By Black Agenda Report
If a nationwide movement for media justice really exists, it must begin to expose the privatization of the public airwaves hidden in plain sight under the guise of the "transition" from analog to digital TV.
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By Felix Gillette, Matt Haber and John Koblin, NY Observer
Five Years Later, the American Press Corps in Iraq Is War-Weary and Depleted-Also Committed, Engaged and Desperately Seeking a Narrative to Wake Up Readers |
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By Curtis Brainard, Columbia Journalism Review
A month ago, the Republicans' presumptive nominee for president, John McCain, made a media splash with a speech reaffirming his commitment to tackle global warming. |
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By Gebe Martinez, Politico
While the dust was still settling last week in the Democratic presidential race between Obama and Clinton, presumptive Republican nominee McCain was kicking up his general election advertising war - on Spanish-language radio. |
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By Roy Greenslade, Greenslade Weblog
ProPublica, the not-for-profit investigative journalism initiative, is up and running. |
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By IFEX
A Palestinian journalist who tackled the fallout between Fatah and Hamas and a Lebanese student who wrote about the difficult path of modernisation in his country are this year's winners of the Samir Kassir Award for Freedom of the Press. |
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By IFEX
The vice-president of IFEX member the National Union of Somali Journalists (NUSOJ) was gunned down last week, days after the group had appealed to the UN Security Council to protect journalists in the conflict-ridden country. |
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