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The Philippines police raided the premises of a newspaper critical of President Gloria Arroyo Saturday following her declaration of a state of emergency to quash a coup plot, the Associated Press (AP) has reported. Arroyo set off an uproar with her decree Friday as Filipinos celebrated the 20th anniversary of dictator Ferdinand Marcos' ouster in a "people power" revolt, and even some supporters

The last time The Inquirer and Philadelphia Daily News changed owners, in 1970, circulation was down, competition was up, and the papers' fate was in the hand of a distant corporation. Seems like old times. Philadelphia Newspapers Inc., which publishes what are now the city's two major dailies, has the largest circulation and the biggest advertising sales among the 29 markets served by the Knight...

How worried should the print media be about the onslaught of the digital age? Gloomy? Excited? Bullish? A trio of heavyweight print executives, assembled to address the Judge Business School Media and Business conference in Cambridge at the end of last week, had starkly different opinions. Most alarmist and gloomy was Andrew Gowers, until recently editor-in-chief of the Financial Times, who...

LONDON - The Specator and the Literary Review are among four consumer publications trying out a new digital service, which allows readers to flick through magazines online as as if they were printed editions. The Spectator and the Literary Review, along with The Scientist and the London Review of Books, are the first four magazines available on the new platform, which was created by Exact Editions...

The editor and the chairman of a magazine which published a cartoon of prophet Mohammed were Thursday remanded to judicial custody till March 3 in New Delhi. The editor of Senior India magazine Alok Tomar, who was arrested Wednesday night under IPC sections dealing with hurting religious sentiments and attempt to breach communal harmony, was remanded to 14-day judicial custody by local court. UP

LONDON - The Wall Street Journal Europe is to launch a style magazine aimed at high-income executives with former Esquire editor Peter Howarth at the helm, as the financial paper tries to draw in luxury goods advertisers. With a working title of Style Journal, the magazine is to be published by Howarth's contract publishing business, Show Media, and will be launched in April. Howarth said: "Style...

Crying blood is in. At least pretty much in Uttar Pradesh where two virtually unknown Shariat courts have joined the issue with a minister of the state in calling for the death of the Danish cartoonists who drew caricatures of prophet Mohammed. BUSH FIRE: Protestors burn an effigy of US President George W Bush in Lucknow February 19. Thousands of protesters participated in the rally. Shia and

A minister in the Uttar Pradesh government has announced a bounty of Rs 51 crore (about $11.5 million) to anyone who beheads the Danish cartoonists "who dared to make the caricature of the Prophet". The Minister of State for Haj and Minorities Welfare, Hazi Yakoob Qureshi, also Friday told a 25,000-strong crowd of protestors in Meerut, that the assassin would get gold equivalent to his weight

The trial of two men charged with killing Forbes editor Paul Klebnikov has been postponed again – this time following a bomb alert, news agency RIA Novosti reported. "The hearings adjourned after a bailiff announced a bomb threat," defence attorney, Ruslan Koblev, said. He said the alert came when Public Attorney Dmitry Shokhin began presenting the charges. The trial has been postponed to

MEXICO CITY, Feb 15 (Reuters) - A Mexican governor refused to resign on Wednesday in a scandal over taped conversations in which he and a business magnate appear to discuss jailing and intimidating a journalist for writing a damaging book. Gov. Mario Marin of Puebla state told a news conference the audio tapes implicating him in a plot against Cancun journalist Lydia Cacho were false. "There is...