Global Tv-news/France

AFP/Yahoo: France's 24-hr international TV network to hit airwaves

Media Restrictions/China

The Guardian: China to relax media restrictions

"China has moved to relax its infamously draconian restrictions on media coverage for the run-up to the 2008 Beijing Olympics. The new regulations abolish decades-old rules that require foreign reporters to obtain government approval for all travel and interviews."

Citizen Journalism

The New York Times: Have Camera Phone? Yahoo and Reuters Want You to Work for Their News Service

"There is an ongoing demand for interesting and iconic images," said Chris Ahearn, the president of the Reuters media group. He said the agency had always bought newsworthy pictures from individuals and part-time contributors known as stringers."

Yahoo´s You Witness News

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War Reporting/Language/Iraq

E&P: 'Civil' Disobedience Spreads - 'NYT' Adjusts Language on Iraq

"In the wake of the highly-publicized NBC and MSNBC decision to start referring to the conflict in Iraq as a "civil war," other media outlets, which have long used phrases such as "sectarian violence," are re-considering their language in this regard."

Election Coverage/U.S.

Project for Excellence in Journalism: Election Night 2006 - An Evening in the Life of the American Media

"Perhaps the destinations best suited to Election Night 2006 were the Web sites of TV news operations, plus one aggregator. They offered a combination of quick access to results plus the ability of users—largely through access to exit poll data or Associated Press material—to plumb a wealth of statistical information on their own."

Google News/Copyrights/Belgium

Computerworld: Google reaches deal with two Belgian press groups

Global tv-news/Al-Jazeera

Bloomberg: Al Jazeera Takes on CNN, BBC With English Language News Channel

Global tv-news channels

The Economist: News of the world

"About a dozen news channels now go out internationally, with more ready to run. The BBC has revived its own Arab venture, which is set to hit small screens next year. CNN International has made money for several years, but few of the new channels offering 24-hour rolling news seem likely to turn a profit any time soon."

Reporting on Crisis/Katrina Aftermath

E & P: Editors at APME Tour Katrina Devastation: Can't Believe Eyes

“It is always better to have an eyewitness account,” Newseum Executive Director Joe Urschel said as the tour ended. “It is more unsettling because it is real. It is not just a clip on television.”

RSF´s Press Freedom Index 2006

RSF: North Korea, Turkmenistan, Eritrea the worst violators of press freedom -
France, the United States and Japan slip further Mauritania and Haiti gain much ground

Global Business News Business

International Herald Tribune: Dow Jones to buy rest of Factiva from joint venture partner Reuters for $160 million

CNN/Christiane Amanpour/Lecture

The Stanford Daily: CNN Correspondent recalls legacy of journalist and alum

"Speaking without notes to a standing-room-only audience, Amanpour offered insights, not only from her experience as a prolific foreign correspondent, but also as a critic of her own industry and a first-hand observer of world conflicts. Her subject matter ranged from diminishing international support for the War on Terror to her view that journalism has become too heavily beholden to profits and, consequently, too trivial."

“I’ve seen wholesale cuts in foreign bureaus,
wholesale retreat from foreign news coverage,
” she said. “It could not come at a worse time,
with the world so tense, with policy being so
heavily politicized that it is so difficult even to
figure out where is the truth.”

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Foreign Correspondents/Telegraph

The Guardian: More foreign moves at Telegraph

Global Tv-news-channel/BBC/Iran

BBC News: BBC to launch TV channel for Iran

War Reporting/Iraq

E &P/AP: Threats to Journalists Rise in Iraq

Humanitarian Crises/Africa/CNN

USA Today: CNN initiative helps get the most difficult news out of Africa

War Reporting/Iraq

The New York Times: Anti-U.S. Attack Videos Spread on Web

Press Freedom/Russia

The New York Times: Journalist Critical of Chechen War Is Shot Dead

BBC News: Obituary: Anna Politkovskaya

More: Google News

Journalists at Work/Statistics

Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ):

"Five hundred and eighty journalists have been killed for their work over the past 15 years, many on the orders of government and military officials, a new investigation by the Committee to Protect Journalists has found."

Deadly News Report

Archives/Statistics

War Reporting/Iraq

Editor & Publisher: 'NYT' War Reporter: 'Anarchy' Curtails Reporting in Iraq

Court Ruling/Google News/Belgium

Guardian Unlimited: Google to appeal, as court rules news site is illegal

Media Anniversary Hype

Washington Post/Howard Kurtz: Katrina Redux

"I am not a big fan of media anniversary hype. The avalanche of "one year after" and "five years after" stories always strike me as a form of journalistic laziness. - - And yet, I find myself pleased that the one-year benchmark, artificial as it is, has produced a spate of good reporting about Hurricane Katrina and finally put the national spotlight back on the Gulf Coast."

Global tv-news

The Guardian: CNN takes a closer look at Africa

Google News

The Guardian: Google News inventor Krishna Bharat is unperturbed by the accusation that his product may be undermining the relevance and revenue of print titles

Web Censorship

BBC News: Web censorship: Correspondent reports

"As human rights group Amnesty International launches a global campaign to try to halt censorship of the internet by governments, BBC correspondents report from some countries where web users face difficulties."

International Reporting

Reuters: Times eyes more foreign deals, 10,000 US readers

"Many of the great papers in the U.S. that had networks of correspondents have trimmed them at a time when U.S. interest in the outside world is increasing," the Times´ U.S. edition´s editor Robert Thomson said.

"This provides an opportunity, particularly in a global city like New York, for an alternative supply of high quality foreign coverage."

War Correspondents

NY Times: Iraq Becomes Deadliest of Modern Wars for Journalists

News Agencies

The Guardian: Reuters recruits 100 journalists

Foreign Correspondents

Broadcasting & Cable: APTN Opens North Korea Bureau

Foreign Correspondents

Broadcasting & Cable: NBC Opens Beirut Bureau

Under-reported Stories

UPI: Ten Stories That Desperately Need to Be Told

"Every year, the U.N.'s Department of Public Information (DPI) unveils its list of the world's 10 most under-reported stories, implying that politics, murder and sex scandals still take precedence over poverty, peace-building or economic development."

"The list, released by the United Nations Monday, covers a wide range of stories -- from the plight of asylum seekers and refugees in ongoing conflicts to earthquake relief and post-war reconstruction -- that received little or no play in the world media."

Global TV-news

The Guardian: English al-Jazeera eyes June launch

"Al-Jazeera's new English-language news service, al-Jazeera International, could launch globally as early as June, its managing director Nigel Parsons revealed today."