While protesters in the audience express criticism, Ukraine President Viktor Yanukovych addresses some of the key issues and challenges facing his government and the country’s media in advancing and developing the causes of freedom of speech and independent media.

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As Senior Vice President and Head of Strategic Marketing for Singapore Press Holdings, one of the most forward-thinking publishing groups in the world, it would be easy to assume that Geoff Tan follows an “out of the box” philosophy. Wrong. He prefers to “burn the box,” he says.

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I interviewed Trevor Ncube, Chairman of Alpha Media Holdings (AMH) in Harare, during the 2009 World Newspaper Congress in Hyderabad, India, just months before his company was about to launch NewsDay, the only independent daily newspaper in Zimbabwe. Ncube will be speaking at this year's Congress to update us on AMH's new newspaper but also on other developments in Africa, so it was a good time to catch up with him to see how the company's projects are developing.

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Michael Golden doesn’t hide his sentiment about joining his family’s business in 1984. “It was a thrilling time. As a member of the family that controls The New York Times Company, my going to work here was both a career ambition and step into the family’s almost 120-year history with The New York Times.”

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