journalism

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – Much gratitude to all of you who donated to our successful fundraiser this year, in which we sought some extra funds to defend Informed Comment from a trolling copyright lawsuit that is without merit. Your donations helped us secure the services of one of Michigan’s top intellectual property attorneys, who […]

Israel/ Palestine

How Netanyahu corrupted Britain’s oldest Jewish Newspaper with self-serving Propaganda

Middle East Monitor

by Nasim Ahmed Nasimbythedocks ( Middle East Monitor ) – How did Britain’s oldest Jewish newspaper end up publishing a story that Israel’s security forces have raised serious doubts about? That’s the question many are asking with the Jewish Chronicle facing intense criticism over what is seen as a glaring example of journalistic malpractice. The […]

Israel/ Palestine

Covering Gaza: The deadliest War for Journalists

Global Voices

Written byWalid El Houri ( Globalvoices.org ) – On July 31, Al Jazeera journalists Ismail al-Ghoul and Rami al-Rifi were killed by Israel in the Shati refugee camp in the north of Gaza while reporting on the assassination of Hamas political bureau chief Ismail Haniyya in Iran. The Israeli army admitted to killing al-Ghoul and […]

Israel/ Palestine

Makes me feel Sad for the Rest: Why Palestinian Journalists in Gaza are the Real Journalists

Ramzy Baroud

( Middle East Monitor ) – By granting its 2024 World Press Freedom Prize to Palestinian journalists covering the Israeli war on Gaza, UNESCO has acknowledged a historic truth. Even if the decision to name Gaza’s journalists as laureates of its prestigious award was partly motivated by the courage of these journalists, the truth is […]

Climate Crisis

Who will Tell the Story of Regional Climate Disasters when the News Desert Swallows all Local Newspapers?

Tomdispatch

By Jane Braxton Little ( Tomdispatch.com When wildfires began erupting in the Texas Panhandle in February, Laurie Ezzell Brown, the editor and publisher of the Canadian Record, was in Houston on a panel discussing ways in which losing local newspapers represents a danger to democracy. Running the once-a-week Record from the Panhandle town of Canadian, […]

censorship

Israel Bans Al Jazeera Journalists, Network, Joining Syria and Iran as Repressive Regime

Juan Cole

Ann Arbor (Informed Comment) – The Committee to Protect Journalists on Sunday condemned the Israeli cabinet’s decision to ban the Al Jazeera news network in Israel. The network’s office was closed and its equipment was confiscated. Israeli cable channels were forced to delete Al Jazeera from their offerings, and even its website has been blocked […]

censorship

Israeli Violations against Journalists in Palestinian West Bank Multiply

Global Voices

Written by Natacha Danon More than 100 journalists in Gaza have been killed by Israel since it launched its deadly war on the strip, following Hamas’s incursion into Israeli soil on October 7, 2023. Reporters Without Borders has filed multiple complaints with the International Criminal Court to investigate “intentional homicides” of several Gazan journalists. But […]

censorship

How the Israeli Government manages to censor the Journalists covering the War on Gaza

The Conversation

By Colleen Murrell, Dublin City University | – (The Conversation) – Accusations about Israeli censorship of the media went mainstream in the US recently when the New York Times published an opinion piece headlined: The Israeli Censorship Regime is Growing. That Needs to Stop.. In the piece Jodie Ginsberg, the chief executive of the Committee […]