The economic recession has left hundreds of thousands of professionals without work. In parallel this situation the advanced communication means have created new work at home business opportunities that few people see. In journalism and news reporting a number of work at home opportunities remain without being fully used.

As part of our look back at the year that was, we asked broadcasters, editors, and correspondents representing the 20 countries and 28 languages in which RFE/RL broadcasts to vote on what they thought were the top news events of the year. What stories did they think had the biggest impact? Here are their choices for the Top 10 news stories of 2008.

Project Censored conducts research on important national news stories that are underreported, ignored, misrepresented, or censored by the US corporate media. Each year, Project Censored publishes a ranking of the top 25 most censored nationally important news stories in the yearbook, Censored: Media Democracy in Action.

The House of Representatives has strongly backed the right of reporters to protect the confidentiality of sources in most federal court cases, saying that right was crucial to a free and effective press.

Fox business channel starts broadcasting business news today October 15 and already has more viewers than CNBC, reaching to more than 30 million U.S. households.