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The authorities and the official media appear to be trying to sabotage the campaigns of opposition candidates contesting December 4 presidential elections. Several opposition candidates have claimed that state media are effectively boycotting them, and there have been reports of the authorities harassing independent and oppositional newspapers. Observers say this flies in the face of assurances...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Internet advertisers and marketing professionals have a message for television networks: get ready to change the way you work. As Internet advertising grabs a bigger share of marketing budgets and ad agencies tailor spots to a new medium where attention spans can be measured in split seconds, television networks will have to adjust, executives told the Reuters Media and...

JERUSALEM, Dec 1 (Reuters) - Israeli forces have arrested a reporter for the Web site of the Arabic satellite channel Al Jazeera television station in the West Bank town of Hebron. Awad Rajoub, 29, was arrested at his home there on Wednesday evening, Walid al-Amari, Al Jazeera bureaux chief for the West Bank, Gaza and Jerusalem, said on Thursday. Israel has not explained the arrest, he told...

Threats to mainstream media seem to be coming from all sides. If news aggregators like Yahoo/Google and classifieds like Craigslist were not enough, the latest threat from cyberspace comes in the form of independent local sites, says a new report. Borrell Associates, a leading research and consulting firm covering local advertising, in its report, "Independent City Sites Gain Steam," has detailed

A Somali reporter has been jailed since Monday following his recent online story claiming that a faction known as the Jubba Valley Alliance has been importing arms in violation of the 2004 peace agreement and a United Nations arms embargo, the National Union of Somali Journalists (NUSOJ) reported. A Somali gunman carries a Russian-made long range machinegun in the port-town of Merca, October 26

Mario Enrique Mayo Hernández, an imprisoned Cuban journalist who wounded himself and waged repeated hunger strikes to call attention to his plight, was released on medical parole Thursday, more than two and half years after he was jailed in the government's massive March 2003 crackdown on the independent press. Cuban President Fidel Castro, gestures while talking during an evening ceremony

Back in 1987, then Prime Minister of France Jacques Chirac called for the creation of a French international news network. Now, 18 years later, his dream is en route to being realised. Culture and Communications Minister Renaud Donnedieu de Vabres announced 30 November the launch of a "chaîne d'information internationale" (CII), dedicated to giving French spin on world news following the model of...

TODAY'S execution of Nguyen Tuong Van has forced the mandatory death penalty issue onto the agenda in Singapore, with the local media unable to ignore the political lobbying, threatened trade boycotts and heated public debate in Australia. In a rare break with the government line, the broadsheet Straits Times ran an article discussing the mandatory death penalty, despite numerous government...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Media managers will get their hands dirty in 2006, experimenting with new and untested formats to find a better formula of reaching appropriate audiences. Executives speaking at the Reuters Media and Advertising Summit in New York this week pointed to dozens of new tactics worth trying, and others worth dropping, as growth in new media outlets disrupts the television-dominated...

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Playboy (PLA.N: Quote, Profile, Research) is in talks to launch a men's magazine in India, but one that does not include its trademark nudes or even its name, Chief Executive Christie Hefner said on Thursday. The top-selling men's magazine in the world, which is rolling out an edition in Argentina soon, also wants to return to Italy and Australia, and is discussing joint...