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Tue, 22 Apr 2008
Choke Hold
How Jordan tames its press
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About halfway through a press conference in Amman last July convened to announce the launch of ATV, Jordan’s first privately owned satellite television station, an assistant passed the station’s head, Mohannad Khatib, a note. “They took our signal off the air,” it read.
After two years spent negotiating the licenses, working around government interference, securing millions...
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Thu, 11 Oct 2007
Private Matters
A new push to rein in the tabloids has British reporters on edge
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One of the biggest scandals to engulf the British press since princess Diana’s death began with a trivial bit of gossip about her eldest son. In late 2005, Rupert Murdoch’s tabloid News of the World ran a story about Prince William’s plans to meet with Tom Bradby, a well-known television reporter and trusted confidant of the prince’s. Bradby was... Read More
Tue, 12 Jun 2007
Style Over Substance
Despite India’s media boom, its journalism is shrinking.
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Before moving to New York in August 2006, I met with fellow journalists and writers in New Delhi. The conversations always veered to an irritatingly familiar topic: Where is the space in Indian journalism for serious, detailed reportage? It is a bizarre conversation in light of the tremendous expansion of media in India. The economic liberalization in the early... Read More
