PARIS, France (AFP) — Journalists working for the Reuters news agency in France went on strike on Tuesday, six months after more than half the news agency’s French service was laid off. The walkout, backed by “a huge majority” of reporters, was sparked by six people on its photo desk being told by telephone that they were also to be sacked, staff said. They feared the “incomprehensible” wave of cuts would hit the quality of […]
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NATO leaders anger Trump with on camera mockery
by Dave CLARK Agence France Presse WATFORD, United Kingdom (AFP) — The leaders of Britain, Canada, France and the Netherlands were caught on camera at a Buckingham Palace reception mocking US President Donald Trump’s lengthy media appearances at the NATO summit. The footage, shot by the British host’s camera pool on Tuesday evening and spotted and subtitled by Canadian broadcaster CBC, set the tone for the allies’ summit in Watford, just outside London. British Prime […]
French media take copyright fight to Google
by Frédéric POUCHOT Agence France Presse PARIS, France (AFP) — French media firms said Thursday that they would drag Google before the country’s competition regulator over its refusal to compensate them for displaying their content in defiance of a strict new EU copyright law. The APIG press alliance, which groups dozens of national and regional newspapers, said it would also press the French government to take action against the US internet giant. “We are outraged,” […]
China blocks almost a quarter of accredited foreign news sites: watchdog
WUZHEN, China (AFP) — China’s “Great Firewall” system of online censorship blocks domestic access to nearly a quarter of the foreign news organisations accredited to report in the country, a press watchdog said Tuesday. Beijing bars its citizens from accessing the publicly available websites of 23 percent of 215 international news organisations that have journalists based in China, the Foreign Correspondents’ Club of China (FCCC) said in a statement. Thirty-one percent of news organisations […]
Presidential task force on media security condemns killing of columnist in Pampanga
(Eagle News)–The Presidential Task Force on Media Security on Monday, Oct. 21, condemned the killing of a columnist in Arayat, Pampanga. The PTFoMS said it was also “deeply saddened” by the killing of Jupiter Gonzales of Remate, who was ambushed while driving a Nissan Almera, with plate number AQA 8441, bound for Olongapo-Gapan road at Barangay Cacutud at 10:30 p.m. The vehicle crashed in a plant box beside the road. Gonzales was rushed by a […]
Andanar orders probe into shooting of broadcaster in Tagum
(Eagle News)–Communications Secretary Martin Andanar has ordered a probe into the shooting of broadcaster and public information officer Pat Lucero Pacquiao in Davao del Norte. In a statement, Andanar also condemned the ambush, and wished for the swift recovery of Pacquiao who was shot in the shoulder when attacked in front of his house on Oct. 11. “(The Philippine Communications Operations Office) condemns any act that threatens the well-being of media practitioners simply for doing […]
Facebook exempts political speech from fact-checking
SAN FRANCISCO, United States (AFP) — Facebook will not fact-check the statements politicians post to the site, the social network announced Tuesday ahead of the US 2020 elections, even as it works to discredit false information meant to manipulate public opinion. While the social network relies on third-party fact-checkers, including news organizations such as AFP, to help it discredit viral misinformation, it will stop short of wading into the veracity of political claims. “We don’t […]
Internet a lifeline for Venezuela’s embattled independent media
by Andrea Tosta with Guillaume Decamme in Maracaibo CARACAS, Venezuela (AFP) — Starved of advertising revenue and battling a stranglehold on the newspaper industry by the government, Venezuela’s independent media have been decimated by the country’s years-long crisis — with many migrating online to survive. “It was a course we couldn’t get away from,” Jorge Makriniotis, manager at the 75-year-old El Nacional, told AFP. The newspaper ran its last physical edition — which had […]
Trump: Migrant detention centers to open to media
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — US President Donald Trump on Sunday said migrant detention centers that have come under criticism for overcrowding and poor conditions will be opened to visits by journalists. “I’m going to start showing some of these detention centers to the press. I want the press to go in and see them,” Trump told reporters in Morristown, New Jersey. “We’re going to have some of the press go in because they’re crowded, […]
Media group study finds Google makes billions from news
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — Google took in some $4.7 billion in revenue in 2018 from “crawling and scraping” news websites without paying publishers, according to an industry-sponsored study released Monday which was disputed by the tech giant and media analysts. The study by the News Media Alliance underscores industry arguments about Google and other online giants harming traditional news organizations by dominating the internet news ecosystem and ad revenues generated through it. According […]
Merkel party’s battle with YouTubers escalates
by Ryland JAMES BERLIN, Germany (AFP) — German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s favored successor was swept into a new storm Tuesday, with her apparent call for limits to free speech around elections stoking further anger rather than putting down a raging youth-led YouTube revolt. Annegret Kramp-Karrenbauer’s call for “rules” for online media around election-time came after her Christian Democratic Union (CDU) and its center-left coalition partner SPD suffered their worst scores in Sunday’s European parliamentary vote. […]
US charges Julian Assange with violating Espionage Act
by Paul HANDLEY WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — The Justice Department on Thursday charged WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange with violating the US Espionage Act by publishing military and diplomatic files in 2010, rejecting his claim that he is a journalist. The department unveiled 17 new charges against Assange, accusing him of directing and abetting intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning in stealing secret US files, and also recklessly exposing confidential sources in the Middle East and China […]
