Guardian editor Alan Rusbridger had no problem justifying the press’s freedom to inform the public about mass surveillance.
The editor of a daily newspaper in the Democratic Republic of Congo has begun serving a six-month jail term after being convicted of criminal libel.
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/ 19 November 2004
The shift from reading newspapers to surfing the net appears to be speeding up. A study of declining circulation figures and the statistics that show the increasing use of newspaper websites suggests that the switch from print to screen is happening more swiftly than web missionaries might have predicted. People of all ages are becoming used to obtaining not only breaking news through their computers but also analysis of, and comment on, the day’s main stories.