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The International Center for Journalists has released its online guidebook designed to help journalists worldwide prepare for future disaster coverage. An excerpted version of the guide is available as an embedable interactive widget, as well as a PDF version, including an extended text and additional sections, can be downloaded in either English or Spanish from the ICFJ website.

At no time in the foreseeable future will digital advertising revenues replace those lost to print, making the search for new business models — including paid-for-online access for news — a pressing concern for the news publishing industry, the World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers (WAN-IFRA) said in its annual world press trends update.

Independent research firm GlobeScan (www.globescan.com) and Complus  Alliance (www.complusalliance.org), a partnership of communicators for sustainable development, invite journalists from the Asia-Pacific region to participate in a short online survey about their views on media's treatment of sustainable development issues.

TVE Asia Pacific (TVEAP) announces the global release of its latest Asian regional television series, 'Saving the Planet' (www.savingtheplanet.tv).
 
The six-episode series features outstanding efforts in education for sustainable development (ESD) in South and Southeast Asia.
 

BEIJING — Internet users are leaving themselves open to security risks by adopting weak passwords, reports China's Xinhua News, referring to a recent study.

Asia Media Report 2009’, coordinated, produced and published by the Asia Media Forum (AMF) with the assistance of Actionaid, was launched at the Galle Face Hotel, Colombo, on Aug. 4, 2009 amid a select gathering of media proprietors, editors, senior journalists and broadcasters.

Journalists can now download the second online edition of the Reuters Handbook of Journalism from http://handbook.reuters.com/index.php/Main_Page.

Internet users in Asia have jumped to 657 million as of March 31, 2009, according to a report by the European Travel Commission's New Media Trend Watch.

Quoting statistics from the Internet World Stats, an international website that features up-to-date world Internet usage, the report said that this latest figure is an increase of 474.9 percent compared to 2000.

The 'Asia Media Report 2009: Missing in the Media', produced by the Asia Media Forum (AMF), was released at a function jointly organised by the AMF and The Press Club, Mumbai (India) at the club's conference hall on May 7. 

Prominent senior journalist and editor of the Mumbai daily 'Loksatta' Kumar Ketkar was on hand to release the report. 

The report, launched at the Asia Media Conference in Bangkok, Thailand, in March, will be released in different countries in Asia and the Mumbai event was  the first of such events.

The Asia Media Forum (AMF) awards four fellowships to media persons from Asian countries to research/investigate an important issue in some other Asian country and write or do a television feature about it.

A selection committee, after carefully scrutinising all the applications, has chosen the following fellows:

• Masduki Yogyakarta, new development and personnel manager for Unisi Radio, Indonesia
• Hector Bryant Macale, senior staff writer, Centre for Media Freedom & Responsibility (CMFR), Philippines
• Emanthi Marambe, senior journalist, Divaina Newspaper, Sri Lanka
• Umarul Faruq, senior sub-editor, Madhyaman Daily, Calicut, India