Thursday 12 July 2007
By Leah McBride Mensching,
Thursday 12 July 2007 at 22:22 :: World Digital Media Trends
Nielsen//Net Ratings has named the top 30 U.S. newspaper Web sites based on site traffic in June, with The New York Times coming out on top, and The Boston Globe bumping The Wall Street Journal to sixth place, from fifth in May.
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By Leah McBride Mensching,
Thursday 12 July 2007 at 22:20 :: Media Ownership
The battle over top French financial daily Les Echos took a turn Thursday when it received a 245 million euro offer from the financial services group Fimalac.
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By Leah McBride Mensching,
Thursday 12 July 2007 at 22:19 :: Labor & Employment
Striking, locked-out employees of the Quebecor Inc. tabloid Journal de Quebec picketed the newspaper's offices Wednesday for the first time since conflict began April 22, after a meeting between the union and management broke down.
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By Leah McBride Mensching,
Thursday 12 July 2007 at 22:16 :: Labor & Employment
A federal labour agency has accused the Washington Post on Thursday of repeatedly violating labour laws by failing to negotiate with the newspaper's union over extra work employees performed for its radio station.
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By Erina Lin,
Thursday 12 July 2007 at 22:12 :: Young Reader
Harvard University has released a study showing that 60 percent of U.S. teenagers pay little attention to daily news, according to Reuters report.
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By Erina Lin,
Thursday 12 July 2007 at 22:11 :: General
Young audiences are spending more time listening to the radio, and radio profits are up in Europe, a recent study has found.
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By Erina Lin,
Thursday 12 July 2007 at 22:09 :: General
TV advertising in the United Kingdom will decline one percent after falling four percent last year, and should be flat next year, according to WPP’s Group M media planning and buying arm. Radio advertising will be flat this year and grow one percent in 2008, the group predicts.
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By Leah McBride Mensching,
Thursday 12 July 2007 at 21:37 :: General
The Daily Afrikaans newspaper Beeld has launched a mobile addition to add a “third avenue” to reach readers.
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By Leah McBride Mensching,
Thursday 12 July 2007 at 21:32 :: General
A Reuters photographer and driver were killed in Baghdad Thursday.
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By Leah McBride Mensching,
Thursday 12 July 2007 at 21:24 :: Press Freedom & Laws
China's ban of online publication China Development Brief amounts to “growing censorship of socio-economic news, preventing any reliable assessment of the real state of the country” the group Reporters Without Borders stated Thursday.
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