Saturday, July 18, 2020

International Media Headlines



• The owner of the U.K.’s Daily Mirror and the Daily Express is slashing 12% of its staff, the BBC reportedReach, 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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