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Nov 30 - Venezuela temporarily closes four banks after government warnings it would intervene in the sector if necessary.

Iran sees little point in staying in the Non-Proliferation Treaty, a senior official said on Monday, a day after Iran announced plans to build 10 more nuclear sites in a swipe at growing pressure to rein in atomic activity.

Since free trade replaced mercantilism, liberals have understood that capitalism can do good even if that is not its first objective.

The Mexican writer Jose Emilio Pacheco has won the Spanish-speaking world's highest literary honor - the Cervantes Prize, Spain's Culture Ministry said Monday.

From : Garen Arevian Date : Sun, 29 Nov 2009 20:34:02 PST http://www.aina.org/news/20091129124643.htm Posted GMT 11-29-2009 18:46:43 Turkish Military Planned Attacks on Christians Senior Turkish military officers had made extensive plans to terrorize non-Muslims in Turkey.

The Pakistani militant leader accused of orchestrating the Mumbai attacks denied any involvement and accused India of pursuing a "personal vendetta" against him.

THE Australian newspaper's Gary Hughes has won the nation's most coveted journalism prize, the Gold Walkley.

Russian tabloid's editor promotes a new type of journalism, more emotional and interesting than the staid traditioal newspapers + Enlarge This image The web version of Russian daily newspaper Pravda displayed on a monitor at an internet cafe in Moscow, Russia in April 2007.

Zimbabwe takes this opportunity to set the record straight following unwarranted attacks by Zimbabwe Broadcasting Holdings Chief Executive Officer Happison Muchechetere accusing the media and freedom of expression lobby and advocacy group of hostility and double standards against the state-controlled broadcaster.

Several white wooden coffins - all but one shut to hide the journalists' disfigured remains - were crammed into a rundown funeral parlor in the southern Philippines, not far from where they were slaughtered with guns, machetes and a backhoe.

"I'm not sure if we think about society, or that society thinks us," that's what I heard Malcolm Muggeridge say, when I was about 10 years old.

The Mumbai attacks have spawned books, films, paintings and even comics as India's creative talents look to cash in on an event still fresh in Indian minds.

Jay Rosen has a few thoughts about funding journalism : I was asked to speak recently at a conference organized by Yale University with the title "Journalism & The New Media Ecology: Who Will Pay The Messenger?" This irritated me.

Madrid, Nov 28 Exiled Cuban author and journalist Julio San Francisco documents the struggle for press freedom in his homeland in 'Prensa Gulag', an online novel that the co-founder of an independent news agency on the island has been working on for much of his life.

Like the nearby Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, the Newseum -- Washington's museum dedicated to journalism -- displays dinosaurs.

For the last six years, The Berkeley Daily Planet has published a freewheeling assortment of submissions from readers, who offer sharp-elbowed views on everything from raucous college parties to the war in Iraq .

Gallery: Donovan Moodley's freedom bid rejected 'Stronger than ever", "not afraid to stand alone", "a media favourite" - these are the terms killer Donovan Moodley has used to describe himself in a public pledge to continue his fight for freedom.

NUJ staff vote in favour of strike action in the next three weeks unless the company promises not to make compulsory redundancies Journalists at Trinity Mirror 's papers in Birmingham have voted to strike unless the company promises not to make compulsory redundancies.

Naomi Klein is shown in a 2007 handout photo. Klein says her next book will examine the environmental movement.

The Philippines was already considered among the most dangerous places in the world to be a journalist even before 27 were killed on Monday in an election-related massacre.

Al Jazeera's English-language news network will be coming soon to the cable and satellite dial, after winning the approval of Canada's broadcast regulator.

Police officers carry the body of a massacre victim recovered from a grave on a hillside in Maguindanao province, southern Philippines.

More than 200 years after the first Thanksgiving took place in Plymouth Colony, 1621, President Abraham Lincoln declared the last Thursday of November as a national day of thanksgiving.

The president and CEO of the Mississippi Economic Council will be roasted at a journalism dinner in Jackson early next year.

The woman behind the Belle de Jour diary - which describes her experiences of working as a London call girl - says she misses certain aspects of her old job.

The Irish Times' editor and a journalist must pay a €600,000 legal bill for a court action by the Mahon Tribunal, despite winning their Supreme Court appeal earlier this year.

Legislation Online See guidelines about newspapers and the law and the Freedom of Information Act .

PHILIPPINES President Gloria Arroyo's ruling party overnight expelled the accused mastermind of a political massacre that claimed at least 57 lives, as she vowed justice would be served.

One of the North's top investigative journalists was beaten up in the centre of Belfast today.

Ibrahim Mohamed Mogadishu - Reuters Published on Wednesday, Nov. 25, 2009 1:18PM EST Last updated on Wednesday, Nov.

Gannett's U.S. Community Publishing Division has named Carol Hudler president and publisher of The Tennessean in Nashville.

Free Press, the radical pro-regulatory media activist group, recently filed comments with the Federal Trade Commission for the agency's upcoming workshop on " How Will Journalism Survive the Internet Age ?"A The Free Press comments provide an enlightening glimpse into the mind of how many on the Left now think about media policy in America.A Their ...

It was the perfect ambush although the line of questions had not been preplanned.

The Nieman Foundation for Journalism at Harvard University has received a grant from the Donald W. Reynolds Foundation to establish a new fellowship for business reporters.

New York - Reuters Published on Tuesday, Nov. 24, 2009 11:10AM EST P layboy Enterprises Inc.

Rupert Murdoch has spent months complaining that Google is ruining the newspaper business, and now he wants to do something about it.

Philippine press organisations demanded justice after reporters were among 21 people murdered on Monday in a politically motivated massacre in the lawless south of the Southeast Asian nation.

The Hill Times newspaper has published comments from the Ottawa brother of a Chicago man accused of plotting a terrorist attack.

Nov 23 - Rescue workers free 18 people trapped in a van caught up in an avalanche in Turkey.

Shiv Sena activists today ransacked the office of a Marathi news channel in suburban Bombay, assaulting journalists and damaging furniture.

In this photo taken Dec 19, 2002 and released by press service of Far Eastern Shipping Company the Captain Khlebnikov icebreaker seen somewhere in undisclosed location.

My record is 16 dead in one shift. --Lucio Soria "Z-59 is the code for execution and Z-23 is the code for a dead person," he said.

By Muhammad Saleh Zaafir & Asim Yasin ISLAMABAD: In what could be described as a clear message to the beneficiaries of the National Reconciliation Ordinance to resign from their posts, Prime Minister Syed Yousuf Raza Gilani on Thursday said he would resign if it was proved that his spouse was a beneficiary of the controversial ordinance.

Journalist Maziar Bahari is shown in this undated photo. THE CANADIAN PRESS/ AP - HO Newsweek" A Canadian-Iranian journalist who spent nearly four months in Tehran's infamous Evin prison says he was so desperate after being tortured that he considered committing suicide by slitting his wrists.

The Moroccan authorities are ratcheting up their attacks on independent journalists.

It was ostensibly about obscenity, but it was really about corruption and censorship -- and in the end, justice prevailed.

A scene in the 1987 movie 'The Untouchables' shows Sean Connery as a Chicago beat cop instructing federal agent Kevin Costner on how to play tough in the Windy City.

Prime Minister Stephen Harper urged journalists to "shine light into dark corners" of government affairs during a speech late Saturday, but wouldn't take questions from reporters covering the event.

Don't spare the masterminds: Journalists stage a protest at Mumbai's Hutatma Chowk on Saturday against the attack on IBN offices in Mumbai and Pune by Shiv Sainiks.

James Murdoch , annointed heir to his father's media conglomerate, News Corporation , signalled that the family love affair with newspapers is coming to an end and the business will shift its focus to television and entertainment in the future.

Newly arrived in Moscow on his first foreign assignment, Associated Press correspondent George Krimsky sensed he had a sensational Cold War scoop on his hands and he pounced.

Stevenson High School administrators said Friday that school staff halted publication of the campus newspaper because the latest edition would have included anonymous allegations of students breaking the law.

The Sunday service had ended and the Rev. Larry Kroon couldn't believe what he was seeing.

An editorial published online November 20 in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute discusses the exaggerated fears and hopes that often appear in news coverage of cancer research.

Suspected Shiv Sena activists Friday ransacked the offices of the IBN-Lokmat television channel in north-east Mumbai and in Pune and assaulted journalists.

Former CNN host Lou Dobbs is considering a possible run for the US Senate. Former CCN host Lou Dobbs said he is considering career options including possible runs for the White House or U.S. Senate Dobbs, 64, who left CNN a week ago, said: "Right now I feel exhilaration at the wide range of choices before me as to what I do next." Dobbs spent ...

It was not immediately clear why the office of IBN Lokmat, a television channel that broadcasts in the local Marathi language, was targeted, but witnesses said the attackers claimed to belong to the Hindu nationalist Shiv Sena political party.

In this Monday, Nov. 16, 2009 picture, the space shuttle Atlantis lifts off from pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Fla.

Crush ... US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton shares a joke with British Foreign Secretary David Miliband in London on April 1, 2009.

The lesson of history for any small child is that if you are lucky enough to be presented to the future president of the US, then make sure you have evidence of the encounter before bragging about it to your classmates.

Bill Curry Ottawa - Published on Wednesday, Nov. 18, 2009 7:39PM EST Last updated on Thursday, Nov.

NEWSPAPER publishers have given the first indication of how they plan to charge people for reading news online with one of the world's best-known newspapers, The Times of London, to offer an ''all-you-can-eat'' package to readers.

What would the mainstream media's response be if former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin described China's economic growth to an audience of students in Shanghai as "an accomplishment unparalleled in human history"? That is what the most inexperienced president in modern American history said in Shanghai this week.

INDONESIA has deported two foreign journalists covering a Greenpeace demonstration against forest destruction on the western island of Sumatra - bringing to 15 the number of people kicked out of the country over the protest.

Citizen journalism outfit Allvoices.com is to recruit and pay professional journalists to contribute to its website.

This image provided by Newsweek shows the news magazine's Nov. 23, 2009 cover, featuring a photo of former vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin.

Former Velvet Underground members Lou Reed, Maureen Tucker and Doug Yule will make an extremely rare joint public appearance on Dec.

YouTube has launched YouTube Direct, a dedicated channel for citizen journalism, in an attempt to better connect news organisations with user generated content.

A scene in the 1987 movie "The Untouchables" shows Sean Connery as a Chicago beat cop instructing federal agent Kevin Costner on how to play tough in the Windy City.

Tuesday, November 17, 2009 Courts - "Taking Aim at Student Muckrakers" Updating this ILB entry from Oct.

Lou Dobbs, who recently resigned from hosting a nightly show on CNN , said in his first interview since his resignation that he is "going to remain in the public arena." Dobbs was asked by Fox News' Bill O'Reilly if he is considering a Senate run in New Jersey.

Likening it to the fee paid for grazing cattle on public lands, National Association of Broadcasters President Gordon Smith said Tuesday that hewing to community standards on content was one of the prices broadcasters pay for their spectrum.

A Russian icebreaker carrying more than 100 tourists, scientists and journalists on a cruise around Antarctica was struggling to free itself from sea ice about eight kilometers from clear water, a shipping company said.

Bloomberg has plucked 37 year old Josh Tyrangiel from Time Inc. to run BusinessWeek.

Obama was expected to prod Hu on the value of the yuan following days of testy exchanges between U.S. and Chinese officials over a currency that Washington says stokes global economic imbalances because it is heavily undervalued.

YouTube is trying to help shrinking newsrooms expand their video coverage without increasing their payrolls.

A Leading Zambian journalist, who was put on trial for distributing "obscene material" in the form of photographs of a woman giving birth outside a hospital, was found not guilty.

A writer can smell a sales pitch a mile away. Instead of making over-inflated statements, provide real, usable information.

The nation's largest gay and lesbian newspaper publisher has shut down. Laura Douglas-Brown, editor of Southern Voice newspaper in Atlanta, said she arrived at work Monday to find the locks changed and a note saying parent company Window Media LLC, based in Washington, D.C., had closed down.

The Tennessee Department of State plans to dedicate the 2009-2010 Blue Book to all Tennesseans who have been killed in combat during the war on terror.

Originally published November 15, 2009 at 12:47 p.m., updated November 15, 2009 at 12:50 p.m. SALT LAKE CITY a ' Reed Cowan's reasons for making a film about the Mormon church's activism against gay marriage in California are personal.

A senior journalist on the Malaysian-owned National newspaper has accused the rival Rupert Murdoch daily Post-Courier of "fabricating" a front page lead story claiming 16,000 alien Filipinos are living in Papua New Guinea.

Brian Williams will take a short break from delivering the nightly news to millions of people across the country to accept a journalism award in Phoenix.

A former top adviser and spokeswoman to John McCain's 2008 presidential campaign is pushing back against comments reportedly made by Sarah Palin in her new book.

Is Rupert Murdoch bluffing? Making a bold high-stakes gamble that will save the troubled newspaper industry? Or pursuing a pipe dream that can only end in failure? The News Corp chairperson has prompted a fierce debate among media watchers with his accusation that Google is "stealing" from his vast newspaper empire and his threat to block the ...

The 20th century was 100 years of amplitude. It overflowed with barbarous fighting faiths, wars enveloping continents, and graphic journalism assaulting global audiences with scenes of shocking immediacy.

Nov 14 - United States President Barack Obama pushes for greater U.S. involvement in Asia, welcoming a "strong, prosperous" China.

THE Saudi man sentenced to five years in prison for boasting on television about his sex life appealed his case yesterday, claiming errors and biased treatment in the original trial, his lawyer said.

When a police officer posted a video on YouTube complaining of rampant abuse in Russian law enforcement, it seemed like a lonely voice in a sea of social media.

The Tahoe Daily Tribune is pleased to announce that Annie Flanzraich will begin as the company's new editor on Monday, Nov.

A lot of the sunniest parts of the U.S. - like Florida and the Gulf Coast - are also prime hurricane country.

Everyone loves technology OK, we're not quite at the stage where they all love technologists too, but hey, it's a start.

Top aides to Sen. John McCain's presidential campaign hit back at Sarah Palin Friday, after news reports revealed that the former vice presidential nominee's soon-to-be-released book criticizes the campaign's press strategy.

KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 12 -- Media Prima Bhd has tabled an enhanced offer to acquire The New Straits Times Press Bhd , Malaysia's oldest and largest newspaper publisher.

Fine over Ghaith Abdul-Ahad report quoting PM's critics 'makes a mockery' of Baghdad's claim to be democracy A photograph for the Guardian by Ghaith Abdul-Ahad, whose report about allegations of Nouri al-Maliki's increasing authoritarianism led to the controversy There was widespread condemnation from around the world today of an Iraqi court ruling ...

Asylum seekers hunger strike Female asylum seekers on the Oceanic Viking have gone on a hunger strike to draw attention to their plight.

John Temple recalls the first time he noticed an irregular heartbeat. Temple, associate dean of the Perley Isaac Reed School of Journalism at West Virginia University, was in a North Carolina airport terminal.

Published: Thursday, November 12, 2009 at 12:30 p.m. Last Modified: Thursday, November 12, 2009 at 12:30 p.m. Jon Klein, CNN president, said Thursday that veteran reporter King will move into the 7 p.m. EST slot that's been vacated by Lou Dobbs.

In this B/W photo released by Cambridge University Gareth Jones is seen at Trinity College, Cambridge, where he was a student in the late 1920s and where the diaries are now going on display for the first time.

"I love power. But it is as an artist that I love it. I love it as a musician loves his violin, to draw out its sounds and chords and harmonies." a ' Napoleon Bonaparte Power has been called many things.

In another sign of detente between Fox and the White House, Major Garrett has landed an interview with President Obama, according to the Drudge Report .

The Associated Press 37 comments Lou Dobbs, anchor and managing editor of CNN's "Lou Dobbs Tonight," speaks in this June 2007 file photo at the National Press Club in Washington, D.C. Dobbs said on his show Nov.

Linden MacIntyre, a veteran broadcast journalist best known for his investigative reporting, has won the 2009 Scotiabank Giller Prize for his novel The Bishop's Man .

The award recognizes their commitment to free expression and the courage with which they have faced political persecution.

U.S. pop star Britney Spears, who is facing criticism for lip-synching in her concerts, says she cares what her fans, not journalists, think of her show.

WASHINGTON: Nearly eight years after the brutal murder by beheading of Wall Street Journala s South Asia correspondent Daniel Pearl at the hands of Pakistani extremists, a Pakistani newspaper had endangered the life of another journalist by calling him a CIA spy linked to the Israeli secret service Mossad.

Staff were told on Tuesday that the business pages will now appear in the main paper and travel coverage will be incorporated into the expanded Observer magazine.

Suppose you could look at the pool in back of James Cameron's Malibu estate. Or admire the ornate garden on Haim Saban's Beverly Hills mansion.

John Barber Published on Tuesday, Nov. 10, 2009 10:00PM EST Last updated on Tuesday, Nov.

CHICAGO a * A legal battle between Northwestern University and Cook County prosecutors heated up Tuesday with the allegation that student journalists paid a witness in a murder case they were investigating in 2004 - cash that the witness later used to buy cocaine.

In a case that raises questions about online journalism and privacy rights, the U.S. Department of Justice sent a formal request to an independent news site ordering it to provide details of all reader visits on a certain day.

Report on Pak nukes 'absurd, mischievous': No foreign entity allowed to cross 'red lines': CJCSC * Pakistan has very effective nuclear security regime * Rules out sharing any information about nuclear assets with anyone By Sajjad Malik RAWALPINDI: No foreign entity is allowed to cross the 'red lines' and gain intrusive access to strategic assets, ...

Jennifer Lopez has won a court order barring her first husband from making their sex life public - at least for a day.

Today's major media journalism is biased, irresponsible, sensationalist reporting that distorts, exaggerates or misstates the truth.

An undated family photo shows Sarah Shourd, one of three U.S. hikers detained in Iran since July 31.

Every democracy that aspires to wield its military power effectively requires two things: Citizens who are willing to die for its objectives, and public confidence in its leaders.

THE founder and editor-in-chief of Caijing, China's boldest financial news magazine, resigned on Monday amid friction with the magazine's publisher, a colleague said.

Allegations made by The Guardian that reporters at the News of the World engaged in widespread phone tapping of celebrities' mobile phones will be rejected by the Press Complaints Commission today.

Allegations of phone tapping at Britain's best-selling Sunday newspaper have been dismissed by the industry's watchdog.

Latin American governments are increasingly intervening in the news business, creating and favoring official media, regulating content and distribution and using other legal methods to silence their critics, a newspaper group said Sunday.

This Oct. 26, 2009, photo Northwestern University professor David Protess, founder of the Medill Innocence Project, talks with journalism students at a reporting strategy session in Evanston, Ill.

If you were a newspaper editor, would you run a picture of a young woman and toddler falling from a fire escape? Of a man plunging to his death from the World Trade Center on 9-11? If you were a reporter witnessing heartbreaking scenes as you documented the lives of children sharing homes with drug addicts and alcoholics, what would it take to make ...

The so-called 'newsroom brawl' between an editor and a writer at The Washington Post recently has been a fine distraction for the health-care-weary. The two men apparently came to blows over, of all things, words.

Two Russian nationalists have been arrested and charged in the high-profile killings of a human rights lawyer and journalist who were gunned down in Moscow in January, officials said yesterday.

Right-wing media attack Obama's introductory remarks Fox Nation: "Appropriate? Obama Gives 'Shout Out' Before Fort Hood Remarks." Fox Nation posted a video of the press conference on November 5 with the headline, "Appropriate? Obama Gives 'Shout Out' Before Fort Hood Remarks": Drudge headline: "Obama's Frightening Insensitivity Following ...

NEW YORK Anywhere between five and 15 content providers will start beta testing Journalism Online's system for paid content.

"Why was I, a conventional Twickenham schoolgirl, running round London nightclubs with a con man?" British journalist Lynn Barber asks herself this question in her memoir, published earlier this year.

From the Philadelphia Inquirer: Harry Truman could've taught Barack Obama a thing or two about how to deal with a hostile press -- basically, by ignoring it.

Former Your Black Muslim Bakery leader Yusuf Bey IV and co-defendant Antoine Mackey are scheduled to stand trial May 17 on three counts of murder for the deaths of journalist Chauncey Bailey and two other men in the summer of 2007.

BSS, Dhaka Information and Cultural Affairs Minister Abul Kalam Azad on Thursday said the mass media would have to play more responsible role in upholding the peoples rights.

The historic campus of Washington and Lee University in Lexington, Va., has offered instruction in journalism for well over a century a ' but probably never quite like this.

'Why did I have to sacrifice my life for the cause of justice?' Jarnail Singh, the journalist who hurled a shoe at Home Minister P Chidambaram [ Images ] last April, has written a book on the 1984 anti-Sikh riots.

Instead of figuring out where to put nuclear waste, why can't we just find a way to neutralize it so it's no longer hazardous? Curiosity about what to do with nuclear waste inspired one of the questions in this edition of "Ask AP," a weekly Q&A column where AP journalists respond to readers' questions about the news.

India Gazette Friday 6th November, 2009 New Delhi, Nov 6 : Noted journalist Prabhash Joshi died of a heart attack here last night.

I made The New York Times last week. It even ran my picture. My mother would be proud.

The Men Who Stare at Goats Carmike 10, Chapel Hills 15, Cinemark 16, Hollywood Interquest, Tinseltown "More of this story is true than you would believe," reads the caption at the beginning of The Men Who Stare at Goats , but let's be real: No one involved in this movie goes out of their way to give it the sting of veracity.

Ed Darling, a veteran editor and publisher at newspapers in Mississippi, Alabama and Oklahoma, has announced his retirement as publisher of the Mississippi Business Journal.

Human rights lawyer Stanislav Markelov and reporter Anastasia Baburova were gunned down in Moscow earlier this year Alleged killer Eugenia Khasis, in a black hood, is led by police to court in Moscow.

The University of Illinois is honoring Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Seymour Hersh with its annual Illinois Prize Lifetime Achievement in Journalism.

Several hundred Albanian journalists and other people have protested in Albania's capital over an attack against a prominent journalist and newspaper editor.

Crime reporter Bladimir Antuna Garcia was found murdered Monday night, according local news reports, after reportedly being abducted from a street in the Mexican city of Durango that morning.

Nov 4 - Societe Generale reported a Q3 profit of 426 million euros falling short of forecasts.

THERE have been a fair amount of stories in recent years, and rightly so, about a number of universities around the country whose students have dug up new information about the cases of prisoners who have been wrongfully convicted of crimes they didn't commit.

Former BBC South East presenter Beverley Thompson has swopped her autocue and tv cameras for a major off screen role with SASBAH, Sussex Association for Spina Bifida and Hydrocephalus.

Fierce competition forces journalists to deliver attention-grabbing news and articles.

The winner of this year's Sydney Peace Prize, John Pilger, has labelled the federal government's asylum-seeker policy "illegal and immoral". The celebrated Australian journalist, author and filmmaker will be presented with the Sydney Peace Foundation award on Wednesday.

He is a man with the weight of the world on his shoulders but President Barack Obama appears to be shedding pounds in other areas.

Nov. 3 - Former Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic said he needs more time to prepare for his genocide defence.

Shia rebels shout slogans inside a courtroom holding cell after hearing a verdict sentencing eight of them to death in Sanaa yesterday A Yemeni court yesterday sentenced to death eight men involved in a Shia rebellion, who were arrested last year for fighting government troops north of the capital.

Is the newspaper industry experiencing the beginning of the end? That will be the question posed to a panel of New Hampshire editors and publishers at a Nov.

NEW YORK Gannett's daily newspapers are being urged to improve watchdog journalism, reposition web sites for breaking news, and better engage young readers and Sunday readers, according to a list of priorities issued last month during a meeting of some 40 newspaper editors.

State Rep. John Smithee recently recalled that, in the 1980s, Gov. Bill Clements walked into the House of Representatives and some reporters grilled him on an issue of the day.

ASNE has sent a letter of protest to Illinois State Attorney Anita Alvarez over the subpeona of investigative records by students in the Medill Innocence Project at Northwestern University and over the request of academic records that appears to be harrasment of these students.

"When Everything Changed: The Amazing Journey of American Women from 1960 to the Present" , by Gail Collins: In 1960, a secretary named Lois Rabinowitz was reprimanded by a New York City judge for appearing in court wearing slacks.

Each time another report surfaces about the decline of newspapers, I feel like a death row inmate counting the warden's footsteps.

Toronto Sun Editor-In-Chief Lou Clancy has left behind 45 successful years in the newspaper business.

Myanmar authorities have arrested up to 50 people including journalists, political activists and students in a security crackdown this month in its biggest city, a Thailand-based human rights group said on Friday.

TEL AVIV: Several dozen Israelis protested on Sunday against the arrival in the country of a controversial Swedish journalist who has accused Israel of stealing organs from dead Palestinians.

Nov. 1 - Afghan presidential candidate Abdullah Abdullah pulls out of run-off polls due to take place on 7 November.

Will they stop at nothing? Written by Al Sharpton Thursday, 29 October 2009 11:29 - Freedom of the press unequivocally stands at the core of fundamentals in the United States of America.

NATO forces turn to warlords By Gareth Porter WASHINGTON - The revelation by the New York Times on Wednesday that Ahmed Wali Karzai, the brother of Afghan President Hamid Karzai, has long been on the payroll of the US Central Intelligence Agency , is only the tip of a much bigger iceberg of heavy dependence by US and North Atlantic Treaty ...

The Writers Guild of America East tell the Federal Trade Commission that it is increasingly difficult to create "reliable, informative material in the fact of unrelenting budget cuts," and that the government may need to better fund public media or otherwise protect newsgathering while the country figures out how much it is willing to pay for ...