Web sites of American The New York Times newspaper and its international version - The International Herald Tribune - have turned to a uniform resource. As editor of The International Herald Tribune Martin Gottlib noted in his speech to readers, the newspapers had decided to unite efforts to create “a 24-hour news resource” to function on the basis of The New York Times web site.

In Azerbaijan 31 March is marked as the Day of genocide of Azerbaijanis, Trend News informs. In March, 1918, dashnaks seizing power in Baku under leadership of Stepan Shaumyan committed a ruthless genocide of the Azerbaijani people. As a result of the committed crime in March-April in Baku, Shamakha, Guba and in other regions of Azerbaijan they killed innocent Azerbaijanis and the whole villages were burnt down. During that period brotherly Turkey gave a support hand to Azerbaijan to rescue the Azerbaijani population from the total annihilation and slaughter carried out by Armenians.

The National Security Ministry of Azerbaijan decided to publish documentary materials concerning the March events of 1918 in the form of a separate book, AzerTadj informs. The book composed by historical sciences doctor Solmaz Rustamova-Togidi, “March, 1918. Baku. The Azerbaijan pogroms in documents” will undoubtedly cause a great interest as it is a collection of documents gathered by the Extreme investigatory commission, created by the Azerbaijan government in July, 1918 to investigate facts of violence, pogroms and marauding, committed in relation to the Muslim population and their property within all the Transcaucasia from the beginning of the I World War.

In Tbilisi on 27-29 March, seminar for journalists of Armenia and Azerbaijan covering the conflict was held within the limits of the project of the Foundation of the European cooperation.

The CNN TV for the first time of its 30-year history has got down to the third position in prime-time programs ratings, the Associated Press informs. Upon the March results, the CNN let the Fox News and MSNBC forward.

Radio Türküm channel operating in New York will broadcast programs in the Azerbaijani language to cover different themes every Saturday and Sunday at 11:00-13:00.

The American Los Angeles Times and Chicago Tribune newspapers will unite their foreign correspondents nets in one, the AFP informs. The program on expenses decrease carried out by anti-crisis management of the editions reasoned the decision. We should remind that in December, 2008 the publishing house Tribune owning the both newspapers announced bankrupt.

The American New York Times and Washington Post newspapers announce on new measures directed to decrease expenses, the AFP informs. The Times Co. owning the New York Times and Boston Globe intends to cut wages of those editions down by 6% meanwhile to prolong their vacations up to ten days. The wages will be cut down at least till the end of 2009. Besides that, 100 employees will be sacked from the New York Times newspaper.

The Russian government has spent $10 mln on the services of American and European PR agencies for the last two and half months, The New Times magazine writes.
In particular, the edition notes, the interests of the Russian government were represented by the Ketchum, the Washington Group and the Gplus Europe companies. Russia applied for the first time for the services of these companies during preparation to the G8 Summit held in 2006 in St. Petersburg having paid $2 mln.

The new www.vesti.az portal has been launched today in the media space of Azerbaijan.

Correspondents of the “Ganun va hagigat” (law and truth) newspaper are detained in Azerbaijan, the “Novosti-Azerbaijan” informs referring to the Interior Ministry of Azerbaijan.

“Investigative and search actions are continued to detect the murder of Elmar Huseinov. The process has never stopped for a second”, Arif Babayev, the chief to the PR branch of the National Security Ministry said to the APA.

A monitoring group of the Press Council (PC) holds meetings with mass media leaders within the limits of the project “Observance of the norms and laws of professional ethics in the press” realized with the financial help of the US embassy to Azerbaijan. During the last month the group met the editors of the “Bizim yol”, “Kaspy”, “Movge”, “Palitra”, “Azerbaijan”, “Adalyat”, “Halg Jabhasi”, “Iki sahil”, “Baki habar”, “Khurriyat” and other newspapers.

The “Reporters without borders” Organization published on 12 March its annual list of “the Internet enemies” which included 12 countries: Burma (Myanmar), Vietnam, Egypt, Iran, China, Cuba, Saudi Arabia, North Korea, Syria, Tunis, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan.

Iraqi journalist, Muntadar al-Zeydi, who threw his boots at the 43rd president of the USA, George Bush, was found guilty of the attack on a foreign state's leader and sentenced by the court to 3 years in custody; www.lenta.ru informs referring to the AFP. In his last plea he refused to plead guilty.