Mediagazer: Reform interrupted — Egypt's most prominent state-run newspaper … (Columbia Journalism Review)

9:00 PM ET, November 3, 2013

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Columbia Journalism Review:

Reform interrupted — Egypt's most prominent state-run newspaper launched a website to shake up the status quo. Then came a revolution. And a coup. What is the future for Al Bawaba? — By ]: failed to open stream: No such file or directory in /usr/home/posting/public_html/feature/ reform_interrupted.php on line 234

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Concurring Opinions:

On the NSA and Media Bias: An Extended Analysis — By Albert Wong and Valerie Belair-Gagnon, Information Society Project at Yale Law School — In a recent article in the Columbia Journalism Review, we reported that major US newspapers exhibited a net pro-surveillance bias in their “post-Edward Snowden” coverage of the NSA.

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Louise Watt / Associated Press:

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Edward Wyatt / New York Times:

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