It's a catchy headline from a chapter of an invaluable book on magazines and how they're evolving in a turbulent media sea.

It's also a positive approach to saving energy, paper and the environment by cutting down on print versions of airline inflight magazines and turning them into digital media.

Egyptian media are having a field day ripping into ousted president Hosni Mubarak, his family and cronies, with state-run news organizations doing an about-face from traditional kowtowing to authority.

Coverage has ranged from serious to ludicrous, and, given Egyptians' noted sense of humor, downright hilarious.

Yosri Fouda, a former...

Libyan officials have been so angered by Arab media coverage of the revolution in their country they've resorted to jamming satellite TV channel transmissions from a location in Tripoli and have accused foreign reporters of fomenting unrest.

The New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) this week said...

It was long overdue.

The government body known derisively as Egypt's Ministry of Disinformation has ceased to exist.

The country's new interim cabinet does not have an Information Ministry, and the post of information minister has been eliminated, Prime Minister Ahmad Shafiq told members of Egyptian newspaper...

Fallout from Egypt rattled cages at the pan-Arab, Saudi-owned satellite channel Al Arabiya when presenter Hafez Al Mirazi on Saturday threatened to quit if he was not allowed to discuss the revolution's impact on Saudi Arabia.

"Would Saudi papers dare to say anything about King Abdullah or...

"El shaab yureed taghiir el naqeeb (the people want to change the union's president)," chanted members of Egypt's journalists syndicate, on a variation to the mantra protesters have been repeating in their call for ousting President Hosni Mubarak.

It reflected their displeasure with yet another symbol of the maligned Egyptian...

How do we read coverage to date of the momentous events in Egypt?

To say that official Egyptian media have been in a time warp since the troubles began would be understating matters.

A sign carried by a demonstrator in Cairo's Tahrir Square read: "Egyptian media don't see, don't hear,...

"Was there ever a people whose leaders were as truly their enemies as this one?"
- Ernest Hemingway, For Whom the Bell Tolls, Ch. 13.

It's a question being asked by the media and across the Arab world where leaders-for-life have been the norm is several countries and where...

One day a dissident blogger jailed for his activism against a repressive regime, the next a cabinet minister in Tunisia's interim government whose days may be numbered.

It came as a shock to Slim Amemou, the 33-year-old whose battle for online freedom of expression in a country with...

The recently opened crypt museum at the St. George Greek Orthodox Cathedral in downtown Beirut is relatively small but packs a powerful punch by revealing layers of Christian heritage in a land rocked by sectarian differences.

The cathedral, the seventh in a series of churches dating some 2,000 years, endured...

While icons like Newsweek may have stumbled in recent years, only to merge with The Daily Beast, other magazines have thrived thanks to innovative management, flexibility and a willingness to experiment with new models.

Shrinking advertising revenue, fewer pages, slashed payrolls and dropping circulations haven't deterred...

The music is haunting, as is the place where author, poet, and painter Gibran Khalil Gibran was born and buried, following a 48-year journey meandering from his beloved native Lebanon, to his adopted country America, to stays in Britain and France.

The spirituality one feels in Bsharri, Gibran's village, perched...

It started with a clampdown on domestic, private, "independent," opposition media and bloggers, and turned to harassment of foreign news organizations, under the pretext they disseminated falsehoods about Egypt's legislative elections.

The first round of parliamentary elections Nov. 28 that secured the ruling National Democratic Party's (NDP) clean sweep of...

Amid all the gloom and doom of newspapers limping or folding, there's a ray of hope in the print media landscape, thanks to innovative thinking and risk taking by publishers and editors who recognize opportunities to be seized at the right time.

"What we need to do is think in...

Newsrooms should be converged, integrated, flexible, lean and techy, to survive in today's fast-changing media landscape, but news organizations should still focus on good story telling.

The mantra is repeated throughout "Trends in Newsrooms 2010," (TIN) a rich guide for editors and publishers struggling with slumping circulations, shrinking revenues, layoffs,...

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It's hard not to enjoy a trip to Rhodes with its plentiful sun, historical sites, diverse cultural offerings, natural beauty, fun spots, and laid back atmosphere.

The Dodecanese Greek island, the largest in a group of 12 (hence the Greek number "thotheca"), is easily accessible to visitors...

Why are so many people mad at Al Jazeera www.aljazeera.net and is it still a leading Arab satellite channel?

Why have so many anchors and correspondents quit the Qatar-based TV station?

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"Morocco suspends Al Jazeera's license due to 'escalation...

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What comes to mind when someone mentions Hamburg?

A port city in the cold northern reaches of Germany with ubiquitous sex shops a short walk from the harbor?

That wouldn't be too far from the truth.

St. Pauli, considered Europe's largest amusement and red light district,...

"The 'free speech' spring in Egypt is nearing its end" was the headline of a report in Lebanese daily An-Nahar describing the sacking of noted controversial media figures critical of the regime ahead of legislative elections in November.

"The regressive move began last month with news of halting...

Game changers for journalists in this year of the tablet and mobile are dizzying, but certain basics are constant, so one has to re-tool, and fast, to stay afloat, media experts proclaimed this week.

"We need one developer per five journalists today," suggested Juan Senor, partner in the