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Associated Press

Journalists Need to Tool Up

Annie Machon | Posted 21.05.2013 | UK
Read More: Journalists, Civil Liberties, Law, Whistleblowers, Press Freedom, Intelligence, Associated Press, Media, Wikileaks, Cia, UK Media, UK News
Annie Machon

Last week it emerged that the US Department of Justice monitored the telephones of, gasp, journalists working at Associated Press. Apparently this was done to try to investigate who might have been the source for a story about a foiled terrorist plot in Yemen.

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Tell Me the Full Story - Using Video!

Sue Brooks | Posted 08.05.2013 | UK Tech
Read More: Associated Press, UK Media, Video, Deloitte, News, Online News, Journalism, Online News Reporting, UK Tech News
Sue Brooks

More than a quarter of people told us that they'd go elsewhere if video wasn't available at their preferred news source. This isn't surprising. Remember how "chimney cam" became compulsive viewing as we waited while the conclave elected a new pontiff? Now imagine it without the chimney. Or the cam.

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Fake AP Tweet: FBI Investigating

The Huffington Post UK | Posted 24.04.2013 | UK
Read More: Ap Twitter Hacked, White House, UK News, Twitter, Dow Jones, Wall Street, Associated Press, Fbi, Ap Twitter, Investigation, Barack Obama, Ap, UK News

The FBI is investigating how hackers managed to send a fake Associated Press tweet announcing an attack on the White House. FBI spokeswoman Jenny S...

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Ted Thornhill

Like! Facebook 'Does Not Make You Depressed'

HuffingtonPost.com | Ted Thornhill | Posted 12.07.2012 | UK Tech
Read More: Depression, UK News, University of Wisconsin, Associated Press, Mark Zuckerberg, Science, UK Tech, Psychology, Facebook, UK Tech News

Last year scientists reported a link between obsessive use of Facebook among teenagers and depression – but this notion has not received a “like...

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Explosion Near UN Mission Chief In Syria

The Huffington Post UK | Ted Thornhill | Posted 20.05.2012 | UK
Read More: Associated Press, Syria Bomb, Syria Uprising, UK News, Bbc News, Bombing, Syria Protests, Syria, Bashar Al-Assad, UK News

Syria was rocked by a large explosion on Sunday just 500 feet from a convoy carrying Major General Robert Mood – the head of the UN Mission there ...

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Christchurch Hit By Two 'Strong' Earthquakes

Huffington Post UK | Lucy Sherriff | Posted 21.02.2012 | UK
Read More: Natural Disasters, UK News, Christchurch Earthquakes, UK World, New Zealand, Christchurch, Associated Press, World News, UK News

Christchurch has been hit by a series of "strong" earthquakes, closing the airport and causing buildings and a shopping centre to be evacuated. Loc...

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Desperate Scousewives, Leveson and Michael Gove: It's Not Been a Good Week Thus Far

theweemo | Posted 29.01.2012 | UK Entertainment
Read More: Associated Press, Desperate Scousewives, Katie Price, Michael Gove, Daily Mail, Liverpool, Leveson Inquiry, UK Entertainment News
theweemo

A large source of guilt, manifesting as a Perpetual Slightly Creepy Feeling is the on-tap access to the Leveson Enquiry; thanks to which, theweemo now knows more news scandalisation than she ever did before, because she never read the tabloids.

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