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New Delhi: Indian-American academic and journalist, Dr Sarmila Bose, becomes the first Director of the new Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism at the Department of Politics and International Relations at Oxford University. Bose, who was schooled in Kolkata, received her A B from Bryn Mawr College and her MPA and PhD in Political Economy and Government from Harvard University. Dr Bose has...

Pham Xuan An, 79, the Viet Cong colonel who worked as a reporter for U.S. news organizations during the Vietnam War while also spying for the communists, died of emphysema Sept. 20 in a military hospital in the former Saigon, now known as Ho Chi Minh City. The secret of Mr. Pham's double life was kept for almost 30 years, from 1959 until the 1980s. He was the first Vietnamese to be a full-time...

BANGALORE: The 67th Annual General Meeting of the Indian Newspaper Society (INS) on Monday elected Hormusji N. Cama of the Bombay Samachar Weekly as its president for the year 2006-2007. He succeeds Jacob Mathew of Malayala Manorama. Bahubali S. Shah of Gujarat Samachar was elected deputy president, while Paresh Nath of Women's Era the vice-president, Sunil Dang of Day After honorary treasurer and...

Srinagar, Sept 13: First Kashmiri woman journalist and prominent literary personality Taj Begum Renzu died here today. She was 75. Wife of first Speaker of constituent Assembly Ghulam Rasool Renzu, Taj Begum was also the president of women's wing of National Conference before switching over to Congress. She was the first woman journalist in Kashmir who started a newspaper in Kashmiri, 'Alao'. She...

MUMBAI: Shobhana Bhartiya, Vice Chairperson and Editorial Director of HT Media Ltd, New Delhi, was on Friday elected chairperson of the Audit Bureau Of Circulations for 2006-2007. Bhartiya has been a member of the council of management of ABC since 1999 and deputy chairperson for 2005-2006. A Member of the Rajya Sabha, she is involved with industry bodies in India and abroad. She is also a member...

Conrad Black, the former head of Hollinger, has had his worldwide assets frozen and his income restricted to $20,000 (£10,500) a month. The assets of his wife, Barbara Amiel, have also reportedly been frozen. A court in Ontario issued the freeze at the request of Hollinger Inc, the Canadian company through which Lord Black of Crossharbour once owned the Telegraph newspaper titles and which earlier...

New York - Nirashree Munshi, a reporter in an ethnic Indian newspaper, has been crowned New Miss India California. Munshi, who is with the India Post newspaper, won the title at the 2006 edition of the pageant held in Oakland, California. According to a report in India Post, she began her performance with a short introduction of a classical raga called Puryadhanaashree. She followed this up with...

LONDON: Vaughan Smith leaned forward in his chair and winced as a scene from "Baghdad E.R.," a documentary film about an American army hospital in Iraq, rolled across the screen. "It's pretty gory," he said as the camera zoomed in on a soldier's eye, from which a surgeon was about to remove a bit of shrapnel. While some people look away from the effects of war, Smith prefers to examine them...

(IAPA/IFEX) - MIAMI, Florida (July 28, 2006) - The Inter American Press Association (IAPA) today announced that it is awarding its Grand Prize for Press Freedom for 2006 to a disappeared Mexican journalist, Alfredo Jiménez Mota from the Hermosillo daily newspaper El Imparcial. The award will be presented to his family members in October. As a consequence of publication in April 2005 of the series...

Lagos - A Nigerian editor has won this year's CNN/Multichoice African journalist of the year award, his newspaper said on Monday. Shola Oshunkeye, general editor of the independent Daily Sun newspaper, was named the 11th winner of the award on Saturday night in the Mozambican capital Maputo. The 50-year-old editor emerged the winner with a piece - Niger's graveyard of the living - he wrote in...