The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has called on the French satellite company Eutelsat to  reinstall the Chinese-language television station NTDTV and three Mandarin radio stations, following their suppression for “technical reasons” on 16 June 2008.

Newsstand sales of magazines fell 6.3 percent in the first half of 2008, an industry group said Monday, as rising gas and food costs led consumers to cut back on nonessential spending.

CNN announced Tuesday that it would “double its domestic news-gathering presence” by assigning journalists to 10 additional cities across the United States.

Sky News is to integrate its online, television and radio news production operations to form a single multimedia unit. From September 29 more than 130 producers behind Sky News TV, Sky News.com, Sky News Radio and Sky News Active, will become part of one multimedia team, a press release said.

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) admitted that it had cut a deal with China to censor the Internet during the Beijing Games, the South China Morning Post reports.

The BBC has been fined £400,000 by media watchdog Ofcom for misleading its audiences by faking phone-ins.  The Comic Relief, Children in Need and Sport Relief TV shows were caught up in the scandal, along with Liz Kershaw on 6 Music and Jo Whiley's Radio 1 show.

Singapore's Channel NewsAsia has won an award for the best contribution to the ASEAN television news exchange.

NHK-Japan has banned its reporters and other employees who have access to its news information management system from stock trading, reports Kyodo News.

Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty journalist Babek Bekir, who recently produced a series of reports on the Azerbaijani drug trade, was honoured today with that country's most prestigious journalism award.

Spanish private television channel Telecinco said Wednesday it had won a lawsuit it filed against YouTube accusing the world's top video-sharing site of violating its intellectual property rights.

Using the Internet from mobile devices is a lot more popular than some of us realize, and even more surprising is the fact that the US leads the pack when it comes to mobile Internet usage.

European news channel Euronews launched an Arabic feed on Saturday, following an internet premiere on Friday evening. The channel, which already broadcasts into seven languages is targeting several million potential viewers.

As the US economy stumbled in the second quarter, magazine ad sales fell more than 8 percent, with the steepest drops in ads for vehicles and for computers and related equipment, according to a report released Thursday. The report, compiled by the Publishers Information Bureau, shows the industry’s troubles growing worse.

Beijing Olympic organisers opened to journalists yesterday the Games media centre, the biggest in the history of the sporting movement, officials said.The Main Press Centre, near the Olympic Stadium, will be formally inaugurated by Liu Qi, head of the Beijing Olympic organising committee, tomorrow, one month before the Games begin, centre director Li Jingbo said.

A journalist recently released after six years detention in Guantanamo Bay has been appointed as Al Jazeera's news producer for liberties and human rights affairs, reports C21-Media.net