The digital media industry is besieged by standards that encourage the dumbing down of its work – consider what’s happening to the Washington Post
In the fight are Patrick Soon-Shiong and Jeff Bizos, who put pressure on the editors of the Los Angeles Times and Washington Post, X’s Elon Musk and Silicon Valley’s Peter Thiel
Two unrelated tales of citizen activism are a salient reminder that ordinary people can do extraordinary things
An examination of South African statistics reveal that the police are substantially more violent than those in the United States or Canada
Zimbabwe called its coup a military-assisted transition to sidestep sanctions. Mali is doing the same. But failing to call power grabs by their name makes it harder to defend democracy
Countries that have mandated mask-wearing for people going out in public have shown a decrease in the rate of Covid-19 infections
Beyond identifying and correcting important misinformation, fact-checkers must engage with politicians and the media
Are China or Russia ahead of the US in aerial technology or are intergalactic visitors trying to make friends with us?
Mueller reportedly complained that Barr’s letter did not capture ‘context’ of Trump probe
Jamal Khashoggi’s children receive million-dollar homes, payments, from Saudi Arabia, according to the Washington Post
Saud al-Qahtani is reportedly not among those indicted by Saudi Arabia over the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi
The episode can still be seen in other parts of the world — and in Saudi Arabia on YouTube
Saudi Arabia’s new foreign minister says the kingdom is not in crisis over critic Jamal Khashoggi’s murder
According to a Turkish daily, these items may have been used against journalist Jamal Khashoggi, who was murdered in the Saudi consulate
After a fortnight of denials, Saudi authorities admitted on Saturday that the Washington Post columnist was killed after entering the consulate
Matamela Cyril Ramaphosa has been elected the president of South Africa in Parliament on Thursday afternoon. How has the world responded?
Ben Bradlee’s death was announced by the Post, which reported last month that he had begun hospice care after suffering from Alzheimer’s disease.
Amazon founder Jeff Bezos’s offer of $250-million to buy the Washington Post newspaper has been accepted by the Graham family.
The ramifications of algorithms turning data into words rings warning bells for the news industry, writes Emily Bell.
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/ 25 November 2009
The Washington Post is closing its bureaus in Chicago, Los Angeles and New York as it retrenches to focus on news in the capital.
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/ 14 December 2008
Circulation is dropping and readers are going online to get news for free, leaving the US newspaper industry awash in red ink.
Sam Sole, the M&G‘s award-winning investigative reporter, and Matthew Burbidge, news editor of the M&G Online, interviewed Seymour Hersch, the original newsman, who says ”The wonderful thing about our profession is if we do it right, stories are not Democrat or Republican, left or right, hawk or dove, pro or anti-government. Stories are stories, and they’re just the truth.”
Barack Obama faced renewed questions on Wednesday about his ability to deliver a Democratic victory in November after his failure to knock out Hillary Clinton in Tuesday’s Pennsylvania primary. Clinton cast it as a turning point. ”The tide is turning,” she said in an email to supporters on Wednesday morning.
United States Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton faced increasing odds on Monday as a new opinion poll showed rival Barack Obama consolidating his nationwide support. A Gallup tracking survey indicated the Illinois senator extending his lead over Clinton among Democrats nationally to 52% versus 42%, Obama’s largest lead of the year so far.
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/ 20 February 2008
North Korea has been trying to ease American fears of a secret atomic weapons programme and also denies sharing nuclear technology with other countries, said the United States pointman. Christopher Hill said the North has been trying to show that equipment it purchased was not for use in a covert uranium enrichment programme.
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/ 10 October 2007
Shoddy construction work, safety lapses, kickbacks, internal disputes and ballooning costs — the new United States embassy complex in Baghdad is mired in a deluge of problems, with Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on the frontline of fire from lawmakers.
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/ 10 September 2007
The Bush administration’s most senior advisers on Iraq, the commander of US forces, General David Petraeus, and the ambassador to Baghdad, Ryan Crocker, will launch a new drive today to defer any exit of troops until April 2008 amid growing doubts about their credibility in Congress and among the public.