Mediagazer: Cameron warns UK press: sign up to royal charter or else (Nicholas Watt/Guardian)

4:00 PM ET, December 26, 2013

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Nicholas Watt / Guardian:

Cameron warns UK press: sign up to royal charter or else — PM says UK press risks ‘hideous statutory regulation’ in future if it declines to seek recognition under terms of new royal charter — David Cameron has warned the press that it runs the risk of facing “hideous statutory regulation” …

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Mariia Shamota / Kyiv Post:

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Steven Aftergood / Secrecy News:

Orgs Ask DNI to Preserve Access to World News Connection — More than a dozen professional societies and public interest groups wrote to the Director of National Intelligence last week to ask him to preserve public access to foreign news reports gathered, translated and published …

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