Posted by John Burke on October 10, 2006 at 3:41 PM
The UK's Daily Telegraph has appointed its third editor in a year's time. Will Lewis, 37, will take the reins, stepping up from his former position, managing director of editorial and replacing acting editor John Bryant. Lewis is digital-minded and will help the paper through its much publicized transition to an integrated newsroom. But is this the right move for owner the Barclay Brothers and CEO Murdoch MacLennan?
In China, the conflict between print and online media is coming to a head, a
Poynter Institute contributor
writes, the declining traditional print industry face to face with an ever-booming Internet media explosion.
French daily Le Monde reports in today’s edition that European anti-terrorism services have recently reinforced their measures against attacks. For months now, Al-Quaida has been allegedly organizing a “mission” aimed to punish the designers of the Mohammed cartoons published by Danish newspaper Jyllands Posten. According to Hamir Mir, chief editor of Pakistani daily Ausaf, a group of twelve terrorists (nine Afghans and three Pakistanis) is already heading for Denmark.