This 1981 report from KRON-TV in San Francisco has been making the rounds in recent days:

From AP via TheStar.com:

The dead hover over the morning meeting at Russia's leading investigative newspaper and chief editor-in-chief Dmitry Muratov is in an understandably foul mood as Novaya Gazeta's staffers try to plan the next of its three weekly editions.

In a corner hang photos of four reporters Muratov has lost in the past eight years – one beaten to death, one allegedly poisoned, two shot – the most recent on Jan. 19.

From CP via CTV.ca: (posted Jan. 30)

As advertising revenues evaporate at a merciless pace, Canadian newspapers have had to slash jobs and shutter divisions to keep afloat, with rising online ad sales providing a much-needed lifeline as they transition to new technology.

But with U.S. media bellwether the New York Times posting weaker quarterly Internet ad sales for the first time ever earlier this week, there are signs that going online may not be enough of a shield for traditional media players.

With oil prices falling, much of the runaway expansion planned for Alberta's oilsands has been put on hold for now. Could this be an opportunity. Globe and Mail energy reporter Shawn McCarthy explores that question.

From the Globe and Mail:

It was an attack, vicious even by Afghanistan's violent standards, that shocked the world: A group of men on motorbikes surprised a group of school girls and teachers as they walked to school last November and sprayed their faces with acid.

Now, in what is being billed as a triumph over terrorism in this war-ravaged land, most of the 1,300 students – some with permanent scars on their cheeks and damaged vision – have returned to school full time.

Credit has been handed to headmaster Mahmood Qadri, 54, who moved quickly after the attacks, cajoling and begging the frightened families of the girls not to let the attackers win by giving up on their education.

“We told them not to lose this chance for your children,” Mr. Qadri said.