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Noted journalist and former editor of Malayalam daily Mathrubhumi,VK Madhavan Kutty, died in New Delhi Tuesday night. Kutty, who was also the founder director of satellite channel Asianet and a renowned author, is survived by his wife and two daughters. Kutty was admitted to a hospital on Saturday after he developed asthmatic complications. He was subsequently shifted to another hospital where he...

Mumbai, October 31: PAWAN Bhargav (32), the freelance journalist who attempted suicide allegedly to escape the clutches of the police after a failed sting operation, ironically found himself jailed as a result. Immediately after being discharged from Thane Civil Hospital on Monday afternoon, Bhargav was arrested by the local police for attempted suicide. He was, however, released on bail by the...

Indian Muzamil Jaleel was among three reporters who were awarded the Kurt Schork Awards in International Journalism in New York on Wednesday. The other two awardees, Canada’s Patrick Graham and Poland’s Pawel Smolenski, were selected for their reporting from Iraq. Muzamil Jaleel © KSMF Underwritten by the Kurt Schork Memorial Fund and Reuters, and administered by the Columbia University Graduate...

A freelance journalist who was involved in the broadcast of rape allegations last week against a Navi Mumbai police constable, which led to the lawman's arrest, tried to commit suicide on Wednesday alleging mental harrassment by the police. TELECASTING ASPERTIONS: The Nerul policeman was arrested after a mobile conversation with the alleged victim was telecast on Sahara Samay. Pawan Bhargav was...

A war photographer from Germany, a crime reporter from Bangladesh who was stabbed and beaten, and the founder of a magazine threatened with closure by Iran's government because of its coverage of women's rights all received Courage in Journalism Awards from the International Women's Media Foundation (IWMF). Sumi Khan The foundation's 15th annual awards were presented Tuesday to Anja Niedringhaus...

(CBS) CBS News President Andrew Heyward announced Wednesday he would be leaving his post when his contract expires at the end of the year. Heyward will be replaced by CBS Sports President Sean McManus. "After nearly ten years in this job … it's time for a change, both for the news division and for me," Heyward wrote in an e-mail to CBS News staff. Heyward is the second-longest serving CBS News...

Rupert Murdoch's oldest son, Lachlan - considered by many to be his heir apparent - resigned July 29, 2005 from his job at the News Corporation amid apparent family discord, adding a new twist to one of the business world's most closely watched succession chronicles. The decision by Lachlan, 33, to step down leaves just one of Rupert Murdoch's four adult children, James, in an executive position...

In the 1970s, when my involvement with journalism was largely restricted to seeing the press from the perspective of a reader, there was no doubt in my mind that Ramnath Goenka, the Indian Express’s feisty proprietor, was one of the good guys. In those days, people like myself tended to judge journalists and their proprietors on a single criterion: where did they stand on the Indira Gandhi issue...

Three journalists were killed in the October 8 earthquake in Muzzafarabad and Bagh areas of the Pak-Occupied Kashmir (PoK) Kashmir while at least five newsmen are missing, according to information received by the Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists. "50 journalists have suffered personal losses." A PFUJ release said that the journalists who died in the quake were Sardar Hanif of Jang, Bagh...

Media mogul Rupert Murdoch is selling himself on eBay to raise money for a Jerusalem hi-tech college. Murdoch has set a reserve price of $25,000 per ticket for the lunch date with him, and all profits will go to the Jerusalem College of Technology, praised by the News Corporation boss as an institute "producing top-notch graduates." According to Britain's The Guardian newspaper, Murdoch has "long...