"Reuters wants all the materials to be able to study what happened. Access to the video, taken from helicopters involved in the attack, could also help improve Reuters’ safety policies in Iraq, the world’s most dangerous country for journalists."

"Hidden behind that appearance of objectivity, though, is a Pentagon information apparatus that has used those analysts in a campaign to generate favorable news coverage of the administration’s wartime performance, an examination by The New York Times h

Martin Newland’s new paper for the UAE apparently hasn’t heard of RSS…

"Ghaith Abdul-Ahad has been shortlisted for foreign correspondent of the year in the British Press Awards. He will be filing a series of remarkable profiles of ordinary Iraqis every day this week."

"Elements of the popular social networking website Facebook could be blocked to UAE net users next year as part of the telecoms regulator’s rollout of its forthcoming new Internet Penetration Policy (IPP)."

David Miliband: "In accordance with the Information Tribunal’s decision of 22 January 2008, I have today released what has been described as John Williams’ draft of the September 2002 Iraq weapons of mass destruction dossier."

"The MoD warns that "more discipline" and "greater enforcement" of military conduct rules is necessary to tackle "the publishing of unauthorised content on unofficial channels . . ." [like YouTube and social networking sites]."

"[The public editor's] piece examines charges that the paper’s well-known legal reporter Linda Greenhouse should excuse herself from covering stories that may have some link to the work of her husband, a lawyer involved in work on behalf of Gitmo prisoner

"[The public editor's] piece examines charges that the paper’s well-known legal reporter Linda Greenhouse should excuse herself from covering stories that may have some link to the work of her husband, a lawyer involved in work on behalf of Gitmo prisoner

Martin Newland on convergence: "’Badly done, it hits journalism, shuts down bureaux, reduces public interest and sells out in the long term to a short attention span. You create a wider but shallower content pool and your core brand suffers."

"Concerns have been raised that Qatar’s Al Jazeera television is dumbing down its coverage of Saudi Arabian affairs following the kingdom’s decision to allow the popular Arab network to cover the Haj pilgrimage."

"A series of accusations raised by the U.S. military against an Associated Press photographer detained for 19 months in Iraq are false or meaningless, according to an intensive AP investigation of the case made public Wednesday."

"Two Hollywood directors who are part of a wave of films about the war in Iraq and the broader fallout from the September 11, 2001 attacks have said they were only doing what media failed to do — telling the truth."

Seymour Hersh’s latest: "This summer, the White House, pushed by the office of Vice-President Dick Cheney, requested that the Joint Chiefs of Staff redraw long-standing plans for a possible attack on Iran, according to former officials and government cons