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BBC warns of ‘unprecedented threat’ to independent news
Addressing The World Media Summit in Moscow today, Peter Horrocks, Director of BBC Global News called on authorities worldwide to protect the rights of journalists to report freely Read more »
Tunisian media commission resigns over censorship
Kamel Labidi, the Tunisian commission charged with drafting Tunisia’s new media laws resigned on Wednesday, citing the lack of government will to create the institutions of a free press
How the media attempted to explain the Higgs boson
As sober scientists openly wept at the ‘discovery’ of the Higgs boson yesterday, the media world began the difficult task of explaining the findings’ significance Read more »
Spotlight on Meedan
Meedan is an award-winning non-profit technology organisation based in San Francisco. The Arabic word meedan describes a town square or a gathering place. The organisation’s mission is to facilitate cross cultural communication, cooperation, and exchange of ideas by developing technologies to overcome the language barrier in online communication Read more »
Cuts and closures bring Northcliffe Media profit
Northcliffe Media managing director Steve Auckland has sent a memo to his staff announcing that he believes “print will be around for a long time to come,” Press Gazette reported today Read more »
Spotlight on Women’s Views on News
The Journalism Foundation is committed to uncovering and supporting media projects that have a positive effect on people’s lives. In our Spotlight series we invite organisations from across the world to write about how their project came about and what they aim to do Read more »
How the media view military intervention in Syria
The international press has debated the question of military intervention in Syria from a myriad of different perspectives. We present a roundup of views from across the globe Read more »
Why the media is misreporting climate change
The future of the planet once again made headlines in Rio last week. Sadly, it’s quite likely that the newspapers were getting plenty of their coverage wrong, writes William McDowall Read more »
One year after the death of the News of the World
Neville Thurlbeck, former news editor of the News of the World, gives his very personal views on how things have changed one year on from the closure of the British tabloid Read more »