of a news agency to rival Reuters and the Associated Press, this Thursday. Andres Izarra, President of the Venezuela-based Telesur, made the declaration at the 14th Non-Aligned Summit this week. Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez arrived in Havana on Thursday for the highly anticipated...

MADRID, Spain - The Spanish national news agency Efe is moving its Latin America text and photo editing desks from Miami to Bogota, Colombia, a company spokeswoman said Tuesday. Ana Vaca de Osma said the decision was made in an effort to be closer to clients in Latin America, and had nothing to do with the company's revenue or market share in the United States. Efe's Spanish-language coverage of U...

A move is afoot to arrest "the onslaught of negative reporting by the Western media which have tarnished the image" of Islam and Muslims. To start with, a meeting of senior officials of the Organization of the Islamic Conference (OIC) member states Monday vouched for revamping of the International Islamic News Agency (IINA) and the Islamic States Broadcasting Organization (ISBO), Arab News has...

Media and entertainment giant Essel Group has bought a majority stake in in non-profit news agency United News of India (UNI), the Daily News and Analysis (DNA) has reported. UNITED MESS: United News of India (UNI) was launched in 1961, and its wire service is available in three languages – English, Hindi and Urdu – serving more than 1,000 subscribers in more than 100 locations in India and abroad...

Tian Congming, president of Xinhua News Agency, said on Wednesday that Xinhua would enhance cooperation with the Japanese Jiji News Agency. Tian said in a meeting with visiting Jiji president Wakabayashi Seizo that Xinhua and Jiji have maintained steady cooperation. He said he believed the visit of Wakabayashi will serve to deepen the bilateral cooperation. Tian called on both sides to make joint...

The variety of perspectives offered by the online international news environment is limited. It offers little real information diversity, a situation sharply at odds with a decade and a half of fervour for the democratising potential of new media, a study by the University of Ulster's Centre for Media Research has concluded. Online news websites have improved access to international news but since...

Developing countries have launched an Internet-based news service intended to provide an alternative to the Western media that they claim is biased. The NAM News Network (NNN), a joint effort of the 116 member countries of the virtually defunct Non-Aligned Movement (NAM), was formally inaugurated on Tuesday last by Zainuddin Maidin, the Malaysian information minister, although it has been live...

ABQ Zawya, the leading Middle East business information company, and Dow Jones Newswires, the world’s leading provider of real-time financial news has launched the Zawya Dow Jones News Service, an English- and Arabic-language news service covering the Middle East’s financial markets. The Zawya Dow Jones News Service combines Zawya’s unrivalled information resources and the reporting expertise of...

LONDON: Like other globetrotting executives, Tom Glocer travels with multiple cellphones, a laptop and a BlackBerry. But when he lands in Tokyo, he has an additional request - a phone running on the Japanese i-mode system, delivered in his chauffeured car, so he can check out the latest mobile services during the hour-and-a- half drive into town. "Unless you play with the technology of an era, you...