ource of information by Peter Horrocks, the new director of BBC Global News who took over last week. He said it was important for editorial staff to make better use of social media and become more collaborative in producing stories. “This isn’t just a kind of fad from someone who’s an enthusiast of technology. I’m [...]
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Campaigning journalists and media workers are to launch EXPOSE, a campaign aimed at “revealing the undemocratic and racist nature” of the British National Party. The new campaign will tackle the BNP’s “attempts to construct a respectable public image” and support media workers who refuse to work on uncritical programmes or material, the group announced on Tuesday.
The Committee to Protect Journalists urges the Tunisian judiciary to reverse on appeal the Wednesday decision of a Tunisian court in the southern town of Gafsa to sentence Fahem Boukadous, correspondent for the satellite television station Al-Hiwar Al-Tunisi, to a four-year prison term. Boukadous told CPJ he had been sentenced in absentia in December 2008 to [...]
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The independent student publication for the University of Notre Dame and Saint Mary’s College in the United States has issued an unreserved apology for the publication of a cartoon which made a joke about violence against gay people. The paper has also begun an internal investigation. In an editorial statement on the papers website the [...]
Sky News has launched a campaign for the restrictions on television cameras in courts to be lifted. The campaign will start after the general election which is expected to take place in May. In a speech to the Cambridge Union Society, John Ryley, Head of Sky News said: “There remains one more branch of our [...]
Google have indicated that they are to review their commerical operations in China on the foot of “a highly sophisticated and targeted attack on [Google's] corporate infrastructure originating from China that resulted in the theft of intellectual property from Google”. Google have indicated that the motivation for the attack seems to have been politically motivated. [...]
