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Most women who work in sports media say they are satisfied with their career choice despite discrimination and abuse, according to a just-released study. Three decades after passage of Title IX, women who work in sports journalism and sports information face serious obstacles to tenure and advancement, according to a survey by the Center for Sports Journalism at Penn State. Most women report that...

Richard Stengel, a long-time writer and editor at Time magazine and the former head of its Web site, was named its managing editor yesterday, the 16th person to hold the job in the magazine's 83-year history. Mr. Stengel, 51, will oversee the newsweekly, which has a circulation of four million, and its Web site, Time.com, which draws more than three million unique visitors a month, a number that...

(May 22 issue) "If I only had a little humility, I would be perfect." Ted Turner always managed to give us good quote. For that alone, we will miss the outrageous from Captain Courageous, as he became known for his yachting prowess. On May 19, Robert Edward Turner III bids adieu to the media world when he steps off the Time Warner Inc. (TWX ) board at the company's annual meeting in Atlanta...

CHICAGO -- The boyfriend of a former Time magazine reporter was found guilty of involuntary manslaughter in her 2003 death after a judge rejected a more serious charge. George Thompson, 36, had faced a first-degree murder charge in the death of Julie Grace. Grace worked in Time's Chicago office from 1991 to 2001. Prosecutors argued during the non-jury trial that Thompson pushed Grace into a...

NEW YORK: A.M. Rosenthal, a Pulitzer Prize-winning foreign correspondent who became the executive editor of The New York Times and led the paper's global news operations through 17 years of record growth, modernization and major journalistic change, died Wednesday in Manhattan. He was 84. His death, at Mount Sinai Medical Center, came after he had suffered a stroke two weeks ago, his son Andrew...

Los Angeles --- It was a remarkably sad coincidence that within the span of a few days, two of the world's more influential newspaper figures died. What is even more remarkable is that even though the two newspapers over which they famously presided could not have been more different, both were rightly considered pioneers and innovators. From 1986 until 1993, Chen Li was editor-in-chief of China...

Dubai, Asharq Al-Awsat-- Arab satellite TV viewers have undoubtedly noticed the increasing airtime accorded to economic affairs and the latest information on the stock market. While in the past, business matters were presented in a short summary included in the main news bulletin, today however they enjoy special lengthy coverage in business-only channels. This change in the Arab media is expected...

The Supreme Court on Friday dismissed a public interest litigation challenging the nomination of Shobhana Bhartia, Vice-chairperson of HT Media Ltd, and Chandan Mitra, Editor, Pioneer, as members of the Rajya Sabha. The petitioner, the Centre for Public Interest Litigation, had challenged their nomination to the Upper House on the ground that they did not fall under the four categories, literature...

Manila, April 20. (PTI): Kerala-based journalist M Suchitra was among the three Indian scribes to be honoured at the 2006 Developing Asia Journalism Awards held here. Founder and Director of Quest Features and Footage in Cochin, M Suchitra 43, became the first ever female to win the overall Development Journalist of the Year title for her article on high maternal and infant deaths among tribals...

MANILA: Kerala-based journalist M Suchitra was among the three Indian scribes to be honoured at the 2006 Developing Asia Journalism Awards held here. Founder and Director of Quest Features and Footage in Cochin, M Suchitra 43, became the first ever female to win the overall Development Journalist of the Year title for her article on high maternal and infant deaths among tribals due to...