Journalism

Khashoggi Will Continue To Haunt MBS

October 1, 2019 Abdel Bari Atwan, Raialyoum.com Educate! Journalism, Repression, Saudi Arabia

Saudi Crown Prince Muhammad bin Salman’s partial admission of responsibility for the murder last year of journalist Jamal Khashoggi at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul seems at first to be big news and a bold step. But a closer reading of the text of his remarks, made in an interview with the American PBS channel for a documentary to be aired next week, reveals it to be no such thing. It is merely his latest attempt to clear himself of the charge that he personally ordered the killing, as indicated by US intelligence reports based on taped recordings of conversations in the consulate building.

Wave Of Arrests Of Journalists, Website Blocking In Egypt

September 30, 2019 Staff, Rsf.org Educate! Censorship, Egypt, Journalism, Repression

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) condemns the latest attempts by the Egyptian authorities to gag the media, in which at least six journalists have been detained in a week-old wave of anti-government protests. The reporters detained since the protests began on 20 September, in response to the actor Mohamed Ali’s accusations of governmental corruption, have brought the total number journalists imprisoned in Egypt to 31. One of the first reporters to be arrested was Engy Abdel Wahab, who began working as a trainee with the newspaper Al-Masry Al-Youm just weeks ago.

In Defense Of Cory Morningstar’s Manufacturing For Consent Series

September 28, 2019 Hiroyuki Hamada, Dissidentvoice.org Educate! Ideology, Journalism, Media

Good investigative journalism doesn’t only reveal hidden mechanisms of our time; it also exposes those who refuse to confront the mechanisms. Remember when the late Bruce Dixon courageously and cogently called Bernie Sanders “a sheep dog candidate”? Remember when Eva Bertlett, Vanessa Beeley and others truly stood with Syrian people in opposing the western intervention? I do. Those who could not face the reality came up with all sorts of profanities and ill conceived theories to demonize the messengers.

From Co-ops To Direct Public Offerings, Local News Outlets Get Creative To Stay Afloat

September 5, 2019 Bonnie O'Keefe, Nextcity.org Create! Cooperatives, Journalism, Media

The journalism landscape has transformed dramatically since the turn of the millennium when more than 400,000 people were employed at newspapers in the US. By September 2016, less than half that number remained employed, and over the first five months of this year, some 3,000 news workers lost their jobs, too. Roughly 1,800 newspapers shut their doors between 2004 and 2018, according to a University of North Carolina study. The impact on local journalism, which has seen tech giants gobble up 77 percent of local digital advertising, can’t be overstated.

A Year Of Organizing Freelance Journalists

September 4, 2019 Staff, Organizing.work Organize! Class Struggle, Journalism, Labor Unions, Workers

In March of 2019, the Industrial Workers of the World Freelance Journalists Union unintentionally went public. Having recently settled on a formal name for the organization, committee members were attempting to subtly stake out corresponding web assets, but the IWW FJU’s Twitter account — the social media platform most popular with journalists — immediately exploded. Within 24 hours, the union had received more than a hundred requests from freelancers looking to learn more. The IWW FJU was officially on the map.

In A Major Press Freedom Victory, Brazil Supreme Court Judge Rules To Protect Glenn Greenwald And The Intercept Brasil

August 10, 2019 Trevor Timm, Freedom.press Resist! Brazil, Journalism, Supreme Court

In a crucial victory for press freedom in Brazil, Minister Gilmar Mendes, a member of Brazil’s Supreme Court, has barred the Bolsonaro administration and Justice Minister Sergio Moro from investigating The Intercept Brasil and journalist Glenn Greenwald for its reporting on unethical and potentially illegal conduct involving Moro. Mendes, in a sweeping decision, wrote that any attempt to investigate journalists for their reporting would “constitute an unambiguous act of censorship” and would violate Brazil’s constitution.

Brazilians Protest Bolsonaro’s Threats Against Glenn Greenwald

August 1, 2019 Staff, Telesurenglish.net Resist! Brazil, Journalism, Protests, Repression

Brazilian journalists, artists, politicians, and activists came together Tuesday in support of journalist Glenn Greenwald who is being threatened by the government of far-right President Jair Bolsonaro. Bolsonaro commented that United States journalist Glenn Greenwald "may be imprisoned" for publishing information in The Intercept Brazil that incriminates the nation’s Justice Minister Sergio Moro. The protest was held at the Brazilian Press Association in Rio de Janeiro where Greenwald and others spoke about press freedom.

Bolsonaro: Greenwald ‘May be Imprisoned’, Journalist Says ‘ No’

July 30, 2019 Staff, Telesurenglish.net Resist! Bolsonaro, Brazil, Journalism, Repression

'Contrary to Bolsonaro's wishes, he is not (yet) a dictator. He has no power to order people arrested,' said Greenwald after the president threatened to incarcerate the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist. Indignation broke out across Brazil after President Jair Bolsonaro commented that United States journalist Glenn Greenwald "may be imprisoned" for publishing information in The Intercept Brazil that incriminates the nation’s Justice Minister Sergio Moro. The comments of the ultra-right president were condemned by opposition politicians and journalist associations that accused him of "serious aggression against freedom of expression."

The Guardian Publishes, Then Censors Jewish Open Letter Defending Smeared Pro-Corbyn Labour MP Chris Williamson

July 19, 2019 Ben Norton, Thegrayzone.com Educate! Censorship, Journalism, Media, United Kingdom (UK)

Britain’s leading newspaper The Guardian has censored an open letter published by prominent Jewish intellectuals, writers, and activists that defended leftist Labour Party Member of Parliament Chris Williamson from “anti-Semitism” smears. The Guardian printed, but then quickly removed the letter without explanation. Meanwhile, the paper has refused to retract a wholly discredited article that maligned journalist and political prisoner Julian Assange which has remained on the website for more than seven months. WikiLeaks says this piece is completely false, and has pledged to sue the newspaper over it.

I Live-Tweeted The AFP’s Every Move As They Raided The ABC’s Sydney Headquarters

June 8, 2019 John Lyons, Abc.net.au Educate! Australia, Journalism, Repression

It was a surreal moment: standing with a group of Australian Federal Police (AFP) officers around a big screen, sifting through 9,214 emails and documents belonging to my colleagues. I felt like I was having surgery but was still conscious. I was seeing and hearing things which I'd rather not be. It felt a complete violation of us both as journalists and citizens — and it had nothing to do with national security. It was at that moment that I felt there was something sick about modern Australia — that an institution as important as the media had come to this.

No Publication Will Be Safe If Assange Is Prosecuted

May 31, 2019 By Bill Blum, Progressive.org Resist! Fascism, First Amendment, Journalism, Julian Assange

Unless and until Assange’s prosecution is dismissed, no publication will be safe from the Administration’s vengeance and overreach. The prosecution of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange under the Espionage Act represents a dangerous turn in President Donald Trump’s war on the First Amendment. Whether you love Assange or loathe him, it is vital to understand the eighteen-count indictment filed against him on May 23 in the context of that wider conflict. In a very real sense, we are all defendants in the case against Assange.

Trump’s Charges Against Assange Are Historic Attack On Press Freedoms. Media And Obama Helped Set The Stage

May 27, 2019 Ben Norton, Thegrayzone.com Educate! Freedom of Press, Journalism, Julian Assange, Media

WikiLeaks publisher and political prisoner Julian Assange is facing 17 charges under the United States Espionage Act — a draconian law that was written during World War I to imprison leftists who spoke out against the mass slaughter. How fitting, then, that 100 years later, this same ruthless statute is being used to muzzle the man who has done more than any other person alive to expose the misdeeds of the US national security state. In its relentless assault on civil liberties, the Donald Trump administration has the dubious distinction of breaking two records at once: Indicting a journalist under the Espionage Act for the first time, and indicting a non-US citizen.

‘War On Journalism’: Snowden Slams US Indictment Against Assange

May 27, 2019 Staff, Informationclearinghouse.info Resist! Edward Snowden, Journalism, Julian Assange, Whistleblowers, Wikileaks

May 25, 2019 "Information Clearing House" - The fate of journalism as we know it is now at stake, after Washington indicted Julian Assange under the Espionage Act, NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden tweeted in reaction to 17 new charges against the WikiLeaks founder. “The Department of Justice just declared war – not on Wikileaks, but on journalism itself,” Snowden tweeted Thursday, adding “this is no longer about Julian Assange: This case will decide the future of media.”

Mexican Journalist Under Government Protection Plan Shot Dead

May 17, 2019 Staff, Aljazeera.com Educate! Journalism, Mexico, Repression

A Mexican journalist enrolled in a federal protection programme has been shot dead, the fifth reporter to be killed this year in one of the most dangerous countries for the press. The blood-soaked body of crime reporter Francisco Romero was found on a pavement outside a nightclub in his hometown of Playa del Carmen along Mexico's Caribbean coast on Thursday, authorities said. Romero ran a Facebook-based news site called "Ocurrio Aqui" (It Happened Here) that covers local politics and crime and had more than 17,000 followers. He also worked for one of the state's leading newspapers, Quintana Roo Hoy.

“I Was The CIA Director – We Lied, We Cheated, We Stole”

April 23, 2019 By Tyler Durden, Zerohedge.com Educate! CIA, Journalism, Julian Assange, Whistleblowers

Former CIA director and now Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has long accused WikiLeaks of being a “non-state hostile intelligence agency”, usually manipulated by Russia. Since Pompeo first made this claim as CIA Director in April 2017, countless major US news sources from NPR to CNN to the Washington Post have uncritically repeated the line, smearing Julian Assange and WikiLeaks as "Russian agents," and more broadly using the narrative to stifle independent journalism and government whistleblowers.

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