The work of late journalist and author Ed Moloney work showed the power people's stories can have Ed Moloney, who died this week at the age of 77, was one of the most significant authors on the Troubles. Although we now live in a time when books like Say Nothing are international bestsellers and are adapted for television, Moloney's pioneering research of paramilitaries took place in a very different political atmosphere.
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One day in the future, I hope they gather all the lawyers employed by the two Trump administrations and administer that Scientology test where you hold the two metal things while someone sizes you up for a donation. This is because administering a bar exam to the endless parade of fools and dolts marching out of the Department of Justice in order to do battle with the Constitution, the rule of law, English syntax, and common sense would be like teaching opera to a goat.
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Mr Moloney passed away in New York City on Friday, where he had been living and working, after a brief illness. He was 77. The award-winning journalist, author and film-maker was best known for his coverage of the Troubles, and the activities of the Provisional IRA. He was the director of Boston College's Belfast Project, which collected oral interviews with republican and loyalist militants who had been active during the Troubles.
Dozens of reporters with the Pentagon Press Association turned in their government-issued press badges and left the building Wednesday rather than agree to the rules. "The Trump administration has made the suppression of speech that it doesn't like a governing principle since it took office," says David Schulz, who advised the Pentagon Press Association on their response. He warns the "desire of the Pentagon officials to control what is said about them" is "alarming" and signals a major rupture in U.S. press freedoms.
The book would go on to allege that senior aides concealed signs of President Biden's deterioration during his reelection bid a claim that angered loyalists and electrified critics on both ends of the political spectrum. He and co-author Axios's Alex Thompson approached the project with urgency and discipline. Every meal was a source meal, Tapper said. We interviewed more than 200 people It was just nuts. Their deadline was brutal a first draft by January and publication by spring.
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Maybe the policy should look like the White House or other military installations where you have to wear a badge that identifies that you're press, or you can't just roam anywhere you want. It used to be, Mr. President, the press could go anywhere, pretty much anywhere in the Pentagon, the most classified area in the world.
News organizations including The New York Times, The Associated Press and the conservative Newsmax television network said Monday they will not sign a Defense Department document about its new press rules, making it likely the Trump administration will evict their reporters from the Pentagon. Those outlets say the policy threatens to punish them for routine news gathering protected by the First Amendment.
A previous passenger had abandoned a day-old copy of the Miami Herald between the evacuation-procedure card and the air-sickness bag. As I idly flipped through it, I noticed a story about a local nurseryman named John Laroche and three Seminole men who had been arrested for stealing rare orchids from a Florida swamp. It was a sliver of a story, but I was intrigued by it, by seeing the words "swamp" and "orchids" and "Seminoles" and "plant cloning" and "criminal" together in one place.
Rare indeed is the headline-and-dek combo worth noticing, or caring about. In many publications these aren't even written by the same person who wrote the actual blog; at any rate they're many hundreds or thousands of words shorter than the blog itself. Caring about the headline and dek is to some extent like close-reading the movie poster inside the multiplex. Probably it's better to just go inside the theater and watch the movie.
Then, Rick Edmonds answered it, cutting through spin, jargon and numbers with vivid detail. "The company is so new that the signatures were drying yesterday morning on legal papers defining its financial structure, even as the deal to buy the Bulletin, which will be its first newspaper holding, was announced." It's an approach journalists and media watchers are used to from the Poynter Institute's longtime media business analyst. That story, though, ran in The Philadelphia Inquirer in April 1980.
He made it clear that media organizations are the barrier to protect the world from the disinformation that can do so much harm. And he championed the profession. In a speech to media executives at the 39th Conference of the MINDS International Association, Leo said, "Doing the work of a journalist can never be considered a crime, but it is a right that must be protected."
When President Donald Trump delivered a barrage of false statements about climate change during his September 23 speech to the UN General Assembly, he made headlines around the world. Mocking climate change as a "con job" promoted by "stupid people," Trump's remarks also illustrated a dilemma facing journalism's traditional approach to covering politics, where not appearing to take sides has long been a cardinal rule. As more and more political leaders and movements mirror Trump's habit of making factually inaccurate claims, a new report from the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism offers a fresh way to think about this dilemma, along with a host of practical tools for tackling it.
Malak A Tantesh is a journalist in Gaza. On 16 September, the day Israel began its full-scale ground offensive Gaza City, she was among those trying to flee the city. As she hurriedly packed up for her 11th displacement in the last 18 months, she recorded voice notes. We all say that we don't want to leave, but we deeply know that we have no other choice, she says.
From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or producing our latest documentary, 'The A Word', which shines a light on the American women fighting for reproductive rights, we know how important it is to parse out the facts from the messaging. At such a critical moment in US history, we need reporters on the ground.
Though he has a work permit and two of his children are American citizens, he has operated under the administrative closure of deportation orders for much of that time. Immigration officials reopened the deportation case after his arrest on petty charges that were almost immediately dismissed while livestreaming No Kings Day protests in June. His imprisonment is among the longest for any reporter arrested in connection with their work as a journalist in United States history.
The child welfare system is arguably one of the most difficult systems to navigate. The agencies that comprise the system wield enormous responsibility to ensure children's safety. But they often punish struggling families by removing their children rather than providing services to support them. And while some children may benefit from being in a state's custody, many more face mistreatment within a system that has lasting effects on education, mental health and more.
