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CEO promises ‘not to screw it up’ after deal
Yahoo! buys up Tumblr blogging platform for $1.1bn
Tumblr boasts more than 108m blogs
New York – Arabstoday
Yahoo! confirmed on Monday it would acquire blogging platform Tumblr for $1.1bn (£725m), saying the two companies "share a vision to make the Internet the ultimate creative canvas." The two firms Read more...Jordi Evole uncovers corruption amid public rage
Unlikely TV host captures Spain’s recession-racked zeitgeist
Viewers like Evole’s man-in-the-street style
Madrid – Arabstoday
With his high-pitched voice, square spectacles and stubbly chin, Jordi Evole is not your typical dashing television presenter. That doesn't stop three million Spaniards switching on to watch Read more...New delegation looks to promote press ‘renaissance’
Brotherhood aims to patch things up with Egyptian media
Sit-ins outside Cairo’s Maspero building
London - Tom Rollins
Muslim Brotherhood officials are attempting to patch up differences with media institutions in Egypt, party officials have claimed. According to Brotherhood spokesman Mahmoud Ghozlan, a delegation of media Read more...Murdoch-owned channel snubbed for populism
Opinion divided over National Geographic TV direction
Producers defend ‘contemporary anthropology’
Washington - Arabstoday
Lots of people find a home on the National Geographic Channel, from tuna fishermen to Mormons with more than one wife and "preppers" stocking up their bunkers for the end of the world. Read more...The Last Of The Unjust premieres at Cannes festival
New documentary interrogates Jewish elders in Holocaust
Controversial Theresienstadt elder Benjamin Murmelstein
Cannes - Arabstoday
When your enemy is sworn to exterminate every one of you, can you -- should you -- try to cut a deal with him to at least save some lives knowing that others are doomed? Read more...
Video
Life Experience
A correspondent from Agence France-Presse (AFP) who was kidnapped by an armed group in Benghazi, Libya on Monday, has been freed.
Ibrahim Hedeya was visiting the city with his brother when he was taken. Speaking to Read More...
Press
Reporters Without Borders is appalled by raids, on Monday (May 20), by police on two Kampala-based newspapers, the forced closure of their printing presses and the closure of two radio stations.
The Read More...
Amman-based group defends rights
Tough times for press freedom
Amman – Iman Abu Kaoud
Press advocacy groups have come together to launch the Arab Coalition to Defend Media Freedoms in Amman, a new organisation aimed at defending press freedom and human rights across the Read More...Interviews
Mervat Mohsen, news anchor at Nile International television channel, has defended Egypt’s media but says the industry is clearly beginning to suffer.
“Egyptian media right now is somewhere between excitement and suffocation,” she said. “It’s all Read More...
Also in the News
Turkish authorities should reverse on appeal the jail term handed down this week to a Turkish Armenian author and blogger who was convicted of insulting the Prophet Muhammad, the Committee to Protect Journalists said today.
On Read more...
Turkey's European Union Ministry (EU) will provide 9 million euros in grant funds to media and civil society organizations as part of the Turkey-EU joint "Civil Society Dialogue III Grant Scheme."
EU Minister Egemen Bagis Read more...
Ugandan police surrounded the Kampala offices of two private newspapers for seven hours on Monday, barring access to the premises, disabling printing presses, and effectively halting publication indefinitely, according to news reports. The police said Read more...
Satellite Channels
Reporters Without Borders is shocked by a government decree, called Decision 20/2011/QD-TTG, which has prevented local retransmission of four categories of foreign TV channels since 15 May by requiring them to pay for simultaneous Read more...
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