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Donations to nonprofit journalism groups like the Marshall Project have been increasing. The organization’s editor in chief, Bill Keller, left, and Neil Barsky, the founder and chairman, in the Marshall Project offices. Credit Fred R. Conrad/The New York Times

Nonprofit Journalism Groups Are Gearing Up With Flood of Donations

by Nicholas Birch | Dec 26, 2016 | Media

Washington — It did not take long after election night for the donations to start pouring in to America’s nonprofit journalism organizations. Almost a month later, the money keeps coming, $10 and $20 and sometimes hundreds of dollars or more from small donors all over...

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Syria: The World’s Deadliest Country for Journalists

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Dec 20, 2016 | Media

Paris- Syria has topped the list of the most dangerous countries for journalists in 2016, according to statistics issued by the press freedom group, Reporters Without Borders (RSF). The group said that 57 journalists have been killed around the world in 2016 while...

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Donald J. Trump’s frequent use of Twitter to express his views has inspired calls from some to have him banned from the platform. Credit Doug Chayka

Twitter has the Right to Suspend Donald Trump. But it Shouldn’t.

by Farhad Manjoo | Dec 19, 2016 | Media, World

If Twitter wanted to, it would be well within its rights to suspend Donald J. Trump’s account. After the president-elect used Twitter last week to criticize Chuck Jones, an Indiana union leader who represents workers at the Carrier company, Mr. Jones reported...

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Rupert Murdoch, Executive Chairman News Corp and Chairman and CEO 21st Century Fox speaks at the WSJD Live conference in Laguna Beach, California October 29, 2014. REUTERS/Lucy Nicholson/Files

Murdoch’s Twenty-First Century Fox Puts up a Bid for UK’s Sky

by Asharq Al-Awsat English | Dec 9, 2016 | Media

Twenty-First Century Fox Inc has officially made a $14.1 billion offering for the remaining shares of European pay-TV group Sky Plc that the U.S. company does not already own, the British broadcaster said on Friday. Rupert Murdoch’s Twenty-First Century Fox is...

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Russian President Vladimir Putin listens to a statement from his Belarusian counterpart Alexander Lukashenko after a session of the Supreme State Council of Russia-Belarus Union State in Minsk, Belarus, February 25, 2016. REUTERS/Alexei Druzhinin/Sputnik/Kremlin

Moscow Frets Media Restrictions after EU Bill on Disinformation

by Taha Abed alWahed | Nov 28, 2016 | Media

Moscow- A wide wave of contempt hit Russian state institutions after the European Union parliament passed a resolution on counteracting Russia’s state-sponsored propaganda. During its Nov.23 session, 394 European parliamentarians supported the bill, while 179...

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Prince Badr bin Abdullah bin Farhan Al-Saud and new editor-in-chief Ghassan Charbel (Asharq Al-Awsat)

Ghassan Charbel: Asharq Al-Awsat’s New Editor-in-Chief

by Asharq Al-Awsat | Nov 24, 2016 | Media

Riyadh– Saudi Research and Marketing Group (SRMG) Chairman Prince Badr bin Abdullah bin Farhan issued a decision to assign Lebanese journalist Ghassan Charbel as the editor-in-chief of Asharq Al-Awsat newspaper effective Nov. 24, 2016. “The appointment complies...