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Twitter owner Elon Musk presented the site's new media relations plan, revealing that journalists who communicate with the company's press department will be greeted with a "shit 💩" emoji.…
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In the basement of the National Library of Tunis, conservator Hasna Gabsi combs through shelves of newspapers dating back to the mid-19th century to select the latest to digitise. She picks out a yellowed copy of an Arabic-language…
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Morocco is jailing journalists after flawed trials for non-political crimes, particularly sexual ones, in order to silence them, part of a range of “techniques of repression,” Human Rights Watch said Thursday. “Moroccan authorities have…
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Italian journalist Eugenio Scalfari, considered by many to have revolutionized Italian journalism, died on Thursday at the age of 98. In 1978, Scalfari founded La Repubblica, one of the country’s leading newspapers, where he held the…
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Lebanon’s information minister George Kordahi on Tuesday labeled himself a “great defender of press freedom” and denied accusations that he was trying to repress the media. Kordahi, who was appointed to the new cabinet last month, has…
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Iranian newspapers voiced concern on Sunday about the potential turnout for next month’s presidential poll, a day after candidate registration ended with several heavyweights joining the race. The reformist press was particularly…
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The challenges facing Turkish journalists came under the spotlight again on May 3, World Press Freedom Day, with experts saying the COVID-19 pandemic had made conditions harder for the media. The government controls 90 percent of…
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A Mexican reporter was fatally shot in Veracruz, Mexico, on March 30, 2020, marking the first assassination of a media member in the country last year. The killing was a grim example of the violent attacks journalists face worldwide.…
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