James Mitchell

"As newspapers around the country struggle to develop strategies for growing revenues online, more and more of them are turning to an unlikely ally for salvation: Yahoo!. Last week, five struggling newspapers including the San Diego Union-Tribune and the Orange County Register joined the Yahoo! Newspaper Consortium, an online advertising partnership between the Web publisher and the print publishers."

"With 33 Iranian journalists and bloggers in jail, Iran ranks alongside China as the world's biggest prison for journalists, the press rights group Reporters Without Borders (RSF) said on Sunday. The Paris-based organisation voiced alarm after several high-profile journalists were arrested including Jila Baniyaghoob and her husband Bahaman Ahamadi Amoee, who were taken from their Teheran home on Saturday."