31.   On his visit this month to Russia, he defended press freedoms in an interview on Ekho Moskvy, a sister radio station to the embattled NTV media group.

32.   One focuses on music, television and publishing, while the second, the media services group, includes storage media and other services.

33.   Other newspapers, themselves part of larger media groups, are jumping into the fray.

34.   Plenty, say media watchdog groups and civil libertarians.

35.   Separately, the J. Walter Thompson agency has formed a global media group of five executives to set media policy and philosophy for its worldwide media network.

36.   Stewart will report to Managing Director Ivan Lustig, head of the media group.

37.   Some star bankers like Jill Greenthal, who used to run the media group, are now part of an executive committee dedicated to working with clients.

38.   That bothers people like Robert W. Peters, the president of Morality in Media, a media watchdog group in New York.

39.   Thai Sky, a wholly owned unit of media group Wattachak Plc, is the third pay-TV company in Thailand to gain the rights to the two Turner channels.

40.   That is the other digital television project, controlled by Sogecable, a joint venture between Canal Plus France and Spanish media group Prisa.