Media

How free is the press in your country?

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How free is the press in your country?

A not-so-harmless prank

Suicide of a nurse in England raises questions about toxic media culture ...

Time to tame the paper tigers

The UK government can finally rein in out-of-control media. It must seize the chance ...

What's wrong with this picture?

One of these things is not like the other. Spot the difference ...

RIP Facts

In memoriam to Facts, who served humanity well for over 2,000 years ...

In attack on BBC, critics sideline child abuse victims

The media storm ignores the real scandal: the shocking, systematic sexual abuse of children ...

Crisis at the BBC

One of the world's most trusted news organisations fails – but it can and must recover ...

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Drop 10 pounds in 10 minutes! It's the miracle cure so good, most teenagers think it's 100% natural ...	Mystery of the mosque suicide bomb that wasn't Did a suicide bomber really blow himself and nine others apart in Damascus last week? ...
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Revealed: British minister's secret help for Murdoch Emails show UK culture secretary's cosy relations with News International – and his fear of Avaaz ...	Dump the front page How do we rebuild journalism – and its audience? ...
Spirit Airlines takes off on Secret Service sex scandal Red-faced US Secret Service mocked by cheeky ad for flights to Cartagena, Colombia ...	Silvio: not sitting pretty any more Victory in campaign for freer TV, but it's not game over for Berlusconi ...
The young lady's guide to changing the future Eight-year-old girls in the US want to be leaders. Four years later, why do they just want to be skinny? ...	Murdoch hacking scandal: new twist Son James resigns from BSkyB, but fresh allegations of NewsCorp sabotage pose new threat to family empire ...
Bored of the old news? New: essential briefing for the Avaaz community ...	Turkey's dirty secret Erdogan's government wages quiet war on journalists who won't toe party line ...
British ministers still under Murdoch's thumb Forget phone hacking: the real scandal is that journalists paid off police ...	Big win against Brazil corruption \| Murdoch's headache worsens \| New hope for Maldives Soiled politicians and 'Dirty Digger' forced to clean up their act ...
The peer, the press, the pits and the pressure Climate-change denier Lord Monckton reveals plans to 'capture' Australia's media ...	America: land of the not-quite-as-free-as-you-thought South Africa, El Salvador and Jamaica are just some of the countries where the media is freer ...
Phone-hacking scandal spreads to The Sun British police arrest four senior journalists at the media mogul's flagship newspaper ...	War less lethal to journalists than corruption The real dangers to a free press: governments, drug gangs and other bad actors ...

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