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"Shocking Secrets Revealed: Illegal Means Used to Carve Up Live Humans for Human Consumption"

Rev. Barbara Kaufmann | Posted 10.11.2011

Read More: Future of Journalism, Journalists, Print Journalism, News of the World Hacking Scandal, News of the World Phone Hacking, Tabloids, British Tabloids, Media, Press, Tabloid, Journalism, Mainstream Media, Social Media, Phone Hacking, Hacking Scandal, Ethics in Journalism, Ethics, Rupert Murdoch, Rupert Murdoch Phone Hacking, Media Criticism, Murdoch, Phone Hacking Scandal, Hacking, Murdoch Phone Hacking, Tabloid Journalism, Media News

Do you really welcome and enjoy the emotional, metaphorical or actual wounding and bleeding of a fellow human as tabloids claim you do?

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Nabbed Gangster Accuses FBI Of Leaking Information To Press

South End, MA Patch | Posted 08.28.2011

Read More: Boston, Boston Globe, Bulger, Crime, James Bulger, Peter Krupp, Whitey Bulger, Fbi, Press, James Whitey Bulger, Crime News

James "Whitey" Bulger has accused the FBI of leaking information to the press and is demanding the agency stop, according to court filings....

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Getting Big Press

Josh Tetrick | Posted 08.08.2011

Read More: Poverty, Crowdfunding, Green, Nonprofit, Conservation, Liberia, Personal Branding, Media, Press, Blogs, Social Enterprise, Social Media, Education, Recycle, Social, Social Entrepreneurship, Advertising, Service, Nature, Africa, Environment, Trash, Sustainability, Startups, Marketing, Social Good, Branding, Fashion, Development, Blogging, Global Warming, Impact News

Remember: Simple, personal, and genuine. And a little tenacity, especially in the world of impact and social good, goes a long, long way.

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OPEC's Agression Against the World's Economy

Raymond J. Learsy | Posted 08.08.2011

Read More: Energy, Saudi Oil Minister Ali Al-Naimi, World, Opec, Saudi Arabia, Oil Prices, OPEC Meeting, Oil, Media, Press, Business News

To listen to the Saudis and their friends in the press, they are doing the very best they can about sky-high prices at the pump, and we should all be thankful. The sham is preposterous, and yet they are able to game us again and again.

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Press in China

Jeff Danziger | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Foreign Press, Press, Arab Revolts, China, Political Cartoons, Politics News

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The Press and the Current Middle East Crisis

Dr. Josef Olmert | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Foreign Correspondents, Media, Press, Middle East, Egypt, World News

The in the Middle East crisis is just nearing the end of the beginning, far from the beginning of the end. So, the press still has the time to live up to the expectations of the public and save its reputation.

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Breaking News: The President Has Feelings?

Dyane Jean François | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Gibbs, Mainstream Media, White House, President Obama, Obama, Media, Press, Robert Gibbs, News, Barack Obama, Media News

It seems safe to say that as a political leader Barack Obama probably had an agenda to hit with his speech in Arizona. But what was in his heart? Well, we will never know .

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White House Bans Shirtless Photos Of Obama On Hawaii Vacation

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Hawaii Vacation, Paparazzi, Barack Obama, President Obama, Obama, Obama Shirtless, Media, Press, Obama Hawaii, Media News

No magazine cover shots this time: The White House banned reporters and photographers from taking shirtless pictures of President Obama while he snork...

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You Can't Shut WikiLeaks Without Shutting Democracy

Hugh McGuire | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Julian Assange, Lieberman, Democracy, Media, Press, Leaks, Wikileaks, Free Speech, Politics News

My mother just asked what i thought about WikiLeaks, and finally I had an answer. My gut reaction from the beginning has been to support WikiLeaks, but i haven't articulated that support till now:

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Lulu Kennedy Presents Lulu & Co (VIDEO)

Constantin Bjerke | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Fashion, Bloggers, Holly Fulton, Press, Buyer, London, Pugh, Paris, Catwalk, Jonathon Saunders, Show, LuLu & Co, Matches, Truman Brewery, Roksanda Ilincic, East London, Topshop, Lulu Kennedy, Richard Nicoll, Designers, crane.tv, Lulu, Fashion East, Fashion Week, Sponsor, Harvey Nichols, Style News

Lulu Kennedy, founder and director of Fashion East, catches up with Crane.tv to talk about her latest venture: Lulu & Co. After supporting ten years w...

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The King is Naked! In defense of Michele Santoro.

Aldo Civico | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Future of Journalism, Italy, Venezuela, Hugo Chavez, Peru, Free Press, Mauro Masi, Mexico, Alan Garcia, Media, Press, Rai, Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, Journalism, Anno Zero, Freedom of Speech, President Hugo Chavez, Guatemala, Liberty, Ethics in Journalism, Colombia, Silvio Berlusconi, Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi, Freedom, Alvaro Uribe, Honduras, Michele Santoro, Media News

There is no democracy, unless there is dissent and that dissent can be overtly expressed. It obfuscates one's mind to see how heads of states, democra...

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Media freedom and violence prevention

Nicholas van Praag | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Fragile States, Checks and Balances, South Africa, Jacob Zuma, South-Africa-Violence, Governance, Africa, Freedom, African National Congress, Media, Press, World News

This post originally appeared on the Conflict and Development blog on September 1, 2010. True believers in press freedom. Photo: Brooks Kraft/Sygma...

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Wild Experimentation in San Francisco's Local News Scene

Christin Evans | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Journalists, New York Times, Citizen Journalism, San Francisco, Local News, Local, Journalism, San Francisco-California, Free Press, Press, Media News

In San Francisco, hyperlocal sites have sprouted in all compass directions with terrific reporting of local neighborhood news.

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The Best of All Possible Americas

Marty Kaplan | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Mainstream Media, Media Coverage, Media Criticism, Media, Free Press, Press, Media Bias, Media News

Our free press has been so intimidated by right-wing pressure groups and their media enablers that the job of fact-finding has been replaced by the grotesque practice of "balancing" charges with countercharges.

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Eighty Years to Right a Wrong: Baseball, Politics, and the Press

Kate Kelly | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Jackie Robinson, Major League Baseball, Politics, Negro Leagues, Baseball, Press, Baseball Hall of Fame, Sports News

A significant moment in baseball occurred in New York on July 5, 1930. For the first time ever, Yankee Stadium hosted a game featuring two teams from the Negro Leagues, but no one in 1930 could have read about the game in the New York Times.

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Daniel Pearl Act Identifies Violations of Press Freedom Globally

Daoud Kuttab | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Jordanians, US State Department, Wall Street Journal, Press, Daniel Pearl, Press Freedoms, Journalism, Washington, World News

With little fanfare in Washington and with few countries in the world noticing, President Barack Obama signed into law an act that will hold governments all around the world accountable for violations of human rights.

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Remembering World Press Freedom Day

Kiyotaka Akasaka | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: World Press, Freedom of the Press, Un, Press, World Press Day, United Nations, Video, World News

May 3 is World Press Freedom Day. This day on the UN calendar gives us an opportunity to re-focus attention on the sad fact that in dozens of nations around the globe censorship remains a fact of life.

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40 'Predators Of The Press' Named By Reporters Without Borders

AP | Laurent Houssay | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Predators of the Press, Reporters Without Borders, Press, Press Freedoms, Media, Ali Abdullah Saleh, Paul Kagame, World News

PARIS — Media advocacy group Reporters Without Borders on Monday put Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin and Chinese President Hu Jintao on it...

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Are Blogs Truly Competitive With the Mainstream Media in Terms of Quality of Content?

Reggie Middleton | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Blogs, Banks, Venture Capital, Media, Press, Stocks, Investment, Finance, Media News

The climate for blogs is almost always lousy. Many blogs don't generate profits or have a clear or sustainable business model.

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Joe Biden At 2010 Radio & TV Correspondents' Dinner: VP Biden Jokes About Israel Visit, Naked Rahm, Tips From Tiger Woods (VIDEO)

Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Journalists, Dick Morris, St. Patrick's Day, Scott Brown, Liz Cheney, Saint Patrick's Day, Palestinians, Champ, Settlements, Obama, Tiger Woods, Joe Biden, Viceo, Press, Race, Recovery Act, Standup Comedy, Standup, 2010 Radio Tv Correspondents Dinner, Rahm Emanuel, Routine, Health Care Reform, Eric Massa, Housing Boom, Fox News, Irish, Israel, Politics News

Vice President Joe Biden delivered some very funny one-liners Wednesday night at the 2010 Radio and Television Correspondents' Dinner. While Biden ce...

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Watching the Watchdogs: My New Media Job

Greg Mitchell | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Journalists, Newspapers, Iraq, The Nation, Media, Cable News, Press, Journalism, Media News

Our media watchdogs require close watching. So I'll be editing The Nation's first blog devoted to highlighting the best and worst of current media several times a day.

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Will Obama Hold Another Press Conference?

David Bromwich | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Robert Gibbs, White House, Obama Media Coverage, Media Coverage, Press Conference, White House Press Corps, Media, Press Corps, Press, Helen Thomas, Media News

We hear plenty of this president by other means. But we ought to reckon what we have lost if the White House goes on treating the presidential press conference as an outmoded convention.

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The People of Gaza and a Reporter: Victims of the NY Times' Stubbornness

Daoud Kuttab | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Palestinian Israeli Conflict, Press, Jerusalem, Ethan Bronner, Gaza, Objectivity, Ethics, Bill Keller, Israeli Army, Palestine, NY Times, Idf, Media News

As a result of the reluctance of the executive editor of theNY Times to do the right thing, the newspaper has lost its star Gaza reporter and has short changed its readers.

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A Victory for Online Journalism

Rory O'Connor | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Media, Press, Citizen Journalism, Online News, Journalism, Michael Bloomberg, Bloggers, The City of New York, New York City, Media News

The City of New York announces a new press credentialing system that, for the first time, will include online media.

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Obama Should Hold Press Conference Soon

Chris Weigant | Posted 05.25.2011

Obama has spent less than an hour in front of the media since his last formal primetime press conference back in July. He needs to hold another -- both for the public's sake and for his own.

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