the guardian: Turkish journalists accuse Erdoğan of media witch-hunt

Reporters say the government is pursuing one of the worst crackdowns on press freedoms since the military junta in 1980s [more…]

zeit online: Kriegsreporterin Marie Colvin – Die Frau, die nicht wegsah

Marie Colvin, die Kriegsreporterin der “Sunday Times”, starb im Bürgerkrieg in Syrien. Sie wird als Heldin bewundert. [mehr…]

spiegel online: Fernsehreporter-Legende Mike Wallace ist tot

As the Titanic was sinking in the North Atlantic, its more than 2,000 passengers and crew scrambling in the dark for lifeboats, a young man far away in Wales heard the ship’s distress calls on his homemade radio. [more…]

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washington post: Sean Hoare, News of the World whistleblower, found dead, Guardian reports

Guardian reports that Sean Hoare, the former News of the World reporter who first claimed that Andy Coulson knew of phone hacking by his staff, has been found dead at his home. The police told the Guardian that they do not know how Hoare died, but do not believe the cause of death to be suspicious [more…].

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I have important things to say about the News of the World and the steps we are taking to address the very serious problems that have occurred. [more…]

churnalism.com: Churn engine to distinguish journalism from churnalism – Suchmaschine die anzeigt, welcher Nachrichtentext aus einer Pressveröffentlichung kopiert wurde

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Guardian: Churnalism or news? How PRs have taken over the media

A new website promises to shine a spotlight on “churnalism” by exposing the extent to which news articles have been directly copied from press releases [more…]

Deutschlandradio: Fazit: Suspendierter ungarischer Redakteur hofft auf Änderungen des Mediengesetzes

Der ungarische Radiojournalist Zsolt Bogar, der kurz vor Weihnachten für eine Protestschweigeminute suspendiert wurde, rechnet mit Änderungen an dem weltweit kritisierten neuen Mediengesetz seines Landes. [mehr…]
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