Russian Tycoon Likens Trial to Political Witch-Hunt
MOSCOW Russian banker and media magnate Alexander Lebedev on Wednesday likened his trial for throwing a punch during a TV talk show to a political witch-hunt, and said the charge of hooliganism ...
View ArticleLetter to the Editor Keep guns out of schools
SINTON -- Let's put the fat into fire. Yes, we do need gun control. What do you do with a child who continues to write on the wall with crayons? Take away the crayons. Yes, NRA, guns do kill ...
View ArticleEditor’s Notebook You know you’re part of Sewickley community if...
Whether you've grown up in Sewickley or have moved here later in your life, there are signs that can reveal that you definitely are part of the ...
View ArticleUPDATE 2-Spain newspaper sorry for false photo of Chavez
(Adds quotes, details, background, Caracas dateline) MADRID/CARACAS, Jan 24 (Reuters) - Spain's influential El Pais newspaper apologised on Thursday for publishing a "false photo" ...
View ArticleSpain newspaper sorry for fake Chavez hospital picture
Spain's leading newspaper El Pais apologised Thursday after publishing a photograph supposedly of ailing Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez in his hospital bed, and then discovering the patient ...
View Articlei Editors Letter iWriters competition
Last year, more than half of the 600 iWriters competition entries arrived in the final 24 hours - typical of both students and journalists. But, a tip on behalf of tutors and editors: early copy ...
View ArticlePrint’s Financial Future May Last Longer than Expected According to New Reports
by: Rick Edmonds | Poynter As this year begins, three notable reports share the same conclusion about the future of news: The path we are on is uncertain and debatable. But two of the three ...
View ArticleAIM Media Texas Announces Digital AIM
by: The Brownsville Herald AIM Media Texas announced Thursday the formation and launch of Digital AIM, an organization working across all operating units of the company to provide digital ...
View ArticleGoogle Facebook and Twitter May Face EU Defamation and Privacy Cases
by: Henry McDonald | The Guardian Google, Facebook and Twitter's decision to establish their European bases in Dublin has opened the internet giants up to EU defamation and privacy laws like ...
View ArticleMedia Talk podcast off to Oxford we go
on why it is taking Rupert Murdoch so long to appoint new editors of the Times and Sunday Times, and we ask what's the score with News International's deal for Premier League football ...
View ArticleGuardian sports writer Frank Keating dies aged 75
Frank Keating, one of Britain's leading sports writers over the past 50 years, has died at the age of 75.He passed away at St Michael's Hospice, Hereford, on Friday. He had been suffering ...
View ArticleMiss Vogue launch greeted with caution by health campaigners
Miss Vogue will be given away free with British Vogue in June. It follows the 2003 US launch of Teen Vogue, which was the focus of an anti-Photoshop campaign last ...
View ArticleMeteorologists puzzled by abnormal weather - from the Guardian archive 25 Jan...
weather . The extraordinary variations of this abnormal season appear, however, to have completely puzzled the meteorologists, and there has been less disposition than usual to hazard conjectures ...
View ArticleRelatives of Mexicos Disappeared Continue Fight for Justice With Memorial Museum
MEXICO CITY, MEXICO -- The last time Mar?a Concepci?n ?vila Gonz?lez, 55, and her mother, Matilde Gonz?lez, saw their brother and son, Jes?s ?vila Gonz?lez, was on April 5, 1974. He was 23 years old ...
View ArticleMyanmar dissolves press censorship division
Myanmar has dissolved its Press Scrutiny and Registration Division, a follow-up move after domestic media publication control was totally liberalized in August 2012, the official media reported ...
View ArticleLetter to the Editor- Hubert Ingraham Can’t Be Serious
Hubert Ingraham Can't Be Serious Dear Editor, When I heard on Thursday, January 24 that former Prime Minister Hubert Ingraham will now vote no and he is asking Bahamians to do so, I was ...
View ArticleWatch Rachel Maddow and Bill Moyers Take on Rupert Murdochs Media Empire
Rachel Maddow interviewed Bill Moyers on her show last night about the Rupert Murdoch scandal in Britain and why media empires are so dangerous. Watch the clip ...
View ArticleWashington Post profiles new head of March for Life
On the day of the March for Life, the Washington Post has published a profile of Jeanne Monahan, the new head organizer for the annual march. The Post story contrasts Monahan's approach with ...
View ArticleDeaths reported in Egyptian protests
The second anniversary of the launch of the protest movement in Egypt provoked large demonstrations and violent clashes that left at least six people dead. Scores of people were injured in Tahrir ...
View ArticleBaseball bat attack on newspaper delivery man
Photo / File "Are you ready to die today?" Those were the words were uttered by an attacker moments before he used a baseball bat to bash Richard Frederick. The blow hit Mr ...
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