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Reuters: Guardian says being sued by Iraqi intelligence

Friday, 29 May 2009, 07:47

"Iraq's intelligence service is suing the Guardian newspaper for defamation, after it ran a story describing Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki's administration as 'increasingly autocratic,' the newspaper said."

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Notes from a Teacher: Making it easy to roll their own news

Sunday, 18 January 2009, 23:53

Mark Hamilton: "It’s not difficult to foresee a time when anyone with an internet connection will be able to click a few buttons and put some check marks in boxes to mashups their own sources for single-service delivery to their desktop or, more likely, their phone."

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New York Times: Few in U.S. See Al Jazeera’s Coverage of Gaza War

Monday, 12 January 2009, 09:38

"Al Jazeera said that since the war started the number of people watching its broadcasts via the Livestream service has increased by over 500 percent, and the views of videos on its YouTube channel have increased by more than 150 percent."

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 Sunday, 13 July 2008, 07:18 0

"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."

 Sunday, 20 April 2008, 14:52 0

"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

 Thursday, 17 April 2008, 08:47 0

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

 Monday, 17 March 2008, 17:39 0

"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."

 Sunday, 24 February 2008, 15:39 0

"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)."

 Wednesday, 20 February 2008, 11:07 0

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."

 Saturday, 9 February 2008, 15:45 0

"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]."

 Sunday, 20 January 2008, 18:55 0

"[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

 Sunday, 20 January 2008, 18:55 0

"[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

 Sunday, 23 December 2007, 10:43 0

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."

 Friday, 14 December 2007, 08:28 0

"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."

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