Recording decrease of profitability of newspaper advertisement, lasting the second year in a row, may result in closing of some editions and bankruptcy of a number of companies in the USA, The New York Times newspaper wrote on Monday.

Delegates of the fifth session of Azerbaijani journalists with a majority of voices reelected the Press Council chairman Aflatun Amashov to the same post. As “Novosti-Azerbaijan” informs, by means of voting they have formed a managing board and control-revision committees of the PC.

Issue concerning activity of democratic institutes in Azerbaijan will be considered at the PACE summer session on June 23. According to co-reporter of the PACE Monitoring Committee on Azerbaijan Eugenia Zhivkova, it was not certain yet in what form they will adopt resolution concerning our country.

Human rights organization ‘Amnesty International’ has awarded Iraqi woman journalist, Sahar al-Haideri, killed 7June, 2007, with recently set award in the sphere of mass media, British The Guardian informs.

The Nasimi district court of Baku rejected the claim of “Azadlig” newspaper’s collaborator, Agil Halil against the Public Prosecutor’s Office and State Frontier Service of Azerbaijan, www.day.az informs referring to the Institute of Reporters’ Freedom and Safety citing A. Halil personally.

On Sunday, 15 June, two local journalists were robbed and beaten in Vladivostok. As “Interfax” informs on Monday, collaborator of the news agency PrimaMedia and correspondent of periodical “Ezhednevnie novosti” (daily news) suffered from unknown civilians.

The Cosmos Communication Center of Kazakhstan could not restart operation of the only Kazakh satellite KazSat-1 that they lost a week ago, “Interfax” informs.

Associated Press news agency is to ban copying its texts to blogers’ diaries, The New York Times informs. AP representatives consider that bloggers with copying as the whole news as well as citations are violating the copyrights.