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ISTANBUL, Dec. 6--An Iranian military cargo plane filled with local journalists crashed into an apartment building in the capital city of Tehran Tuesday afternoon, killing at least 118 people, according to state news agencies. The C-130 clipped a 10-story apartment building near Mehrabad Airport, located in southwest Tehran in an area of several sprawling residential complexes. The plane had taken...

The editor in chief of The Village Voice, the alternative weekly, resigned yesterday, less than two months after the newspaper's parent company, Village Voice Media, was acquired by New Times Media. Don Forst, 73, said his departure, effective Dec. 31, is unrelated to the acquisition, which was announced the same week as the 50th anniversary of The Voice. "I've been here nine years and I just...

Siddharth Varadarajan, deputy editor of The Hindu, has been awarded the United Nations Correspondents Association (UNCA) Award for excellence in journalism. The award was presented by UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan at the 10th annual UNCA Awards Dinner in New York on Friday. Sir Brian Urquhart (also inset) seen here with Dag Hammarskj�ld (right). Varadarajan was awarded the silver medal in the...

The highest paid chief executives in the US media industry are in the cable sector, according to Advertising Age magazine's latest annual salary survey. Comcast Corp President-CEO Brian L Roberts’ total compensation for 2004 was $33.5 million, making him the highest paid CEO in that country. Comcast Corp President-CEO Brian L Roberts with $33.5 million p.a. is the highest paid chief executive in...

BERLIN - Gerhard Schroeder, German chancellor for the past seven years until this week, is to join Switzerland's leading newspaper group, Ringier, as a political consultant and lobbyist, working at its offices in Zurich one or two days a week. The ex-chancellor, 61, who resigned his seat in the German Bundestag after handing over to successor Angela Merkel on Tuesday, would take up the post on...

"Gentleman" is not a term used very often to describe a reporter, but for any of us who knew Hugh Sidey, it is likely to be the first word that comes to mind. I had dinner with him just last Sunday here in Paris and was blown away, as always, by his energy, enthusiasm and experience. Hugh started covering presidents of the United States during the Eisenhower years for Life Magazine and then for...

Three journalists and a media lawyer – from Brazil, China, Uzbekistan, and Zimbabwe – who have endured beatings, threats, intimidation, and jail because of their work have been presented the 2005 International Press Freedom Awards by the New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ). The awards were presented at CPJ's 15th annual awards dinner at the Waldorf-Astoria in New York City on...

Forty of the Britain's most influential journalists over the past 40 years, including 92-year-old former Daily Telegraph editor Bill Deedes and former Guardian editor Peter Preston, have been named by journalists' trade paper Press Gazette in its Newspaper Hall of Fame. Bill Deedes © The Telegraph A veritable roll call of Fleet Street past and present attended a photographic exhibition of the 40...

Harper's Magazine and The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel have been named winners of the 2005 John B Oakes Award for Distinguished Environmental Journalism. The judges cited Erik Reece, author of "Death of a Mountain" in Harper's Magazine and Dan Egan, a reporter for The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel for "Troubled Waters, the Great Invasion" and honoured their works for the "exceptional contribution to...

Bertrand Eveno announced that for personal reasons he would relinquish his post as CEO of Agence France Presse (AFP) by the end of 2005 at the latest. His resignation announcement came before a staff vote of no confidence in AFP's management was confirmed. The no confidence vote is seen as a response to the management's decision to hand over to the police photographs of protestors beating a...