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International Media Headlines
• The owner of the U.K.’s Daily Mirror and the Daily
Express is slashing 12% of its staff, the BBC reported. Reach, which also owns the Daily Star, OK! Magazine
and regional papers, said some 550 would be cut.
• South Africa’s Naspers is closing five magazines and a number of newspapers,
Reuters reported.
• The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ),
the International
Center for Journalists
(ICFJ) and Reporters Without Borders (RSF) have launched the
#HoldTheLine campaign in support of Filipino-American journalist Maria Ressa. Ressa is known for covering Southeast Asia for
CNN and founding the Philippines
news website Rappler. On June 15, she was convicted of “cyber-libel” with
former Rappler colleague Reynaldo Santos Jr. They face up to six years in
prison. The conviction involves a story from 2012, before the law was enacted.
• Google has a free training program for small-to-medium sized news
publishers that’s available in Europe and will
be extended elsewhere in the near future, IANS reports.
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