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Hindustan Times Media Ltd, the publishers of leading daily Hindustan Times, will launch an English business daily soon for which the company has appointed Raju Narisetti as Head of Editorial. HT Media plans to launch an English language business daily newspaper and website in the next few months. Raju Narisetti will report to Rajiv Verma, CEO, HT Media. Announcing the appointment, Verma said, "In...

VALENTON, France: Moments after the blast that nearly took her life in Beirut in September, May Chidiac found herself on the back seat of her smoking, mangled car. "At first, I didn't know about my leg," she said, recounting how paramedics in an ambulance quickly arrived to pull her out. "I saw my hand cut, it was still hanging by a small piece of flesh, but I didn't know that it was damaged a lot...

Ft. LAUDERDALE-- On Monday, right at 3:00 p.m., EST, winners of the 90th annual Pulitzer Prizes in Journalism, Letters, Drama and Music will be announced at Columbia University. Given that this award is American journalism's most coveted prize, it will be a day etched into the minds of the winners forever. So when asked where they were when word first reached their ears that they had won a...

William F. Woo, the first Asian-American to be the editor of a major daily American newspaper, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, and the first person outside the Joseph Pulitzer family to be at the editorial helm at that paper, died Wednesday at his home in Palo Alto. He was 69. The cause was colorectal cancer, said his wife, Martha Shirk. From 1962 to 1996, Woo held a variety of posts at the Post...

Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Wednesday presented the Ramnath Goenka Excellence in Journalism awards in New Delhi. "We are here to recognise the good work of good journalists, and also to pay tribute to the memory of a great publisher," Manmohan said. The Prime Minister added, "India is fortunate to have a free and vibrant media. We must defend its freedom and foster its vibrancy. I am sure the...

Men and women both like to read the paper when they get upset (and how sensible of you all!), but how men and women read the news -- that's another story. When angry, we are pretty much polar opposites. We differ on the kinds of news stories we choose, how we read them, and what we want to get out of them. An Ohio State University professor analysed our reading habits, starting by annoying a whole...

CHICAGO -- Richard N. Winfield has been elected chairman of the World Press Freedom Committee. Winfield succeeds James H. Ottaway Jr., who was chairman for 10 years. The group, a nonprofit organization based in Washington, D.C., advocates against international restrictions on the press. Winfield was elected Sunday at the group's biennial meeting in Chicago. Winfield served as general counsel for...

Brussels: Luv Puri, the Jammu-based journalist for The Hindu, has been awarded the European Union’s Natali Prize for articles on human rights and democracy. Puri, 26, won the third prize for his article published in The Hindu, "In an alien land". The story was a poignant account of two Pakistani boys who had crossed the India-Pakistan border and had landed in the Kot Bhalwal Jail with a group of...

LOS ANGELES – Kevin Sites, the veteran war correspondent who provides dispatches from armed conflicts around the world for Yahoo! News, was announced Tuesday as this year's recipient of the Daniel Pearl Award for Courage and Integrity in Journalism. Sites was chosen for his "style of work, the solitary commitment to truth, the selection of the newsworthy, the focus on the human faces, and the...

LOS ANGELES – Kevin Sites, the veteran war correspondent who provides dispatches from armed conflicts around the world for Yahoo! News, was announced Tuesday as this year's recipient of the Daniel Pearl Award for Courage and Integrity in Journalism. Sites was chosen for his "style of work, the solitary commitment to truth, the selection of the newsworthy, the focus on the human faces, and the...