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YouTube is set to overtake the BBC as the most popular entertainment website in the UK if current trends continue. According to statistics from internet monitoring company Hitwise, the BBC could find its number one status, which it has held for the past two years, taken by the video-sharing site. Visits to YouTube have risen more than seven-fold since last May. Though the BBC's share of visits is...

Representatives of the North Ceylon Journalists Association (NCJA), in a meeting with the two visiting representatives of Reporters sans Frontiérs (RSF) and Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) Wednesday that "the Sri Lanka Armed Forces' intimidation and restrictions intensifying each day in the Jaffna peninsula are pushing Jaffna Media services into an abyss of darkness more than ever before."...

Beginning next month, Web portals will not be able to retain news content for more than one week due to an agreement among major domestic newspapers. This means Internet users will not be able to search for any news through the portal sites seven days after they were provided to the Web portals. Instead, they will have to visit the online sites of newspapers to read a specific article. The...

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Internet advertising and access spending by U.S. consumers will rise each year by double digits on average through 2011, fuelled by high-speed connections and social networking and entertainment sites, according to a forecast released on Thursday. PricewaterhouseCoopers' Global Entertainment and Media Outlook expects combined spending on Web advertising and fees paid by U.S...

PESHAWAR: Reporters Sans Frontiers (Reporters Without Borders) has voiced “revulsion” at the murder of Noor Ahmed Solangi, correspondent for the Sindhi-language newspaper Khabroon, in Kingri, Sindh. Solangi, 34, died in a hail of nine bullets after he was ambushed by six people on motorbikes and armed with Kalashnikovs, who shot him at point blank range as he was distributing newspapers on June 17...

The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has criticized the Government of Nepal for not doing enough to protect journalists even after continuous threats and attacks on them, reported the local website nepalnews.com Wednesday. "We urge the Nepalese government to take a firm stance against the shocking treatment to journalists," IFJ Asia-Pacific Director Jacqueline Park said Wednesday...

KHARTOUM (AFP) - Sudan released four journalists on Wednesday after detaining them for a week for trying to cover protests against a dam that provoked clashes with police and the deaths of four demonstrators. "We were freed this morning and we've been told that there will be no charges filed against us," one of the four, Al-Fateh Abdallah from Al-Sudani newspaper, told AFP. He added that neither...

LONDON (AP) - Rupert Murdoch's News Corp. is reportedly considering a swap of social networking website MySpace for a 25 per cent stake in Yahoo. The Times of London, which is owned by News Corp., says its parent company was looking for exposure in a larger Internet-based business such as Yahoo. News Corp. spent $580 million to buy MySpace in 2005. Officials for News Corp. and Yahoo were not...

KARACHI, Pakistan–In the city that swallowed up Daniel Pearl, a sense of menace still hangs as heavy as the sultry air. A high-profile new film has focused renewed attention on the case of The Wall Street Journal reporter who was kidnapped and executed by Islamic insurgents here in 2002, and has underscored the fact that many questions remain unanswered. Investigators in this teeming port city, a...

(CEPET/IFEX) - Mexico, 18 June 2007 - Columnist Francisco Rodríguez announced today that he has received two death threats in the last two weeks from the same public employee. The source of the threats, according to a column Rodríguez published on 18 June 2007, is Lino Arturo Vera Pérez, an employee of the National Statistics Institute (Instituto Nacional de Estadística, INEGI). Vera Pérez is the...