A THIRD of the Thai schoolboys trapped in a flooded cave in northern Thailand were rescued on Sunday as audiences around the world watched on anxiously. At least 13 foreign divers and five members of Thailand’s elite navy SEAL unit launched a daring and dangerous mission to save the boys …
A protracted contract dispute suggests that being owned by a tech billionaire may have serious drawbacks for workers. Since Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos purchased The Washington Post in 2013, the newspaper has been one of the great—and few—success stories in media, legacy or otherwise. The size of the paper’s staff has grown to …
Amid the ongoing exodus, staffers are happy to let the president act as his own top spokesman. President Donald Trump has always been happy to act as his own chief spokesman, and amid the ongoing shakeup of the White House communications office, staffers seem increasingly happy to let him. Only …
Cable news covered Roseanne for over 10 hours. They covered Hurricane Maria’s death toll in Puerto Rico for just over 30 minutes. On Tuesday, Harvard researchers published a study estimating that approximately 5,000 deaths can be linked to Hurricane Maria in Puerto Rico. The same day, ABC canceled Roseanne Barr’s …
China’s influence operations in Australia are growing and gaining more attention. A migrant agent who advertises in an independent Chinese-language newspaper had officers from the country’s security agency camp in his Beijing office for two weeks,harassing him to end his advertising, which he did. Other advertisers in Australia have been …
“So in 2016 and 2017, CNN was worried about ‘fake news’ and was warning people about it,” the Sinclair video says. “That concern about biased and fake news sounds a lot like what Sinclair’s anchors talked about.” It concludes, “Calling out Sinclair for calling out ‘Fake News’ is dishonest and …
FILE – In this Feb. 1, 2018, file photo, Reuters journalist Kyaw Soe Oo, centre, is welcomed by his wife and daughter upon arrival at the court for their trial on the outskirts of Yangon, Myanmar. BANGKOK (AP) — When five Myanmar journalists were sentenced to decadelong prison terms for …
CAMBODIA’S Prime Minister has praised US President Donald Trump’s so-called Fake News Awards, during a government-hosted dinner for correspondents on Sunday. The PM – who has ruled for more than 33 years and recently ordered the dissolution of Cambodia’s primary opposition party – regularly accuses independent media outlets of spreading …
As has been endlessly reported, Rupert Murdoch’s sale of Twenty-first Century Fox’s mostly entertainment assets to Disney merits major news. It reveals Fox’s lack of size, or “scale,” in a business increasingly dominated by corporate behemoths. It confirms Disney’s lust to compete with Netflix. But there is something else: after years …
Pope Francis, in speaking to a group of journalists Saturday, addressed the importance of a free and responsible press while also warning against falling “prey to the sins of communication.” He was speaking to members of the Italian Periodical Press Union and the Italian Federation of Catholic Weeklies and said …
FILE – In a Tuesday, Dec. 5, 2017 file photo, Steve Bannon, left, introduces U.S. senatorial candidate Roy Moore, right, during a campaign rally, in Fairhope, Ala. MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) — Republican U.S. Senate candidate Roy Moore has been a rare sight on the traditional campaign trail in the days …
In signalling that he may sell some of 21st Century Fox, is Murdoch rolling over or regrouping? THE only media mogul still bestriding his industry in old-fashioned style is used to being a predator rather than prey, a builder of empires, not a dismantler of them. So Rupert Murdoch’s reported …