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1. Behind the News

   Israeli airstrikes hit Gazan media facilities

   November 19, 2012 11:00 AM

   On 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

2. Behind the News

   Covering Occupy and the Tea Party

   October 2, 2012 02:50 PM

   With 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

3. Behind the News

   Egyptian journos wary of recent government actions

   August 14, 2012 06:50 AM

   Egyptian 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

4. Behind the News

   Covering the Sinai Peninsula

   August 10, 2012 06:50 AM

   Armed 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

5. Behind the News

   The Muslim Brotherhood’s post-uprising TV station

   July 25, 2012 06:50 AM

   CAIRO, 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

6. Behind the News

   In Egypt, new newspapers and old problems

   July 18, 2012 06:50 AM

   CAIRO, 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

7. Behind the News

   Fewer journo arrests at latest OWS push

   May 2, 2012 03:18 PM

   Journalists 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