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Revelers celebrate with a sparkler near the White House after President Barack Obama announced that U.S. authorities have recovered the dead body of Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, in the early morning hours in Washington, May 2, 2011. (REUTERS)

These Students Didn’t Know Bin Laden Was Dead. How Did We Get so Clueless about News?

by Margaret Sullivan | Sep 19, 2016 | Media

Veteran journalist Alan Miller tells the story of the high school students who, years after the fact, didn’t know that Osama bin Laden had been killed. These were seniors, no less — in a journalism class at a well-regarded New York City charter school. “Their reaction...

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“Don’t Fence Us in!” Journalist Tells UN Meeting

by Amir Taheri | Jun 27, 2016 | Media

Geneva – “Should the United Nations play a leading role in countering hate speech and expressions of “violent extremism” in the media?” This was the question debated by a special panel at the Palace of the Nations, the European headquarters of the...

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Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani addresses the audience during a meeting in Ankara June 10, 2014. REUTERS/Umit Bektas

Iran Shuts Down Newspaper over Revolutionary Guards Complaint

by Asharq Al-Awsat English | Jun 20, 2016 | Media

Days after Iranian President Hassan Rouhani called for greater freedom of expression in the media, authorities shut down on Monday the Ghanoon newspaper for criticizing the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC), the newspaper said in a statement on its website....

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A BBC logo is seen at the company’s offices, in west London on December 7, 2004. Reuters Photographer

Government Unveils ‘Major Overhaul’ for BBC

by Thaer Abbas | May 12, 2016 | Media

Britain stepped back from cutting the size and scope of the BBC on Thursday, as it unveiled the Government’s blueprint for the future of the BBC which will be regulated by an external organization for the first time in its 90-year history. External regulation...

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Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashed surrounded by journalists and honored winners at the conclusion ceremony for the Arab Media Forum in its 15th edition, Asharq Al-Awsat

Arab Media Forum Concludes…Abdulrahman al-Rashed Awarded Media Personality of the Year

by Musaid Al-Zayani | May 12, 2016 | Media

Dubai-The Arab Media Forum concluded on Wednesday by honoring Al Arabiya’s Former General Manager Abdulrahman Al-Rashed with the “Media Personality of the Year” award, which was handed to him by UAE Vice President, Prime Minister and Ruler of Dubai Sheikh Mohammed bin...

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An issue of The New Day newspaper

British Newspaper to Close Only 9 Weeks after its Start

by Asharq Al-Awsat English | May 5, 2016 | Media

An experimental British newspaper, The New Day, is shutting down just two months after it was published because its circulation failed to meet expectations. Publisher Trinity Mirror revealed the planned closure in a trading update Thursday. The newspaper — the first...