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Journalist of the year nominees announced
Posted by Press Gazette on 13 Mar 2008 | Tagged as: News, UK, Journalism
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By Press Gazette Guardian writer Nick Davies, the author of a book investigating Fleet Street, Flat Earth News, is among those nominated for the top individual prize. |
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Award-Winning Film-Maker’s Death Divides UK And Israel
Posted by The Independent on 07 Aug 2007 | Tagged as: News, Media Savvy, UK, Ethics, Middle East, Judicial, Israel/Palestine, Alternative Press, Terror, Documentary
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By Eric Silver, The Independent Britain and Israel face a diplomatic and legal showdown this week over the death of James Miller, an award-winning British film-maker who was shot by Israel soldiers while working on a documentary in the Gaza Strip more than four years ago. |
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Blair, Murdoch Spoke Three Times In Run-Up To Iraq War
Posted by AP on 19 Jul 2007 | Tagged as: News, News Corp, Europe, UK, Middle East, Iraq War, Rupert Murdoch, Newspapers, Wall Street Journal
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AP In final days leading up to the Iraq war, then-prime minister Tony Blair spoke three times with media mogul Rupert Murdoch, whose newspapers and broadcast outlets were among the strongest supporters of launching the war, the government has revealed. |
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Iran’s Press TV To Give Alternative View
Posted by LA Times on 13 Jul 2007 | Tagged as: News, Fox News, CNN, UK, Journalism, Middle East, Television, BBC, Satellite TV, MSNBC, Alternative Press, Al-Jazeera
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By Ramin Mostaghim and Borzou Daragahi, LA Times The 24-hour satellite news channel will compete with Western outlets to counter what Tehran sees as propaganda. |
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Jury Tells Judge It Is Deadlocked
Posted by Chicago Tribune on 11 Jul 2007 | Tagged as: News, Media Savvy, Ownership, US, UK, Ethics, Journalism
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By Ameet Sachdev, Chicago Tribune. A Chicago federal jury revealed Tuesday that it is having difficulty reaching a verdict in the fraud trial of former publishing magnate Conrad Black and three other men. |
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Panel Says No Case For Official Media Regulation
Posted by Reuters on 11 Jul 2007 | Tagged as: News, Europe, Free Speech, UK, Media Freedom, Journalism
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By Michael Holden, Reuters The press should continue to be self-regulated despite such lapses as pursuing Prince William’s on-off girlfriend and bugging the royal household’s phones, a parliamentary committee said on Wednesday. |
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The “Doctors’ Plot” Is Number One
Posted by Journalism.org on 10 Jul 2007 | Tagged as: News, Media Savvy, Bias, Fox News, CNN, USGOP, USDemocrats, Bush, Free Speech, Commentary, UK, Politics, Ethics, Libby, Obama, Hillary, Cheney, Action, Journalism, Middle East, Iraq War, Libel, ABC News, Right v. Left, MSNBC, Terror
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By Journalism.org The U.K. terror plot that hit the headlines June 29 with the discovery of two undetonated car bombs in London took a strange and disturbing turn last week… |
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Expert On Murdoch Insisted The Dow Jones Deal Was Done
Posted by NY Times on 10 Jul 2007 | Tagged as: News, Media Savvy, Ownership, News Corp, North America, Europe, US, UK, Journalism, Rupert Murdoch, Newspapers, Wall Street Journal, Business
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By Richard Siklos, The New York Times When the Web site for the British publication The Business posted an exclusive article last Friday declaring that Rupert Murdoch’s $5 billion bid for Dow Jones had succeeded, a byline on the piece lent it extra credibility: that of Andrew Neil, the weekly’s chief executive and editor in chief. |
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A Deal For The Journal Is Close. Or Not.
Posted by Media Life on 10 Jul 2007 | Tagged as: News, Media Savvy, Ownership, News Corp, North America, Europe, US, UK, Journalism, Magazines, Rupert Murdoch, Newspapers, Wall Street Journal, Business
Trio Who Incited Terrorism Over Web Jailed
Posted by Reuters on 06 Jul 2007 | Tagged as: News, UK, New Media
| By Reuters Three men have been sentenced to a total of 24 years in prison after admitting to inciting terrorism over the Internet in the first case of its kind in Britain. |
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Gadgets ‘Threaten Energy Savings’
Posted by BBC News on 05 Jul 2007 | Tagged as: News, Europe, UK, Environment, Technology, Television, Radio
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By BBC News The growing popularity of hi-tech devices, such as flat-screen TVs and digital radios, threaten to undermine efforts to save energy. |
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BBC Gaza journalist Johnston freed
Posted by Reuters on 04 Jul 2007 | Tagged as: News, UK, Media Freedom, Middle East, World Press, BBC
| By Nidal al-Mughrabi, Reuters Alan Johnston, the BBC journalist held hostage in the Gaza Strip, was freed on Wednesday after a deal between the ruling Hamas Islamists and the al Qaeda-inspired clan group that kidnapped him in March. |
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Immigration Is Top Story, But Terror Takes Over
Posted by Project for Excellence in Journalism on 03 Jul 2007 | Tagged as: News, Media Savvy, North America, US, UK, Media Freedom, Journalism, Policy, Television, Iraq War, Telecommunications, Newspapers, Radio, Cable, US Congress, Immigration
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By Mark Jurkowitz, Project for Excellence in Journalism For all the dramatic events of last week, none was covered as intensely as the failed attack in London.. |
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‘Sicko’: Heavily Doctored
Posted by MTV on 02 Jul 2007 | Tagged as: News, Media Savvy, Bias, Europe, US, CA, FR, UK, Politics, Ethics, Hillary, Journalism, Policy, Activism, France, Health Care
UK Lords To Probe Concentration Of Media Ownership
Posted by Forbes on 26 Jun 2007 | Tagged as: News, Ownership, UK
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By Forbes The House of Lords Communications committee said it is to conduct an investigation into the concentration of media ownership. |
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