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Behind the News
Israeli airstrikes hit Gazan media facilities
November 19, 2012 11:00 AMOn Sunday morning, Israel’s warplanes attacked two media centers as part of its current military offensive against Gaza. The first of the two strikes hit a building where I worked for three months in 2010, and where my former colleagues... Continue reading
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Behind the News
Covering Occupy and the Tea Party
October 2, 2012 02:50 PMWith the nation’s political media gripped by electoral fever in the run up to the presidential election, perhaps now is a good moment to pause and note that two of the most important forces that have shaped American political discourse... Continue reading
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Behind the News
Egyptian journos wary of recent government actions
August 14, 2012 06:50 AMEgyptian journalists are outraged over a pair of government decisions last week which they say curb media freedom and independence. In the first of the two moves, the upper house of Egypt’s parliament, under the control of the Muslim... Continue reading
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Behind the News
Covering the Sinai Peninsula
August 10, 2012 06:50 AMArmed assailants killed 16 Egyptian soldiers waiting to break the day’s Ramadan fast in the Sinai Peninsula on Sunday. The unidentified attackers proceeded to steal two military vehicles, which they used to breach the Israeli border before being thwarted by... Continue reading
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Behind the News
The Muslim Brotherhood’s post-uprising TV station
July 25, 2012 06:50 AMCAIRO, EGYPT — The Muslim Brotherhood’s year-old television station, Misr25, broadcasts from a building in Egypt’s Media Production City, a vast complex of buildings built under former president Hosni Mubarak in the desert west of Cairo, well beyond the pyramids.... Continue reading
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Behind the News
In Egypt, new newspapers and old problems
July 18, 2012 06:50 AMCAIRO, EGYPT — Egyptian newsstands today offer a lively range of options, including three government-owned papers, papers affiliated with political parties, and several privately-owned papers, some of which sprung up since the 2011 uprising that toppled President Hosni Mubarak. Since... Continue reading
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Behind the News
Fewer journo arrests at latest OWS push
May 2, 2012 03:18 PMJournalists covering the May 1 Occupy demonstrations across the country encountered some police obstruction, including a few arrests, and an uptick in cases of demonstrators confronting journalists. According to Josh Stearns, of the advocacy organization Free Press, who has been... Continue reading
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