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South Africa: Case studies examine community newspaper successes

Posted by Maddie Hanna on July 7, 2006 at 10:59 AM
The Sol Plaatje Institute for Media Leadership just released six case studies of successful South African community newspapers, examining the challenges they face and what business and editorial strategies they adopted to surmount those challenges.
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Egypt: Party tries to rebuild paper by hiring competitor's editor

Posted by Maddie Hanna on July 6, 2006 at 3:14 PM
In order to win back readers from Al-Misri Al-Yawm, Egypt’s liberal Al-Wafd party recently selected the competing paper’s former editor-in-chief, Anwar al-Huwwari, to head the party's publication.
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Egypt: Seven papers will not publish Sunday to protest for press freedom

Posted by Maddie Hanna on July 5, 2006 at 4:55 PM
Seven independent Egyptian papers announced Wednesday they will not publish editions this Sunday to protest the “horrifying image” of press freedom in Egypt.
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Brand loyalty: How newspapers can survive the digital age

Posted by Maddie Hanna on July 5, 2006 at 3:32 PM
Newspapers will survive the online revolution. Editors around the world have echoed the boldly simple statement in recent months, defending the future of their publications. The “why” and “how” questions that follow can easily go unaddressed, but Sunday Telegraph editor Patience Wheatcroft has an answer: brand loyalty.
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Axel Springer to launch Bild-style French daily this fall

Posted by Maddie Hanna on July 5, 2006 at 2:19 PM
Publishing giant Axel Springer will launch a new paid-for daily in France this fall modeled after its German tabloid Bild, the most popular newspaper in Europe.
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BBC plans personalized radio service

Posted by Maddie Hanna on July 5, 2006 at 11:58 AM
The BBC plans to offer a “personalized” radio service that will use peer-to-peer internet technology to provide “thousands, ultimately millions, of individual radio services created by audiences themselves,” BBC Director-General Mark Thompson said at this week’s Radio Festival in Cambridge.
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DR Congo: French journalist expelled before national elections

Posted by Maddie Hanna on July 5, 2006 at 11:15 AM
As campaigning builds for the Democratic Republic of Congo’s first free national elections in more than 40 years, on Monday the country expelled a French journalist without official explanation.
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China: Proposed press restrictions extend to foreign media

Posted by Maddie Hanna on July 4, 2006 at 3:15 PM
One important question about the Chinese draft law that proposes to fine news media for reporting on “sudden incidents” without permission was answered Monday: the crackdown would apply to foreign media as well.
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Singapore: Media company to undergo regional, online expansion

Posted by Maddie Hanna on July 4, 2006 at 2:43 PM
Southeast Asia’s largest media group, Singapore Press Holdings, will strive to increase its online presence, develop new print products and expand its regional magazine and outdoor-advertising businesses, chairman Tony Tan announced Saturday.
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Brunei's second newspaper launches

Posted by Maddie Hanna on July 3, 2006 at 3:10 PM
Brunei’s second newspaper, the English language Brunei Times, launched Saturday with the motto “Fresh Ideas, New Option, Global Vision.” The government hopes the daily publication — which includes local, regional and international news stories — will facilitate the flow of information throughout the country.

Source: BruneiDirect.com (through Ifra Executive News Service)
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US: NYT, LAT editors defend decision to publish controversial story

Posted by Maddie Hanna on July 3, 2006 at 12:34 PM

The controversy that erupted a little more than a week ago after several major US newspapers published details of a government program that tracks the financial activity of potential terrorists has yet to die down.

In response to escalating criticism, the Los Angeles Times’ Dean Baquet and the New York Times’ Bill Keller crafted a joint op-ed that ran Saturday in both papers, defending their decisions to publish the story against the government’s will.

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Laws stir press freedom debate in Russia, Vietnam, China

Posted by Maddie Hanna on July 3, 2006 at 11:20 AM
A piece of recently introduced legislation in Russia and a new decree in Vietnam have both stirred debate about the murky state of press freedom in the two countries.
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Sweden: Court fines Metro for deceptive front page ad

Posted by Maddie Hanna on June 30, 2006 at 3:49 PM
The Swedish Market Court just slapped Metro International with a fine of half a million kronor (close to $70,000) for running an ad that covered the entire front page of its 11 November 2004 Swedish edition, blurring the line between editorial and advertising content.
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UK: Proposed London freesheet to drive up competition

Posted by Maddie Hanna on June 30, 2006 at 2:18 PM
The implications of introducing a new London afternoon freesheet might not seem that far reaching, but when Network Rail announces the winning tender for its distribution contract in two weeks, even Britain’s national newspapers could get caught up in the soon-to-be-surging free paper competition.
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Murdoch may sell local US stations to buy back stock

Posted by Maddie Hanna on June 30, 2006 at 12:03 PM
Rupert Murdoch has plans to sell several of News Corp’s local US television stations in order to buy back an 18 percent shareholder stake from billionaire John Malone, The Australian reported Thursday.
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