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Reuters: Guardian says being sued by Iraqi intelligence

Posted on 29 May, 2009 by Martin Stabe
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"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."
Posted in Guardian, Iraq, libel, links | Leave a reply

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

Posted on 18 January, 2009 by Martin Stabe
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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."
Posted in gaza, israel, Journalism, links, Social Media | Leave a reply

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

Posted on 12 January, 2009 by Martin Stabe
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"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."
Posted in al-Jazeera, gaza, israel, links, Online, Television, Video, YouTube | Leave a reply

Reuters: Reuters seeks U.S. army video of staff killed in Iraq

Posted on 13 July, 2008 by Martin Stabe
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"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."
Posted in agencies, Iraq, links, Reuters, safety | Leave a reply

New York Times: Behind TV Analysts, Pentagon’s Hidden Hand

Posted on 20 April, 2008 by Martin Stabe
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"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
Posted in Ethics, Iraq, Journalism, links, Military, New York Times, Public Relations, Television | Leave a reply

The National

Posted on 17 April, 2008 by Martin Stabe
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Martin Newland's new paper for the UAE apparently hasn't heard of RSS...
Posted in links, RSS, thenational, UAE | Leave a reply

Guardian: Death, destruction and fear on the streets of cafes, poets and booksellers

Posted on 17 March, 2008 by Martin Stabe
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"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."
Posted in bpa, Guardian, Iraq, links, Video | Leave a reply

ITP.net: UAE users face part-ban of Facebook

Posted on 24 February, 2008 by Martin Stabe
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"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)."
Posted in Facebook, links, UAE | Leave a reply

TheyWorkForYou.com: Written Ministerial Statements: Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs (18 February 2008)

Posted on 20 February, 2008 by Martin Stabe
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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."
Posted in foi, FOIA, government, informationtribunal, Iraq, links, Parliament | Leave a reply

Independent: Freedom Of Information: Facebook – the new battleground in Iraq and Afghanistan

Posted on 9 February, 2008 by Martin Stabe
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"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]."
Posted in afghanistan, Facebook, foi, FOIA, Iraq, links, Military, MySpace, Public Relations, YouTube | Leave a reply

E&P: ‘NYT’ Probes Its Reporters and Their Spouses — In Iraq and In Ethical Minefields

Posted on 20 January, 2008 by Martin Stabe
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"[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
Posted in Ethics, Iraq, links, New York Times | Leave a reply

E&P: ‘NYT’ Probes Its Reporters and Their Spouses — In Iraq and In Ethical Minefields

Posted on 20 January, 2008 by Martin Stabe
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"[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
Posted in Ethics, Iraq, links, New York Times | Leave a reply

Obverver: Bridging the Gulf with grand aims and a huge budget

Posted on 23 December, 2007 by Martin Stabe
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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."
Posted in Abu Dhabi, business247, convergence, dubai, links, martinnewland, Newspapers, UAE | Leave a reply

ArabianBusiness.com: Concerns over Al Jazeera’s Saudi coverage

Posted on 14 December, 2007 by Martin Stabe
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"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."
Posted in al-Jazeera, links, Qatar, saudiarabia | Leave a reply

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