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		<title>The new world record for jailing journalists goes to Iran</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A CJP/IFEX report informs that Iran holds at least 52 journalists behind bars, “a third of all those in jail around the world”.
In most cases, authorities have filed vague antistate charges such as &#8220;propagation against the regime,&#8221; insulting authorities, and disrupting public order. But many cases are shrouded in secrecy, without even formal charges being [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://vladjecan.com/2010/03/10/the-new-world-record-for-jailing-journalists-goes-to-iran/</link>
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		<title>Facebook users link more to broadcast sites than to newspaper sites</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Editor’s Weblog mentions an interesting report that suggests that people on Facebook prefer to link to broadcast sites, such as YouTube, to newspaper websites like The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal.  Google News, on the other hand, sends more traffic to newspapers.
Last week, The Wall Street Journal received 10.37% of its US [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://vladjecan.com/2010/03/04/facebook-users-link-more-to-broadcast-sites-than-to-newspaper-sites/</link>
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		<title>Afghan government bans live media coverage of attacks</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Afghanistan’s National Directorate of Security said that the ban on live coverage of attacks by domestic and international news organizations is necessary because they offer information to the enemy, Al Jazeera reports.
Al Jazeera quoted a couple of statements made by Hakim Ashir, the head of the Government Media and Information Center, who said:
(1)  Journalists are [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://vladjecan.com/2010/03/03/afghan-government-bans-live-media-coverage-of-attacks/</link>
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		<title>Dispatches by Anna Politkovskaya</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The new book is a collection of writings by Anna Politkovskaya. From The Guardian:
Politkovskaya never relents, never holds back. Her revulsion for the wild men of the Red Army as they rape and kill, for the corrupt warlords who take over in Grozny, for Vladimir Putin and his value-free Russia, for fellow journalists who play [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://vladjecan.com/2010/02/15/dispatches-by-anna-politkovskaya/</link>
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		<title>British Journalist Arrested in Gaza</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A British journalist was arrested by the Hamas police accusing him of “unspecified security offences”. The journalist, identified by the Interior Ministry spokesman Ehab Al-Ghsain as freelance correspondent Paul Martin, is accused of harming the security of the country. The Telegraph reports:
&#8220;We have confessions that the British journalist committed offences against Palestinian law, and that [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://vladjecan.com/2010/02/15/british-journalist-arrested-in-gaza/</link>
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		<title>Book Review: The Occupation &#8211; War and Resistance in Iraq</title>
		<description><![CDATA[
Patrick Cockburn is a journalist and a veteran war correspondent. He began his carrier as a Middle East correspondent for the Financial Times and the Independent in 1979 and he concentrated on Iraq ever since.
In 2003, just weeks before the US invasion of Iraq, Cockburn made his way to the country. Thanks to a book [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://vladjecan.com/2010/02/05/book-review-the-occupation-war-and-resistance-in-iraq/</link>
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		<title>War Reporting &#8211; The Beginning</title>
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The power of the press is indisputable, especially in wartime. It has become general knowledge that the outcome of the Vietnam War was heavily influenced by correspondents who went beyond military issues and reported the tragic reality of a confusing war. War reporting existed in one way or another since the first group of primitive [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://vladjecan.com/2010/02/05/war-reporting-the-beginning/</link>
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		<title>Celebrate, not ignore, media diversity</title>
		<description><![CDATA[There are some people who hold passionately on the idea of a European Union media. A single media with original specifics that is available only within the borders of the EU and which is, of course, completely different from anything else. In their narrow perspective, EU media enforcers (maybe militants) ignore the very differences, cultural [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://vladjecan.com/2010/01/27/celebrate-not-ignore-media-diversity/</link>
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		<title>60 years on a single newspaper</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Hold the Front Page wrote:
Mark Gale had been a journalist on the Haywards Heath-based Mid Sussex Times for no fewer than 60 years.
He loved his job as the paper&#8217;s music and theatre critic so much he continued to work for nothing following his retirement, coming into the office for two days a week.
&#8220;His writing should [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://vladjecan.com/2010/01/19/60-years-on-a-single-newspaper/</link>
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		<title>Should journalists also know how to code a website?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A post by Elizabeth Redman got my attention. She asks: “Will coding become the next indispensable skill [for journalists]?” Or should journalists write not only articles but software as well?
Indeed, it has become imperative for journalists to be comfortable with social networking platforms such as Twitter, Facebook and other. However, coding is not compulsory for [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://vladjecan.com/2010/01/19/should-journalists-also-know-how-to-code-a-website/</link>
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