Iraqi newspaper employees targeted with knives and swords
Iraqi policemen inspect the premisses of the al-Mustaqbal (The Future) newspaper in the Karrada district of Baghdad on April 2, 2013, following an attack. (AFP PHOTO/SABAH ARAR) Four people were...
View ArticleGillard seeks tighter North Korea controls
During an official visit to Beijing this week Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard will urge China to pressure North Korea to abandon nuclear weapons ...
View ArticlePower station attack death toll rises to 8
The death toll in a militant attack that destroyed a power station in Peshawar rose to eight as more bodies were found, Pakistani authorities said. Dawn newspaper reported Wednesday eight bodies of...
View ArticleGunmen raid offices of 4 newspapers in Baghdad
A man cleans up the offices of the Iraqi newspaper, the Constitution, in Baghdad, Iraq, Tuesday, April 2, 2013. Iraqi officials say on Monday, April 1, 2013 gunmen, some wearing military uniforms,...
View ArticleWednesday newspaper round-up BP RBS Stobart...
Wed 03 Apr 2013 LONDON (SHARECAST) - Oil major BP has put its US wind-power unit up for sale as it continues to pull back from renewable energy and turn to its core oil and gas business, according to...
View ArticleSeriously New York Times Calls Wall Street Front Group Center-Left
Some lies will not die. As I have demonstrated repeatedly, Third Way is Wall Street on the Potomac. It is funded secretly by Wall Street (it refuses to reveal its donors), it is openly run by Wall...
View ArticleNewspaper chain said to be for sale
News Corp. is exploring the sale of its Dow Jones Local Media Group, the collection of community newspapers mainly on the East Coast but that also includes The Record, company officials confirmed ...
View ArticleMalaysia set for elections
Najib Tun Razak dissolved Parliament Wednesday, readying the country for what could be hard-fought general elections. In a national televised address, Najib, who heads the United Malays National...
View ArticleAuto Trader publisher announces new chief executive
Auto Trader publisher Trader Media Group has hired Trevor Mather as its new chief executive.Mather, currently chief executive of IT consultancy ThoughtWorks, replaces John ...
View ArticleApril 3 The darker side of the Sunshine List and other letters to the editor
Re The Dark Side Of The Sunshine List (April 2): Your editorial grossly understates the reality when you refer to salary increases, from 1996 to the present, for the Durham region medical officer of...
View ArticleUSDA investigates LA kosher meat market
The U.S. Department of Agriculture announced that it has launched an investigation of the Doheny Glatt Kosher meat market in Los Angeles. Michael Engelman, the owner of Doheny, faces allegations that...
View ArticleTony Halls new turn Paul Dacres old routine | Media Monkey
The Daily Mail, unsurprisingly, wasn't impressed by Tony Hall's Ken Dodd/Andrew Marr turn on his first day as director general. Photograph: Oli Scarff/Getty ...
View ArticleEmployee behavior tracked via databases
U.S. retailers are using databases that may have inaccurate information to track workers accused of theft on the job, a review indicated. While the information in databases usually has limited details...
View ArticleHillary Clinton returns to the spotlight
Hillary Clinton returned to the spotlight at a Washington awards gala for an organization she helped create. Clinton, a former first lady and U.S. senator, was greeted by several dozen supporters of a...
View ArticleNews Corp. Is Said to Consider Sale of Its Community Newspapers
by: Edmund Lee | Bloomberg News Corp. (NWSA) is considering the sale of its Dow Jones Local Media unit, a group of community papers such as ...
View ArticleCo.Exist Is Hiring An Assistant Editor
Fast Company's Co.Exist is expanding in 2013, and we're looking for an Assistant Editor to help us as we grow. Are you tapped into the world of social entrepreneurship, social innovation, and...
View ArticleUC Irvine Newspaper Asks for Student Funding
by: Jeremiah Dobruck | Daily Pilot The death of newsprint may hit UC Irvine's newspaper unless students hand over their votes - and money - in an upcoming election. Just like newspapers across the...
View ArticleThe Orange County Register’s New Owners Want to Reinvent Newspapers From the...
don’t have a background in newspapers or journalism: between them, Aaron Kushner and his partner Eric Spitz have built a number of online businesses, including a greeting-card company and one that...
View ArticleMali - Malian editor released conditionally after one month in prison
editor Boukary Daou's release yesterday after a month in detention, the final weeks of which he spent sharing a cell with 50 other detainees in Bamako's main prison."An ordeal has ended for this...
View ArticleUK Urged to Reconsider Post-Leveson Media Proposals
by: Committee to Protect Journalists New York, April 2, 2013-Britain is a global beacon of press freedom, and any attempt to embed U.K. press regulation in law has far-reaching implications for much of...
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