Media

Scores of journalists targeted in Syria: Amnesty - 05/03/2013

BEIRUT- Syria's regime and rebels fighting to overthrow it have killed, arbitrarily arrested and tortured scores of journalists over the past two years, rights group Amnesty International said on...

Four Italian journalists freed in Syria return home - 04/14/2013

ROME- Four Italian journalists held hostage in Syria for more than a week have been freed, Prime Minister Mario Monti announced Saturday, and they were flown home from Turkey. Italian media reported...

BBC in death song ding-dong with Thatcher fans - 04/13/2013

LONDON, Danny Kemp- The BBC said Friday it will play just five seconds of "Ding-Dong! The Witch is Dead" on its weekly radio chart show after it surged towards the top spot following Margaret...

Arab press group laments persecution of journalists - 04/08/2013

NOUAKCHOTT- The Arab Journalists Union on Monday lamented legal threats and restrictions affecting reporters working in the region, particularly in Egypt and Tunisia. The AJU "denounces legal...

New chief starts job of repairing BBC's reputation - 04/03/2013

The British Broadcasting Corporation was subsequently damaged by a botched television report wrongly indicating that a lawmaker was a paedophile, sparking a shake-up in the BBC's top posts. Engulfed...

Crucial vote looms on British press laws - 03/18/2013

LONDON- British MPs were on Monday to take a crucial vote on press regulation, with senior government members claiming a deal could still be brokered despite the breakdown of cross-party talks. Prime...

Yiddish paper gives 'dying' language new life - 02/03/2013

But now the newspaper, which also appears in English as The Forward, will be reborn for the 21st century with a website targeting what the New York-based institution believes is an untapped younger...

WikiLeaks to release files on 'every country' in 2013: Assange - 12/20/2012

LONDON- WikiLeaks will release one million documents next year affecting every country in the world, founder Julian Assange said in a speech from the balcony of the Ecuadorian embassy in London on...

Review slams BBC over Savile report but says no cover-up - 12/20/2012

LONDON, Alice Ritchie- An official report on Wednesday strongly criticised the BBC's handling of allegations of child sex abuse against late presenter Jimmy Savile, but cleared the world's biggest...

British PM meet newspaper editors, owners next week - 12/02/2012

LONDON- British Prime Minister David Cameron will meet editors and owners of national newspapers next week to seek their response to an inquiry into press ethics, a government spokesman said...
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