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News Corp. Bid for Newsday
Posted by Wall Street Journal on 25 Apr 2008 | Tagged as: News, Ownership, News Corp, Ethics, Rupert Murdoch
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By Amy Schatz, The Wall Street Journal News Corp.’s bid to buy Newsday will face regulatory hurdles, but political attacks on the deal could be more of a long - term problem as News Corp. Chairman Rupert Murdoch tries to seal the deal. |
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China Doctors The News Of Olympic Torch Relay
Posted by San Francisco Chronicle on 09 Apr 2008 | Tagged as: News, Asia, Free Speech, CN, Ethics, Media Freedom, Gaming
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By Kathleen E. McLaughlin, San Francisco Chronicle The tumultuous reception to China’s Olympic torch relay around the world has touched a nationalistic nerve here. |
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Afghanistan Moves To Censor TV
Posted by AP on 01 Apr 2008 | Tagged as: News, Free Speech, Ethics, Middle East, Television, Afghanistan, Indecency, Censorship
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By Alisa Tang, AP Afghan lawmakers pass resolution aimed at censoring un-Islamic images on TV. |
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A Company Promises The Deepest Data Mining Yet
Posted by NY Times on 20 Mar 2008 | Tagged as: News, Ethics, Media Freedom, New Media, Google, Clear Channel, Books, privacy, Human Rights, Internet
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By Louise Story, NY Times The company, called Phorm, has created a tool that can track every single online action of a given consumer, based on data from that person’s Internet service provider. |
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US Reporter Gets Last Minute Stay From Hefty Contempt Fines
Posted by Agence France Press on 12 Mar 2008 | Tagged as: News, Free Speech, Ethics, Media Freedom, Journalism
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By Agence France Press A former reporter for USAToday newspaper who was fined for refusing to name confidential sources for a story, has been granted a stay. |
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Press Photos from Iraq: What Will History Say?
Posted by AP on 10 Mar 2008 | Tagged as: News, Ethics, Media Freedom, Journalism, Middle East, Iraq War, Newspapers
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By AP When you close your eyes and think of Iraq, what do you see in your mind’s eye? |
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Bush Aide Resigns Over Plagiarism
Posted by AP on 03 Mar 2008 | Tagged as: News, Ethics, Journalism
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By Terence Hunt, AP Timothy Goeglein, who has worked for Bush since 2001, acknowledged that he lifted material from a Dartmouth College publication and presented it as his own work. |
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South Africa Rights Agency Investigates White Media Ban
Posted by Reuters on 25 Feb 2008 | Tagged as: News, Africa, Ethics, Media Freedom, Journalism
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By Reuters A number of white reporters were asked to leave or refused entry at an event sponsored by the Forum of Black Journalists. |
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Public Editor to Bill Keller: ‘You Haven’t Got It’
Posted by Jay Rosen on 25 Feb 2008 | Tagged as: Commentary, New York Times, Ethics, Journalism, 08 Election, McCain
Next time you decide to suggest that a leading presidential candidate had an affair that compromises his reputation and threatens his entire campaign, my god, get some harder information.
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Pakistan Blocks YouTube Video Access
Posted by AP on 25 Feb 2008 | Tagged as: News, Free Speech, Ethics, Media Freedom, Journalism, New Media, Middle East, YouTube, Indecency
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By Sadaqat Jan, AP Pakistan’s government has banned access to the video-sharing Web site because of anti-Islamic movies that users have posted on the site. |
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By Kevin Johnson, USA Today A federal judge held a former USA TODAY reporter in contempt of court for failing to identify sources who named former Army scientist Steven Hatfill as a possible suspect in the 2001 anthrax attacks. |
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Guerrilla Bloggers And The Old Elite
Posted by Huffington Post on 15 Feb 2008 | Tagged as: News, Blogs, Ethics
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By Erik Ringmar, Huffinton Post CNN, a leading news channel, sacked one of its journalists for exercising his First Amendment rights. |
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Danish Newspapers Republish Prophet Cartoon
Posted by Reuters on 14 Feb 2008 | Tagged as: News, Free Speech, Ethics, Media Freedom, Journalism, Humor, Religious Right, Human Rights
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By Kim McLaughlin and Gelu Sulugiuc, Reuters The newspapers reprinted one of the drawings of the Prophet Mohammad that caused global Muslim outrage two years ago. |
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Senate OKs Bill To Extend Eavesdropping
Posted by LA Times on 13 Feb 2008 | Tagged as: News, Bush, Free Speech, Politics, Ethics, Policy, Telecommunications, privacy
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By Greg Miller, LA Times The Senate approved espionage legislation that would expand the government’s authority to intercept international phone calls and e-mails and to block lawsuits against U.S. telecommunications companies that aided in past spying efforts. |
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Kidnapped Reporter To Be Released ‘Within Hours’
Posted by Guardian Unlimited on 13 Feb 2008 | Tagged as: News, CBS, Ethics, JoshWolf, Media Freedom, Journalism, Middle East, Human Rights
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By Stephen Brook, Guardian Unlimited The British CBS journalist and Iraqi interpreter kidnapped in Basra will be released later today, according to news wire reports. |
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