The PANPA Future Forum and Newspaper of the Year Awards, held last week, brought over a thousand colleagues together in the quest for ideas to fuel the future of the industry and to celebrate the best that last year had to offer. This week's News Now is a wrap-up of the events in pictures. These images and more can be ...

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THESE are the last days to register for the Future Forum and the Newspaper of the Year dinner.Registrations and the dinner ticket sales will close at midday on Tuesday.More than 400 will turn out for the Newspaper of the Year dinner, to be held at Darling Harbour, Sydney.There will be a strong contingent of New Zealand executives, as well as ...

THE New Zealand Herald iPad offering is one of the most exciting from our region so far.Opening with a slide of moving images, video and audio content, the app has a fast and up-to-the-minute feel.The New Zealand Herald has opted for the online presentation of content over the traditional newspaper layout, which The Australian chose to do with its iPad ...

A UK newspaper hired a cartoonist to cover a football match after its photographers were banned from the grounds.Home-team Southhampton FC restricted access to a single official photographer, with the intention of forcing media outlets to buy from a single agency.In response to this, the Plymouth Herald commissioned artist Chris Robinson to produce images of the Southhampton FC vs Plymouth ...

IN the past five years 56 journalists have been killed in Mexico, mostly by drug gangs, according to the Inter-American Press Association (IAPA).This year alone, 12 journalists have been killed and eight have disappeared, the Wall Street Journal reports."Mexico is the most dangerous country in the Americas for journalists right now," Ricardo Trotti, the IAPA's director for freedom of the ...

GED Bulmer was announced as the new managing editor of Carsguide last week, after eight year as editor of ACP's Wheels magazine.Mr Bulmer will be responsible for editorial content and direction across the Carsguide portfolio of properties, including print, online and mobile. News Limited's masthead motoring editorial team and online editorial team will report to Mr Bulmer.The publisher of Carsguide, ...

A JUDGE ruled yesterday that Sydney tabloid, the Daily Telegraph, had not significantly damaged the reputation of former Guantanamo Bay detainee Mamdouh Habib.Judge Peter McClellan awarded Mr Habib only "minimal" damages of A$5000 in the defamation case, according to the Daily Telegraph.

ANOTHER decree released by the interim government of Fiji is set to change all written laws by deleting the word "Fijian" wherever it appears and replacing it with the word "iTaukei", Pacific Media Watch reported.In line with the new decree the Ministry of Indigenous Affairs has been renamed the Ministry of iTaukei Affairs.Yet, Dr Paul Geraghty, from the University of ...

PAYWALLS are under the spotlight again, with rumours flying that News Corp's News of the World website is getting a paywall by October.An article on the New Media Age website (www.nma.co.uk) claimed the paywall to be imminent, without naming a source.The news comes as new traffic statistics for The Times website, which went behind a paywall in May, have been ...

THE Advertiser in Adelaide launched a new look real estate section last Saturday after research conducted by News Ltd found what readers were after in a real estate lift-out.The research suggested that readers want a product which is easy to navigate through and has up front tips and advice from those experienced in the housing industry.The Advertiser's Real Estate lift-out ...

PROFITS are up for Australian and New Zealand publishers, with two companies announcing an increase this month.APN News and Media Ltd released their financial results for the last six months on Wednesday, reporting a 4.9 percent lift in half-yearly net profit.The reported net profit after tax was A$40 million, compared with A$36 million in the corresponding period in 2009.In a ...

A VENEZUELAN court has ordered the country's newspapers to cease publishing photos depicting blood, guns and other violent images.According to AP, Venezuelan officials claim the move aims to protect children from the violent images, but opponents claim the move is censorship.Venezuela has one of the highest murder rates in South America, and opponents say the censorship is to limit public ...

SINGAPORE Press Holdings (SPH) continues to diversify outside the traditional publishing realm with the opening of a sports bar.The New Paper Sports Bar offers punters live football matches on a host of large TV screens, oodles of Asia's Tiger Beer and an exclusive live feed from the New Paper's newsroom where sports writers offer up-tothe- minute betting tips.The New Paper ...

STAFF at three national UK papers published by Trinity Mirror are to strike, beginning this week.The action was approved by a ballot of staff belonging to the British Association of Journalists, according to The Guardian.Trinity announced in June that 200 staff were to be made redundant across the Daily Mirror, Sunday Mirror and The People, and reportedly many journalists have ...

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THE Northern Irish papers have fared better than their southern counterparts in recent ABC figures, with circulation drops between 1 and 5 percent. In the south, the Irish Independent, the market-leading daily, has recorded a drop of 4.8 percent year on year.

NEW Zealand's AUT University is seeking a Pasifika journalist and educator to join its teaching staff.The University's School of Communication Studies described the new post in an ad as a "challenging opportunity to lead, develop and teach the new Graduate Diploma in Pacific Journalism programme".Besides core journalism skills, this diploma will also offer specialist papers in Maori and Pasifika Media ...

AMERICAN newspapers have reinvented how they count.Subscribers will be counted multiple times if they take a newspaper's services on more than one channel.This is a fundamental change to the way the US Audit Bureau of Circulations has worked in the past.The bureau said in a statement its board aimed to "establish a foundation for the future as more newspapers move ...

FINALISTS for the Newspaper of the Year awards will be announced by PANPA on Monday.More than 600 entries have been made to this year's PANPA awards - a huge leap from the 356 received last year. More than 50 judges have participated and the last marks were received at the association today.The awards will be made at the PANPA Newspaper ...

NEWS Ltd has continued its investment in the future strength of print with the launch of a new section for one of its leading metropolitan Sunday papers.A new section, called Sunday, has been created by the Sunday Mail in Adelaide to tap into readers' increasing interest in lifestyle journalism.The nation's continuing fascination with cooking is a highlight of the new ...

NEWSPAPER staff in Indian-administered Kashmir have been locked up, despite government assurances following a newspaper strike last month.The Kashmir Times reported government security forces had been preventing newspaper staff from reaching their offices during curfew, despite staff having media passes exempting them from the curfew.In one case, Meraj-ud-din Wani, editor of Kashmiri daily Srinigar News, was locked up by police. ...

A JOURNALIST from Moroccan daily Assabah was arrested over a story about the government's "punitive measures" against a judge.Khaled El Attaoui was brought in for several hours of questioning before being released, with the newspaper's publisher, Abdel Moneim Edlimi, telling Al Jazeera: "They wanted us to disclose our sources. That is a breach of Moroccan press law and the penal ...

SOUTH African editors have been urged to support a government-run media tribunal and have been told to "engage in that debate constructively".In the aftermath of its FIFA World Cup success, the South African government appears to be using its goodwill to begin a clampdown on a free press.Debate has been ignited after it was found a journalist had been taking ...

THE Australian Federal election campaign has to this point consisted mostly of shallow and confected photo-ops and simplistic sloganeering.There is generally one stage-managed event enacted for the cameras each day, crafted to illustrate whatever policy announcement the party is planning to unveil.Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard has acknowledged Labor's strategy has not served her well, she will take personal control ...