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NEW YORK: When Publisher Arthur Sulzberger Jr. first raised the question of a job change for Gail Collins in 2001, she was afraid he was going to fire her. "I was at a party and he was there," Collins, then an Op-Ed columnist, recalled. "He whipped around and said, 'do you like your job? Would you give it up?' " The result, of course, was just the opposite. Instead of being fired, she was promoted...

July 13, 2006: Two local journalism professors have produced guidebooks on Canadian journalism ethics that offer some hope to scribes toiling in the trenches of big media and the audiences enduring the daily drivel they produce. Stephen Ward's The Invention of Journalism Ethics: The Path to Objectivity and Beyond and Nick Russell's Morals and the Media: Ethics in Canadian Journalism (2nd edition)...

Guwahati: Veteran journalist and the former Editor of The Assam Tribune, Satis Chandra Kakoti, died at his residence here on Monday night. He was 94 and is survived by two sons and four daughters. Mr. Kakoti began his career in 1937 and served as the Guwahati Correspondent of Hindustan Standard, Ananda Bazar Patrika and the Press Trust of India. He joined The Assam Tribune as Assistant Editor in...

New York, June 20, 2006—Members of the board of the press freedom advocacy organization the Committee to Protect Journalists elected Joel Simon executive director today. CPJ Chairman Paul Steiger said Simon will bring “energy, intelligence and experience to CPJ and journalists around the world at this critical time for press freedom.” Simon worked as a journalist in California and Latin America...

Gavin O'Reilly, the Chief Operating Officer of Ireland-based Independent News & Media PLC, has been re-elected President of the World Association of Newspapers for a second two-year term. Fred Arp, Chief Financial Officer of the Telegraaf Media Group in the Netherlands, was re-elected Treasurer of WAN. MAN ON TOP: Gavin O'Reilly was appointed Group Chief Operating Officer of Independent News &...

NEW YORK: Ann Cooper, the executive director of the Committee to Protect Journalists, is leaving the organization to run the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism’s broadcast department, according to a memo from CPJ chair Paul Steiger. The memo, first posted on the Romenesko Web site Wednesday, says Cooper will keep the CPJ post she has held for eight years until the end of June. “CPJ...

An Iranian journalist who spent the last six years in jail for criticising the Iranian authorities has been awarded the 2006 Golden Pen of Freedom, the annual press freedom prize from the World Association of Newspapers. Akbar Ganji, a leading investigative journalist who is now one of Iran's most renowned dissidents, dedicated the award to "all Iranian dissidents and freedom-fighters." PENNING...

Ladies and gentlemen: In the presence of representatives from the world media gathered here, let me begin by thanking the World Association of Newspapers for giving me the Golden Pen Award. I am humbled by the honor. I think the prize should in fact go to all Iranian dissidents and freedom-fighters. And in this category, more than anyone the prize should go to those who fought for freedom and...

Jim McClatchy bore many titles during his six-decade career: pilot, Army officer, business manager, publisher, philanthropist, chairman of the board. But in a conversation not long before his death, he made a succinct request as to how he wanted to be remembered: "Put down that I was a newspaperman." He was that. James Briggs McClatchy, senior member of one of California's pioneering newspaper...

ANKARA, 24 May (IRIN) - Iranian journalist and political dissident, Akbar Ganji, has been awarded the annual Martin Ennals Award for Human Rights Defenders (MEA). "He stood out in the eyes of the jury, composed by members of 11 different human rights organisations, in terms of the sacrifices he has made and the fact that he refused to compromise [for freedom of expression] in any way," Hans...