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Latvia also suspends Russian TV channel for war propaganda
Latvia has suspended broadcasting of the Russian TV channel RTR Planeta (TV Rossiaya) for three months. This follows monitoring carried out by the National Council on Electronic Media from March 2 to 17 which found the channel to be in breach of Latvian law. It is accused of war propaganda – of trying to justify military aggression and incitement to inter-ethnic enmity in its programmes about Ukraine.
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Cable News Coverage of Climate Science: Science or Spin?
An analysis of 2013 climate change coverage on CNN, Fox News, and MSNBC revealed that accuracy varied significantly across networks.
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Mysterious Chinese suicides spark debate, censorship
A series of mysterious apparent suicides by Chinese officials in the past three weeks, including of two senior figures, has sparked debate and questions among ordinary people here, as well as a fresh round of online censorship. Was President Xi Jinping’s anti-corruption drive putting so much pressure on his ruling Communist Party that some members were being driven to take their own lives? Was it all just a coincidence?
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Russian TV Propagandists Caught Red-Handed: Same Guy, Three Different People (Spy, Bystander, Heroic Surgeon)
Pity Russian propagandists. They must stage scenes of massive and violent demonstrations in East and South Ukraine. They must patch together actual demonstration footage with images of exploding grenades, intermittent automatic weapon fire, wounded pro-Russian civilians, and menacing Ukrainian extremists, organized, paid for, and directed by sinister outside forces.
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Guardian and Washington Post win Pulitzer prize for NSA revelations
The Guardian and the Washington Post have been awarded the highest accolade in US journalism, winning the Pulitzer prize for public service for their groundbreaking articles on the National Security Agency’s surveillance activities based on the leaks of Edward Snowden.
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Maker Studios Says Disney Acquisition Is Approved by Shareholders, Who Reject Relativity Bid
Maker Studios said Disney’s $500 million-plus offer for the YouTube multichannel network has already been approved by the majority of its shareholders — leaving Relativity Media’s eleventh-hour opposing bid dead in the water.
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Web Publishing Startup Squarespace Raises $40 Million
Squarespace, the New York-based startup that offers self-publishing Web tools, announced Tuesday it had raised a $40 million Series B round of venture financing. The round was led exclusively by General Atlantic, and the company will use the new funds to continue scaling its engineering, design and infrastructure teams. Previously, Squarespace raised a $38.5 million Series A round in 2010 led by Index Ventures and Accel Partners.
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Appeals court says blogs are not only media, they're an important source of news and commentary
An appeals court has ruled that a blogger is a member of the media for the purposes of defamation law — another decision that helps support the idea of protecting acts of journalism, rather than just specific people who are defined as professional journalists
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Infographic: Evolution of Newspaper Innovation
Newspapers are still cooler than you think.
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Russian bloggers are now officially mass media and have to register
Remember how ten years ago people argued about bloggers being new journalists and blogs becoming “Media 2.0″. How time goes by… So, Russian Parliament just decided that bloggers are in fact mass media. And if you have more than 3 thousands visitors per day you have to be registered as a media. Well, not as a “real media”, you don’t need to have a company and everything. But you have to show your name and contact address, verify your sources and abide all laws written for traditional media.
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The Aereo Case and the Future of Free Speech
The case against Aereo is the case against the little guy in America. If Aereo loses this time, will American media corporations be too big to stop?
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How censorship works in China’s media
You know that censorship has won its war on truth-telling when journalists happily police themselves
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Here Are 25 Extraordinarily Unfortunate Typos That Probably Offended Lots Of People. #5... OMG.
Always double-check your work.
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Pakistan's spy agency ISI accused of kidnapping and killing journalists
Amnesty International says it has "credible concerns" that Pakistan's powerful military spy agency kidnaps, threatens and even kills journalists who cross it. The allegations come amid an unprecedented public standoff between the Directorate of Inter-Services Intelligence (ISI) and the country's biggest media group over an attempt by unknown gunmen to kill Hamid Mir, a popular journalist on the Geo television network.
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How U.S. billionaire Sheldon Adelson is buying up Israel’s media
Las Vegas casino magnate and GOP super donor Sheldon Adelson is gambling on a new venture. On Wednesday, after the Israeli antitrust authority approved his purchase of two more news outlets, the Jewish American billionaire upped his ante in the country’s media market. Adelson already owns one of the four mainstream newspapers here, a free daily tabloid called Israel Hayom (Israel Today). He started that newspaper in 2007 and helped it grow to have the largest circulation in the country.
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Sorry seems to be a very popular word
Some say he is a sexist, xenophobic manchild, one who belongs in the 1800s along with his toxic, outdated worldview. Others say he’s a denim-clad maverick who should be Prime Minister, not slung up before a BBC Standards Committee for merely saying what we all think. All we know he’s called Jeremy Clarkson, and this week he was left with more egg on his face than UKIP’s Nigel Farage, after allegedly mumbling the N-word in a piece of unaired footage from BBC’s Top Gear.
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WordPress.com Parent Automattic Raises $160 Million, Valued at $1.16 Billion
Automattic, the company behind WordPress.com and other Web publishing tools, has raised $160 million from investors, including Insight Venture Partners, CEO Matt Mullenweg confirmed. The round values the nine-year-old company at $1.16 billion, after the investment, which is its first since it raised $12 million in 2008.
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Fox News used footage of random sad Asians instead of actual Koreans mourning the ferry
One sad Asian is as good as the next it seems. At least according to Fox News. In the clip about the tragic sinking of the Sewol ferry in South Korea, from a few weeks ago, Fox appears to have swapped in footage of random sad Asian people in place of mourning Koreans.
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How We Failed the Girls Kidnapped by Boko Haram
We were fascinated with the search for the Malaysian plane and the search for survivors on the South Korean ferry. Why wasn't the media also focused on searching for the missing girls?
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NBC Is Betting $7.65 Billion That It Knows What TV Will Look Like in 2032
Fans of the Olympics are often in it for the tradition, and that includes NBC, the network that agreed on Wednesday to pay $7.65 billion for the rights to broadcast the games on television and online until 2032. The network has been accused at times of letting its Olympic spirit get in the way of its bottom line. Now it’s betting not only that it can make a good business of the games, but that it can do so while adjusting to the next 18 years of shifts in media consumption habits.
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