Google, Yahoo, Microsoft and freedom of speech and expression

Opinion: Internet technology giants agree upon a set of principles to guide their business in nations such as China that restrict free speech. Is that enough? Read more

Netscape co-founder: shut off the print edition right now

”The financial markets have discounted forward to the terminal conclusion for newspapers, which is basically bankruptcy,” says Marc Andreessen, a Silicon Valley entrepreneur. Read more

CS Monitor replaces daily print edition with its website

Analysis: Is it a model that other struggling newspapers should follow? Why could the Christian Science Monitor succeed on the net if it did not in print? Read more

NYT’s Sulzberger: We can’t care if newspapers die

“We must be where people want us for our information. It’s the thought of cannibalizing yourself before somebody else cannibalizes you,” says Arthur Sulzberger Jr., chairman and publisher of The New York Times. Read more

iReport: So everybody can be journalist now?

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission is examining the teen’s motives after the article on CNN’s iReport.com sent Apple shares down as much as 5.4 percent and cut Apple’s market value by at least $4.8 billion on Oct. 3, Bloomberg reports. Read more

Obama would win the US elections if they were held in eight other countries

Is not it a somewhat crazy idea? Canadian daily newspaper La Presse invited the leading titles from many countries of the world to make a poll about US presidential candidates. Seven newspapers followed. The result: Obama would win everywhere. Read more

Stanislaw Lem’s unpublished works discovered

Newspaper’s idea to publish a collection of the greatest works by a science-fiction writer Stanislaw Lem helped to discover his unpublished opera on Stalin. Read more

INMA poll: Marlena Jezierska, Agora, on the future of classified advertising in print

Marlena Jezierska, head of real estate verticals at Agora, Poland, answers the question: In which year do you think the last classified ad will be printed on paper? Read more

INMA poll: Geert Spapen, De Persgroep, on the future of classified advertising in print

Geert Spapen, Group Manager for the Classified Business Unit at De Persgroep in Belgium, answers to our question: When do you think the last classified ad will be printed on paper? Read more

INMA poll: George Zafolias, Naftenporiki, on the future of classified advertising in print

George Zafolias, New Media Supervisor at Nafrenporiki in Greece, answers the question: In which year do you think the last classified ad will be printed on paper? Read more