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Published in: HomeWikiLeaks and democracy
The Robin Hoods of the net challenge the culture of secrecy that has major states in its grip - and thus perform a...
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Published in: HomeIf Assange is a spy, then so am I
The job and duty of journalists is to expose lies and their consequences. Julian Assange has shown that one does not...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKIs it time for Murdoch's empire to be reined in?: A fascinating debate on News Corp's bid to take over BSkyB
Is this the moment to halt the expansion of Richard Murdoch's media empire in the UK? An OurKingdom post, which...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKTake Two Steps Back: A Society Gets the Journalism it Deserves
We should not mourn the passing of the newspaper or the decline of public service broadcasting, but ask instead what...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKStudent Power: 1968... 2010
Is a student movement starting in England in opposition to the Government's cuts and marketisation of higher...
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Published in: HomeEgyptian blogs: reporting the news unfit to print
The Egyptian blogosphere has gained real influence in the political process
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Published in: HomeAuthentic journalism: weapon of the people
The path out of the crises wrought by commercial journalism opens when citizens steal back the mission that big...
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Published in: openDemocracyUKCan Murdoch be stopped? Britain examines its stable door
As with Italy, it is not just the failure to maintain public standards that damages the nation. A foreign media...
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Published in: HomeRed lenses on a rainbow of revolutions
Given continued strikes in Iran and the freeing of Aung San Suu Kyi in Burma, neither the Burmese nor Iranian...
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Published in: HomeThe struggle after people power wins
With peaceful but forceful civic mobilization in 2004, Ukrainians managed to reverse a rigged presidential election....
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Published in: Shine A LightClare wins again! 'Investigative Comment' and the future of journalism on the web
The principles behind Clare Sambrook's double prize winning reports and why openDemocracy is happy to publish them.
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Published in: openDemocracyUKThe Media, the crisis, and the crisis in media
The financial crisis and a series of aggressive wars have demonstrated beyond doubt how prevailing forms of media...
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Published in: Home20, 2000 and 2: the three shadows of Facebook
The eternal campus of the global middle class; the solution to the injunction to love ones fellow; a riskless...
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Published in: HomeA free media: Tasneem Khalil’s project
The work of a Bangladeshi journalist offers a different perspective on some of the professional and ethical dilemmas...
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Published in: HomeDissing Assange
Why does TechCrunch decide to join the chorus of insinuations about the sexual habits of Wikileaks' Julian Assange?
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Published in: openDemocracyUKThe Heart of the Matter II: the deadly dance of premiers and proprietors
The power of Murdoch over the British police and prime ministers is not a new story but thanks to the New York Times...
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Published in: HomeAustria after Hans Dichand
The death of a powerful media patriarch is also the end of an era in Austrian politics. After Hans Dichand, the...
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Published in: openIndiaKashmir's e-protest
Fahad Shah reports on the rising tide of e-protest in Kashmir.
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Published in: openIndiaThe Assam conflict: a failure of the press
While debate on Assam's future rages in the Assamese media, the issue continues to be ignored by the Indian national press.