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France to shut embassies after magazine publishes Muhammad cartoons
A magazine in France has published cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad naked, less than a week after an anti-Islamic film sparked violent protests around the world Read more »
Former Times journalist arrested by police investigating computer hacking
Media monitor, August 29: The arrest of Patrick Foster is understood to be related to unmasking of the NightJack blogger by the Times newspaper in 2009 Read more »
Samsung lashes out at Apple after patent defeat
Media Monitor, Tuesday August 28: Samsung has lashed out at Apple after losing its high-profile US court battle over patents that led to a $12bn loss in market value for Samsung Read more »
The New Yorker hands over Instagram account to guest photographers
The New Yorker magazine has commenced a new experiment, handing over its Instagram account to staff photographers. See our gallery of stunning images from the New Yorker’s Instagram account Read more »
Arianna Huffington launches HuffPost Live video network
On Monday morning at 10am, Arianna Huffington and Roy Sekoff launched HuffPost Live – a stream of daily video content, live 12 hours per day. Will it turn out to be a success? Read more »
Liberal media bias in American news: fact or fiction?
The commonly held view that mainstream American news has a ‘liberal bias’ is a myth, according to new research. Negative coverage for Barack Obama was 17% higher than for Mitt Romney Read more »
The New Yorker launches on iPhone with a free edition
Condé Naste’s flagship weekly arts and culture magazine, The New Yorker, launched its mobile app this week, offering its first issue entirely free Read more »
Hoax New York Times Wikileaks feature even fools the NYT
Wikileaks, the whistle-blowing website founded by controversial journalist Julian Assange, has claimed credit for a complicated hoax opinion piece ostensibly by New York Times columnist Bill Keller Read more »
Germany’s second largest news agency files for bankruptcy
Insolvency proceedings have been agreed by the District Court of Berlin-Charlottenburg as Germany’s second largest news agency, DAPD, has filed for bankruptcy Read more »