According to the letter sent to the online magazine PlanetaSMI.ru by Saratov entrepreneurs, the police is actively participating in demolishing the kiosks claiming that they were put there illegally in the first place. Saratov entrepreneurs call it abuse of office, vigilantism. They say that the local officials are claiming to be ridding the city of the “illegal” kiosks and providing the police with the wrong information regarding the legal status of kiosks to speed up the demolition process.

In an effort to cross-brand and better serve audiences that resulted in a unique sponsorship opportunity, Time Inc. titlesMoney and This Old House partnered on an editorial supplement. The supplementary content, dubbed “Safe at Home: 25 Ways to Protect Your Biggest Investment,” appears in both magazines and their online counterparts, as well as in Time Inc. sister publication Real Simple.

Money previously worked with Real Simple on a similar project, producing an editorial supplement for both magazines in December 2011. Money managing editor Craig Matters recalls the experience as, “A stretching exercise in editorial composition.”

Number of kiosks has decreased in the North-Eastern and Eastern parts of Moscow by 40% and 30% respectively as a result of the Moscow mayor’s initiative to regulate kiosk retail.

The kiosks that had been distracting car and pedestrian traffic were removed. New location plan and kiosk design were developed. There are going to be 9.6 thousand kiosks in the city according to the new plan: 6.4 thousand existent kiosks and 3.2 thousand new ones.

Randall-Reilly, the Tuscaloosa, Alabama-based b-to-b media company targeting the trucking and construction markets, has recently undergone a corporate restructuring around six "centers of excellence": Content, interactive, events, business intelligence, custom marketing solutions and audience development. As a result, the executive team, which remains intact, has also shuffled its roles. 

Just in case publishers didn’t have enough platforms to push their apps through already, Facebook is jumping into the game with the debut of itsApp Center. In a post on its Facebook Developers page, software engineer Aaron Brady urges, “All developers should start preparing today to make sure their app is included for the launch.”

Positioned as “the new, central place to find great apps,” the App Center mandates an app detail page for each submission. FB will decide which products to promote by monitoring app success through its Insights feature, a system already in place for brand pages (the tool monitors likes, number of users “talking about this,” weekly reach and a combined social circle tally dubbed “Friends of Fans”). Brady writes, “Well-designed apps that people enjoy will be prominently displayed.”

One hundred years after its first edition appeared, the once mighty Pravda newspaper has gone back to its origins as a struggling opposition newspaper, but is still defiantly urging the workers of the world to unite.

Spekhov Yevgeny, editor of correspondence department, shows an issue of paper 'Pravda' from 10 May 1945 after the capitulation of Nazi Germany in the editorial office of Russian Communist party newspaper 'Pravda' (Truth) in Moscow, Russia on Friday. Russian celebrate 100 year anniversary of the first issue of the newspaper 'Pravda' which was published on 05 May 1912 in St. Petersburg, becoming the biggest newspaper during the Soviet period of the Russian history and the official newspaper of the Central Committee of the Russian Communist Party from 1912 until 1991 when the paper was closed down after the decree of the President Boris Yeltsin. In 1997 Russian communists recovered 'Pravda' as an official paper of the Russian Communist party.

A journalist works near the memorial working place (R) of the wife of Vladimir Lenin Nadezhda Krupskaya in the editorial office of Russian Communist party newspaper 'Pravda' (Truth) in Moscow.

Pre-anniversary issues of paper 'Pravda' (Truth) are pictured while on the production line at the printing works outside Moscow.

Reuters reports that the 100-year-old Russian newspaper is still 'urging the workers of the world to unite':

Times are hard. But its editor says that battling hostile authorities, the threat of closure and financial problems is how Pravda spent its early years after first appearing in St Petersburg on May 5, 1912, until the 1917 Bolshevik Revolution.

"In many respects our role and purpose has gone back to what it was before 1917," Boris Komotsky said in his office in Moscow's Pravda Street, a huge photograph of Soviet state founder Vladimir Lenin reading Pravda on the wall behind him.

"We are the opposition's main organ, fighting for power, for policy changes. We've gone though so many problems. Now each of the workers here is a hero. At times they've had to work without getting a paycheck."

There's a newspaper in America with the same name - in English. The Elkhart Truth, in northern Indiana, worked together with msnbc.com to produce the Elkhart Project, a yearlong series of reports about a region hit particularly hard by the recent recession.

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Russian media experts and journalists say Freedom House's annual press freedom survey doesn't acknowledge the rise of independent media outlets and social media, which are broadening the landscape.

"The loss of trust is, I think, strongly related to the loss of connection on a basic human level," Silverman wrote for Poynter. "The public lost a sense of connection to the press, to journalists and to journalism."

Source Interlink Media is making a play for the Indian automobile market by taking a majority stake in Carazoo, a company that provides e-marketing solutions and software for car and motorcycle dealerships in India, and operates the online auto marketplace Carazoo.com. Source, which publishes a number of titles in the automobile vertical, including the Motor Trend Group, expects to use the platform to tap into India's growing auto sector for both its advertisers and content brands.