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NEW YORK - Nearly all people spend a third of their day using two or more media at the one time, often without even realising that they are doing so, a new report has found. The Middletown Media Studies II report revealed that people spent an average of nine hours a day consuming media, including watching TV and radio, as well as spending time on their computers, reading books and using the...

DOHA/MADRID: Al Jazeera channel and international media groups yesterday denounced the sentencing of the channel’s correspondent in Spain yesterday to seven years in jail on terrorism charges. Tayseer Allouni was found guilty by Spain’s High Court of collaborating with a terrorist group but acquitted of being a member of Al Qaeda. He was among 18 people sentenced at the trial, the biggest of...

Magazines are diaries of popular culture. They have intimate relationships with their readers that are not duplicated by other media channels, and they have close ties with other segments of the media and entertainment industry: The stories that appear in magazines often become sources of songs, books, and motion pictures. In addition, magazines exercise special influence in the social sphere –...

The International Federation of Journalists today warned that the seven-year jail term imposed on Al Jazeera television reporter Tayseer Allouni by Spanish judges is a punitive action that could lead to increasing self-censorship in media reporting on security issues and organisations branded as "terrorist". Allouni, a veteran and respected journalist in the Middle East, was arrested in November...

Pan-Arab satellite channel Aljazeera has said it will appeal after a Spanish judge sentenced its correspondent Taysir Alluni to seven years in prison for collaborating with al-Qaida. "The verdict is very disappointing and we consider it unfair and we will contact immediately the legal defence team to study the possibilities of appealing it," Aljazeera general manager Waddah Khanfar said on Monday...

Reporters Without Borders expressed "surprise" after a court in Madrid on 26 September sentenced Tayssir Allouni, a journalist with Arabic TV network al-Jazeera, to seven years in prison for "collaboration" with al-Qaeda. The prosecutor’s frequent references to the journalist’s October 2001 interview with Osama Bid Laden, just after the 11 September attacks on the US, "makes it impossible to rule...

I had been dreading this moment for weeks, but I knew it would come inevitably. The night before leaving for Baghdad; preparing for yet another trip to that doomed city to report on yet more violence. For weeks at a time, I had lived in denial. I had told myself, no, it's not happening; no, I am not going back there. I have had enough, I am not going back to Iraq. But then I gave in, I started...

SHANGHAI, CHINA – As China began to go online, observers made brash predictions that the Internet would pry the country open. Cyberspace, the thinking went, would prove too vast and wild for Beijing to keep under its thumb. Now these early assumptions are being sharply revised. Under an authoritarian government determined to control information, China has grown a new version of the Internet. As...

UK media policy is dominated by a cosy cartel of politicians, government advisers and industry lobbyists, according to new research. Despite government assertions that media policy is increasingly transparent, the report argues that it is centralised, opaque and controlled by a small number of advisers and media experts. Based on interviews with 40 leading media policy-makers, the research...

BEIJING, (AFP) - News Corp. chairman Rupert Murdoch has accused authorities in Beijing of being paranoid after admitting plans to develop his empire in China have "hit a brick wall", the Financial Times reported. Murdoch said Chinese authorities were no longer opening up theier vast untapped market to international media companies, reversing their stance from a year ago. The newspaper said Murdoch...