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Huffington Post more valuable than Canwest
"As long-rumored, The Huffington Post took $25 million in new funding at a $100 million valuation. It's a healthy sum given the company has aggregated a huge audience -- 8.8 million people a month, accordng to... Head of NYTimes Online Leaves for NPR
Big news in the world of big media: the head of online operations for The New York Times, Vivian Schiller, will be leaving the venerable newspaper to take over as president and chief executive of National Public... 269 views | 7 comments | 29 recommendations
Wall Street Journal Asia edition fined $25,000
The Wall Street Journal's Asia edition have been fined for publishing news items about the independence of Singapore's courts. The Journal had published three items in June and July this year attacking the... Beatles bigger than Jesus? Just a Lennon joke: Vatican Media
The Vatican's media marked the 40th anniversary of the "White Album" by dismissing as a "quip" John Lennon's notorious claim that the Beatles were bigger than Jesus Christ."The Vatican's newspaper, Osservatore... Zimbabwean spokesman still faces the death penalty for treason after speaking...
Last week a Zimbabwean court remanded opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) party secretary general Tendai Biti's trial for speaking out against Robert Mugabe to next month.Although two of the four charges were dropped, the charge of treason against Biti and for... Venezuelan-Russian naval exercises rise concerns in the region
"November 10 Ex Colombian President worried by Venezuelan-Russian naval exercises Former Colombian President Andrés Pastrana (1998-2002) is concerned by the unprecedented joint naval exercises between ... Report says govt failure factor in Brazil's deadliest plane crash
The airbus A320, from TAM airlines, crashed in Sao Paulo's Congonhas airport in July 2007 killing 199 people. Now a report says that the accident was caused by a government failure. " Brazil's deadliest... Peter Ladner's 40 year grudge - and the truth behind it
Rod Mickleburgh at The Globe digs into the details of Peter Ladner's history at the UBC student newspaper and discovers some interesting tidbits."Man, Peter Ladner sure holds a grudge. In this case for nearly 40 years. His bitterness at being passed over for editorship of the...Medvedev Urges Obama to Rethink Missile Shield Plans
Russian president Dmitry Medvedev has said he will call of his threat to deploy missiles in the Kaliningrad region, a Russian excave within the EU, if Barack Obama calls off the Bush Administration's plans to build a missile defense system in Poland and the Czech Republic. An...38 views | 3 comments | 7 recommendations
Obama likely change CIA, NI directors: report
"WASHINGTON: The current chiefs of National Intelligence and the CIA expect to be replaced when Barack Obama takes over as US president on January 20, a U.S. daily reported Wednesday.Several senior Democrats oppose keeping National Intelligence director Mike McConnell and...Journalists denied visas for India after critical reporting
"Written by www.daily.pk Monday, 10 November 2008 20:17 Reporters Without Borders has condemned the Indian embassy in Sweden after journalists were denied visas after writing critical reports about the country. “This points to a lack of... Some 110,000 kids die of water borne diseases annually in Bangladesh
It is a huge number of untimely death, and the reason is investment of 4-5 dollar to buy water filters.This world is very very strange, the divide is growing day by day in every pssible form, and the... Pentagon used secret authority to strike Qaeda: report
"WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Since 2004, the Pentagon has used broad, secret authority to carry out about 12 attacks against al Qaeda and other militants in Syria, Pakistan and elsewhere, The New York Times reported on its Web site on Sunday. Quoting what it said were more...How do Arabs view Barack Obama’s choice for chief of staff
"Written by www.daily.pk Friday, 07 November 2008 18:30 "There could not be a more provocative appointment than Rahm Emanuel, if he wanted to send a signal that he is going to stick by a quite hard-line pro-Israel policy..." A day after his...Arab Countries and Israel Praise American Way
Warning of the perils of a US policy which consists of keeping oil at an acceptable price, most middle eastern newspapers seemed to praise the American Way at its best these elections represented. "The official paper of the government led by Prime Minister Nuri...
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