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  1. April 22, 2008 09:00 AM

    Choke Hold

    How Jordan tames its press

    By Kristen Gillespie Demilio

    About halfway through a press conference in Amman last July convened to announce the launch of ATV, Jordan’s first privately owned satellite television station, an assistant passed the station’s head, Mohannad Khatib, a note. “They took our signal off the air,” it read.

    After two years spent negotiating the licenses, working around government interference, securing millions...

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  2. October 11, 2007 09:00 AM

    Private Matters

    A new push to rein in the tabloids has British reporters on edge

    By Mariah Blake

    One of the biggest scandals to engulf the British press since princess Diana’s death began with a trivial bit of gossip about her eldest son. In late 2005, Rupert Murdoch’s tabloid News of the World ran a story about Prince William’s plans to meet with Tom Bradby, a well-known television reporter and trusted confidant of the prince’s. Bradby was...

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  3. June 12, 2007 08:30 AM

    Style Over Substance

    Despite India’s media boom, its journalism is shrinking.

    By Basharat Peer

    Before moving to New York in August 2006, I met with fellow journalists and writers in New Delhi. The conversations always veered to an irritatingly familiar topic: Where is the space in Indian journalism for serious, detailed reportage? It is a bizarre conversation in light of the tremendous expansion of media in India. The economic liberalization in the early...

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