HAMID Reza Jalaipour, a burly Iranian newspaper director, has not set foot in his office in 14 months.
But in an interview with the Beijing Youth Daily newspaper, director Fan Ziwen said officials had approved their series because they believed it would highlight efforts to eradicate corruption rather than simply showing how rotten the system had become.
As he retires from his role as newspaper director at Cardiff University's School of Journalism, David English, reflects on his 38-year career which has seen him teach more British newspaper journalists than any other person.
Evans also says he agrees with Murdoch that independent newspaper directors are useless.
But there was nothing to prepare readers for the ripely inventive fiction that began pouring out of this late-middle-age ex-newspaper director.
And according to a Mobile newspaper, the director of investigations for Alabama's revenue department said the state never expected actually to sell stamps to drug users.
"The first I knew about the letters was when they appeared in the newspaper," the director, Patrick McCarthy, told the paper.
Writing last week in L' Osservatore Romano, the Vatican newspaper, Antonio Paolucci, director of the Vatican Museums, suggested that the figures are consistent with the descriptions that Columbus gave in his letters of the indigenous people he saw upon his arrival in the Americas.
But speaking to the Globe and Mail, a Canadian daily newspaper, the director of communications for the Canadian government's foreign affairs minister, said a $15 billion contract with the government of Arab country would still go ahead.
The hardline Kayhan newspaper, whose director is appointed by Khamenei, ran an editorial on Tuesday calling on the Guardian Council to disqualify Rafsanjani, saying he had become the favourite candidate of the country's enemies and opposition.
Keyhan, an ultra-conservative Iranian newspaper whose director is appointed directly by the country's supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, published an editorial on Wednesday cautioning Rouhani about his meetings and a potential agreement with the west over Tehran's nuclear programme.
