Arizona lawmakers go after newspaper notices
KPHO Channel 5 reports that Republicans in the Arizona House of Representatives again are trying to repeal a mandate that makes local governments publish public notices in ...
View ArticleFrancis may let heads roll at Vatican Curia
Pope Francis has indicated heads may roll at the Vatican's fractious governing bureaucracy, a cardinal said before the pontiff's inaugural mass Tuesday. High-level Vatican officials received letters...
View ArticlePress regulation deal at risk after newspaper groups refusal
The proposed new system of press regulation has encountered difficulties after major newspaper groups refused to sign off on the deal. The groups, in charge of the publication ...
View ArticleNewspaper review Concerns over press watchdog deal
Tuesday's papers have plenty to say on the political deal for a new press regulator, backed by royal charter. The Times speaks of a bleak episode in the story of press freedom. It says the prime...
View ArticleU.S. citizen picked as Syria opposition PM
Syria's main opposition group Tuesday picked a naturalized U.S. citizen as its first prime minister, hours after Syrian warplanes attacked targets in Lebanon. The prime minister vote and Syrian...
View ArticleGlimmers of hope for troubled newspapers
The U.S. newspaper industry is seeing some glimmers of hope after being battered for years, a prominent study concluded Monday.While the industry is about half the size it once was, there are some...
View ArticleZee News editors Twitter row Delhi court orders registration of FIR against...
Sudhir Chaudhary .Chaudhary alleged that nasty tweets were being posted on his Twitter account after a Rs 100 cr extortion case was registered against him in November 2012.Metropolitan magistrate...
View ArticleTuesday newspaper round-up Citigroup RBS easyJet...
news ) is to pay 730m dollars to settle claims about allegedly misleading investors over its exposure to subprime mortgages between 2006 and 2008, reports the Financial Times. The paper says that this...
View ArticlePress regulation newspapers bridle at historic deal
A shellshocked newspaper industry was struggling to come to terms with a sudden all-party agreement to create a powerful new press regulator designed to prevent a repeat of the phone-hacking...
View ArticleBritish Newspapers Challenge New Press Rules
LONDON - A day after British lawmakers agreed to ground rules for a new press code, an array of newspapers protested on Tuesday against the attempt to impose stricter curbs on this country's...
View ArticleFrench Newspaper Reprints Controversial Cartoons
Paris, Feb. 1 2006 (VOA News) -- A French newspaper has published Danish cartoons of the Prophet Mohammed that have stirred outrage in the Muslim world. France-Soir newspaper says it is simply...
View ArticleNamibia Swapo Editors Libel Claim Under Attack
THE political arena is not a place for thin-skinned people who like dishing out sharp criticism but then cry foul when they receive a dose of their own medicine. This was the thrust of an argument...
View ArticleBloggers may face libel fines under press regulation deal
Bloggers could face high fines for libel under the new Leveson deal with exemplary damages imposed if they don't sign up to the new regulator, it was claimed on Tuesday.Kirsty Hughes, the chief...
View ArticleUnited Russia lawmaker challenges editor to have public discussion
MOSCOW, March 19 (Itar-Tass) – Deputy secretary of United Russia's General Council, lawmaker Andrei Isayev said he is ready to publicly discuss his disagreements with editor-in-chief of the newspaper...
View ArticleMarch 19 A gay teen’s battle and other letters to the editor
It's not often that a teenager can shame a minister of the Crown (Gay Teen Holds The Line For Bullying Bill - March 18). In standing up to Vic Toews and his attack on Manitoba's Bill 18, Evan Wiens has...
View ArticleJerusalem Ramallah gear up for Obama
Barack Obama 's first presidential visit, officials said. In Jerusalem, thousands of Israel police and army units are to be deployed along the routes Obama and his entourage will use during the...
View ArticlePress regulation local newspapers fear rush of compensation claims
Archant chief, Adrian Jeakings, says the system of arbitration for small complaints proposed by politicians could cripple local newspapers. Photograph: David Levene for the ...
View ArticleNewspapers worried about new UK media regulation
"UNFREE SPEECH," was the headline of London's business-oriented free sheet City A.M. The Sun, Britain's top-selling tabloid, compared the new body to the infamous Ministry of Truth from George Orwell's...
View ArticleNewspaper groups react to Royal Charter
Newspaper groups have likened the two legislative changes that will back up the Royal Charter on Self Regulation of the Press published yesterday, to George Orwell's '1984', and said that they threaten...
View ArticleSyrian rebels deny use of chemical weapons
Rebel forces in Syria denied government accusations they used chemical weapons in an attack in Aleppo Tuesday, killing at least 16 people. Foreign media outlets reported at least 16 people were killed...
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