Their families grieve their absence and yearn for media coverage that could help find their children and energize law enforcement.
Increasingly however, these reports have become fodder for sensationalized media coverage (which generates even more reporting) and topics for online discussion groups.
Yet for all the media coverage about departing players in Europe, for Africans the biggest story before the tournament concerns one team that will definitely not be booking any flights to South Africa in the summer: reigning champions Egypt, and their bid to win a record third straight title.
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But politicians in Cardiff Bay were today focused on a different kind of deficit - the gap between political activity in the National Assembly for Wales and media coverage of it - or the lack of it.
His campaign did not show the vigour needed to win media coverage for a third party.
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It is hoped that Soccerex will bring millions of rand into South Africa's economy, as well as providing worldwide media coverage for the country.
The existence of the OIC investigation was made public on the January 21st edition of the Washington Post, and was the all-consuming focus of media coverage for the ensuing eight months.
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Recently, some observers have questioned the show's relevance at a time when tech giants such as Google and Apple -- witness Tuesday's Nexus One launch -- can get massive media coverage for product announcements whenever they want.
But amid insatiable media coverage for the contest, daily polls gauging the candidates' progress and with issues such as Iraq and the economy dividing the nation, has politics replaced sports and reality TV as the conversational topic of choice around the office water cooler?
He accused the alleged victims of conspiring for financial gain while blaming the media for what he described as biased coverage.
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Soychak has garnered a good amount of spectators (and media coverage) for her weekly performances.
They provide opportunities for our members, put us on TV for the world to see, generate traffic for our website and generate media coverage.
It was true: the PRI, when in power, paid some journalists extravagantly, and supported many newspapers and other media in return for coverage that suited its purposes.
Opposition leader Tony Abbott told reporters that it was Labor's "performance which is causing the problems for this government", not media coverage.
So Ghana, as hosts of this year's African Cup, got the kind of global media coverage often reserved for African wars and calamities.
And it is the trifecta of these scandalous sagas that will dominate coverage for months as media outlets feast on the cycle of investigations, hearings, subpoenas, resignations and denials.
This training contributed to the implementation of the UNESCO strategy for journalists in the HIV and AIDS media coverage.
Ms von Baer says that the Chilean opposition uses Twitter to make up for its poor coverage in the mainstream media.
Nor can it be considered empowering for ordinary Africans who will continue to feel that media coverage ignores the complex dilemmas, challenges and opportunities they face as the continent tries to reinvent itself.
Also, if you are concerned with severe weather, I discuss how increased media coverage of extreme events is often mistaken for a trend in the underlying events here.
Still others positioning on our list seems to be dictated by little more than the news cycle (Queen Elizabeth, for example, has benefitted greatly this year by the media coverage of both the Olympics and her Jubilee year).
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Fayette said he agreed to talk to the newspaper for the Irene story because of some of the critical media coverage, including an Enterprise editorial, DOT received that summer over the repaving of state Route 86 between Saranac Lake and Lake Placid.
The media itself is getting high marks from the public for its coverage of the tragedy, with 85 percent describing coverage as excellent or good.
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The governments of Fernandez and Buenos Aires Mayor Mauricio Macri sought to blame each other for the chaos, and the nation's divided media focused their coverage in ways that put one side or the other in the worst light.
Firms including BT and Virgin will be able to bid for the money, which they can use to fill in urban notspots or increase wi-fi coverage, a spokesman for the Department of Culture, Media and Sport told the BBC.
Mainstream media attention to the Jackson story accounted for 17% of all press coverage last week, with no signs of letting up.
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