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Slain Russian journalist kept eye on Chechnya

10 Oct 2006

Russia's most outspoken opposition journalist, Anna Politkovskaya, was murdered Saturday, alarming not only her colleagues in the media but also the country's dwindling human rights community."No one has any idea who exactly killed her, or...

Newspaper Survival Guide

6 Oct 2006

A surprising, and heartening, number of bright american college studentsplan to try their hand at print newspapers, despite gloomy questioning by some outsiders as to whether the print newspaper is an endangered species. The answer to that q...

Jackson Pushes Media Ownership Activism

6 Oct 2006

Framing media ownership as a civil rights issue and saying it was time to mobilize against further media consolidation, Rainbow PUSH founder the Reverend Jesse Jackson told a Washington policy luncheon audience Monday that his group planned to h...

RTNDF Study Finds Local Television Remains the Dominant Source of News

6 Oct 2006

More Americans choose local television news as one of their top three sources for news than any other form of traditional or new media, according to The Future of News Survey conducted for the Radio and Television News Directors Foundation. A to...

WACC Board celebrates opening of new offices in Toronto, Canada

4 Oct 2006

Randy Naylor, General Secretary; Piet Halma, Vice-President, and Douglas duCharme minister of Hope United Church cut the ribbon to o...

Pols join Jackson in media debate

27 Sep 2006

Several federal government officials joined longtime civil rights leader Rev. Jesse Jackson in deploring the state of minority media ownership and "white male domination" of public affairs programming. Speaking at a Rainbow Push Coa...

WACC relocates to Toronto

26 Sep 2006

The World Association for Christian Communication has chosen Toronto as the new site for its global headquarters. The international media rights advocacy and training organisation will operate from a newly-renovated church in the heart of the ci...

FM Licence Thrown Back At Ofcom

23 Sep 2006

Commercial radio company UKRD is to become the first media owner to take the radical step of handing back a radio licence.UKRD - which owns 10 commercial radio stations across England - is to hand back the FM licence for Star Radio in Stroud to...

News flows like water - even in China

21 Sep 2006

Beijing leaders are looking more like King Canute, the English monarch who ordered the tide to retreat. Their attempts to ban certain types of news seem downright silly to those Chinese who now thrive on global flows of information in a buzzing...

The Lesson of 9/11

21 Sep 2006

Television that takes chances always gets our attention and applause; the medium is bolder and better than ever. But criticism of ABC's controversial two-part movie The Path to 9/11, which began airing on the night of the fifth anniversary of th...