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World Media

Oct 14, 2008: Is a Geopolitical Power Shift Taking Place?
Comments: 0 | Categories: Foreign Affairs , World Media
Lauren Drablier, "a graduate student in International Affairs at Sciences Po Paris" who "currently works for the World Association of Newspapers," notes in an October 14, 2008, post at Nieman Watchdog that: News concerning the financial crisis has taken over...

Jul 17, 2008: Anchors Jockeying for Interviews With Obama on Foreign Trip
Comments: 0 | Categories: U.S. Politics , World Media
American national news anchors Brian Douglas Williams of NBC, Katherine Anne "Katie" Couric of CBS and Charles deWolfe Gibson of ABC will join presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Barack Obama on his foreign trip this summer to Jordan, Israel, the Palestinian...

Jan 27, 2008: Kenyan Bloggers Show How Technology Can Shape Politics'
Comments: 0 | Categories: African Affairs , World Media
Kenyan Journalist Charles Onyango-Obbo, writing in the January 28, 2008, edition of The East African of Kenya, made the following observation: One of the things that brought a lethal edge to the Kenyan election is that, unlike Ugandans, Kenyans are...

Dec 2, 2006: Xinhua: Beirut Street Demonstrations Spark Battle Among The Press
Comments: 0 | Categories: World Media
Xinhua, the official Chinese news agency, says "Mass street demonstration in Beirut sparks "battle" among press." Surely, that's no surprise. The press is as diverse as the citizenry.

Nov 21, 2006: Can Al-Jazeera Break The CNN, BBC Global News Monopoly?
Comments: 0 | Categories: World Media
When Al Jazeera launched its English language television news network on November 15, 2006, it was billed as an effort "to reverse the information flow from South to North and to provide a voice to under-reported regions around the world.”...

Jun 21, 2005: Chrenkoff's Interview With Editor's Of Ya Libnan
Comments: 0 | Categories: World Media
On June 17, 2005, Arthur Chrenkoff, proprietor of the blog Chrenkoff, published an interview with the editors of Ya Libnan, who asked to remain anonymous. The interview is quite good. Here is the Chrenkoff version. Also see Ya Libnan's version....

May 9, 2005: Wall Street Journal's Asia, Europe Editions Going Tabloid
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"The Wall Street Journal, moving to curb losses and attract new readers to its international editions, confirmed Sunday [May 8, 2005] that it planned to shift its Asian and European editions from broadsheet to tabloid format effective October 17. 2005,"...

Apr 16, 2005: Cobban: IWPR's Iraq Projects Are in 'Real Trouble.'
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Helena Cobban at Just World News noted in an April 16, 2005 post that, "The Institute for War & Peace Reporting's (link added) Iraq projects have sadly been in real trouble recently." She added: I don't know if all their...

Mar 2, 2005: Latest Issue of Syria Today Posted to Web
Comments: 0 | Categories: World Media
The latest edition of Syria Today has been posted on the web. As Joshua Landis at Syria Comment notes, "This is the third issue of the new Magazine put out in Syria in English."

Feb 27, 2005: WSJ: 'White House Press Room as Political Stage'
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Christopher Cooper and John D. McKinnon, writing in the February 25, 2005 edition of The Wall Street Journal, said "the power of the presidency has always attracted offbeat characters to the White House briefing room." They opined: But the trend...