Review of UK and world papers and coverage of UK and global journalism stories for Journalism History for Wednesday 11th October 2023
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The Chartered Institute of Journalists remembers all the professional journalists and media workers murdered and killed while doing their work this year in all parts of the world and remember the immense sacrifice of those who gave their lives to the profession in the past. We send our condolences to their families, friends and professional colleagues.
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Mail Online reports: “Academics at Britain’s top universities are accused of legitimising Hamas attacks as Birkbeck University of London professor claims gunning down of Israelis at music festival was ‘consequence’ for ‘partying on stolen land.'” See: https://twitter.com/CIoJournalist/status/1711837568218657003
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Arab News and AFP reports: ‘China deports Australian journalist after serving sentence. Australian journalist Cheng Lei reunited with her two young children in Melbourne.’ See: https://twitter.com/CIoJournalist/status/1712190548964999539
The Chartered Institute of Journalists is delighted to learn today that the Chinese authorities have released Australian broadcaster Cheng Lei from detention after 1,154 days since 13th August 2020. We have marked and protested her plight daily on our social media channels. We are so pleased she can rejoin her family in Australia after a terrible ordeal. See: https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/oct/11/cheng-lei-jail-released-australian-journalist-china-albanese-returned-home
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CIoJ LinkedIn news stories, Hold The Front Page news stories, Guardian media news stories, Press Gazette news stories, Arab News media stories and other stories from miscellaneous sources
Mail Online reports: "Academics at Britain's top universities are accused of legitimising Hamas attacks as Birkbeck University of London professor claims gunning down of Israelis at music festival was 'consequence' for 'partying on stolen land.'" See: https://t.co/azbSEXiUDv
— CIoJ (@CIoJournalist) October 10, 2023
Sarah Vine writes for Mail Online: 'The women of Israel are all our mothers and daughters. If we don't stand up to extremists, the horrors happening there can happen here.' See: https://t.co/znhny5JQzS
— CIoJ (@CIoJournalist) October 10, 2023
Sky News Press Preview: Wednesday's papers. 10 Oct 2023 #presspreview
— CIoJ (@CIoJournalist) October 10, 2023
Anna Botting takes a first look at Wednesday's front pages with columnist and broadcaster Steve Richards – and the former Conservative special adviser Salma Shah. See: https://t.co/u3FwCXnWGz
Guardian reports: "EU warns Elon Musk over ‘disinformation’ on X about Hamas attack. Failing to moderate content such as fake news could incur fine of 6% of X revenues or EU blackout under new laws." See: https://t.co/roUef8eWAr
— CIoJ (@CIoJournalist) October 10, 2023
Guardian reports: "Holly Willoughby to quit This Morning ‘for me and my family.’ The presenter did not reference alleged plot to kidnap her in announcement of her exit from the show after 14 years." See: https://t.co/lR3QtMXEeI
— CIoJ (@CIoJournalist) October 10, 2023
Guardian reports: "Washington Post to cut 240 jobs after ‘overly optimistic’ projections. Newspaper tells staff ‘we need to adjust our cost structure’ and will offer voluntary buyouts this week to reduce headcount." See: https://t.co/b5zEuqyhoo
— CIoJ (@CIoJournalist) October 10, 2023
Guardian reports: "Sports reporter in Philadelphia loses job over pro-Palestinian comments. Jackson Frank was let go by https://t.co/7yJmnhvPsU after he responded ‘Solidarity with Palestine’ to a 76ers tweet condemning Hamas." See: https://t.co/gzcbAnZhiN
— CIoJ (@CIoJournalist) October 10, 2023
Guardian reports: 'Foodie funnies: James Acaster and Ed Gamble’s podcast Off Menu goes on the road.' See: https://t.co/Kl7mwQVm3k
— CIoJ (@CIoJournalist) October 10, 2023
Mail Online reports: "Britain's largest Jewish community body slams BBC's refusal to call Hamas a terrorist group 'little short of obscene.'" See: https://t.co/zLOJqfmCBZ
— CIoJ (@CIoJournalist) October 10, 2023
Gideon Falter writes for the Jewish Chronicle: 'Roger Waters is among the most vocal and prominent demonisers of the Jewish state.' See: https://t.co/0b3M66eVC2
— CIoJ (@CIoJournalist) October 10, 2023
Press Gazette reports: 'Big-name sports journalists facing cutbacks at Mail on Sunday.' See: https://t.co/6uElg0bPjC
— CIoJ (@CIoJournalist) October 11, 2023
Press Gazette and PA Media report: 'Prince Harry claims against The Sun won’t be heard until 2025. The cases of more than 30 people will be heard in January 2024.' See: https://t.co/kD4k5IAyNp
— CIoJ (@CIoJournalist) October 11, 2023
Press Gazette reports: "Guardian ‘refuses’ to publish Steve Bell cartoon of Netanyahu. It is getting pretty nigh impossible to draw this subject for The Guardian now', says Bell." See: https://t.co/6SEoExpnzo
— CIoJ (@CIoJournalist) October 11, 2023
David Patrikarakos writes for Mail Online: 'How Hamas will exploit internet conspiracy theorists who deny Kfar Aza massacre as part of its ISIS-style crusade to destroy Israel and set the world ablaze.' See: https://t.co/Nhhgxsf5Kc
— CIoJ (@CIoJournalist) October 11, 2023
Brendan O'Neill writes for Spiked Online: 'Why is Owen Jones mansplaining the Middle East to a Jew? The clash between Jones and Margaret Hodge revealed just how poisonous identity politics has become.' See: https://t.co/OsFxR2Q8yz
— CIoJ (@CIoJournalist) October 11, 2023
Mail Online reports: "Left wing journalist Rivkah Brown apologises and deletes tweet celebrating Hamas attack on Israel saying she wants to 'move forward differently.'" See: https://t.co/EAQDKXoKNB
— CIoJ (@CIoJournalist) October 11, 2023
Arab News and AFP reports: 'China deports Australian journalist after serving sentence. Australian journalist Cheng Lei reunited with her two young children in Melbourne.' See: https://t.co/MTkZ3xs2Dc
— CIoJ (@CIoJournalist) October 11, 2023
The CIoJ calls on Russia to immediately release Wall Street Journal reporter Evan Gershkovich. His detention is wholly unjustifiable and political state hostage-taking. He has been deprived of his liberty for 196 days since 29th March 2023 #FreeEvan
The Institute calls on Belarus to release 35 journalists detained including Maryna Zolatava and Liudmila Chekina each suffering 12 year jail terms. Belarus is currently ranked 157th out of 180 countries in the World Press Freedom Index. See: https://rsf.org/en/belarus-supreme-court-upholds-journalists-12-year-jail-terms
The CIoJ remains concerned about the trials and sentencing of Belarus journalist Roman Protasevich and his friend Sofia Sapega following their abduction from a diverted Ryanair flight 23rd May 2021 which is now 871 days ago. See: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-65670820
The CIoJ calls on all governments and states unjustly detaining journalists for doing their professional work to respect freedom of expression, the right to liberty and free them immediately. See: https://rsf.org/en/new-record-number-journalists-jailed-worldwide
North American Newspapers for Wednesday 11th October 2023
UK Channel 4 news coverage of day four of Israel's war with Hamas. "Children 'mercilessly' killed by Hamas in Israel massacre – as Gaza is pummelled." See: https://t.co/n8qQgC9vTY
— CIoJ (@CIoJournalist) October 10, 2023
Spiked Online reports: "‘When Hamas attacked Israel, it was a beautiful day.’ What reporter Thomas Osborne heard from last night’s anti-Israel protest in London." See: https://t.co/cDgkuKv1xg
— CIoJ (@CIoJournalist) October 10, 2023
Express reports: 'BBC row erupts as John Simpson fires back after Jon Sopel savages Hamas coverage. The BBC has come under fire over guidelines telling staff not to refer to Hamas as terrorists.' See: https://t.co/zZS1Z574Lt
— CIoJ (@CIoJournalist) October 11, 2023
CAMERA (Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting and Analysis) reports: 'Reuters Partially Amends Flawed Reporting on Israeli Airstrikes.' See: https://t.co/N5rVuAuTyf
— CIoJ (@CIoJournalist) October 11, 2023
David Litman writes for CAMERA (Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting and Analysis) 'As Israelis are Slaughtered, MSNBC Says Palestinians in Chicago Also In “Pain.”' See: https://t.co/EIyk9Pwg2i
— CIoJ (@CIoJournalist) October 11, 2023
Telegraph reports (behind paywall) 'How Zuckerberg and Musk plunged digital tabloids into crisis.' See: https://t.co/h2VOPspY41
— CIoJ (@CIoJournalist) October 11, 2023
The CIoJ is so pleased with the news '‘Tight hugs, teary screams’: Cheng Lei releases first statement after release from detention in China.' https://t.co/WrCZxvO9nX
— CIoJ (@CIoJournalist) October 11, 2023
Guardian reports: 'Social media urged to act on violent content after Hamas attack. UK minister calls urgent meeting as EU criticises X over misleading content such as repurposed historical footage.' See: https://t.co/8r2B9W4f0H
— CIoJ (@CIoJournalist) October 11, 2023
Guardian reports: 'BBC podcast prompts police to look again at case of serial killer Bible John. Police Scotland to re-examine notorious unsolved 1960s murders of three Glasgow women as a result of BBC series.' See: https://t.co/CNOjT0n1ND
— CIoJ (@CIoJournalist) October 11, 2023
Guardian reports: "Spotify’s new audiobook streaming could have ‘devastating effect’, says Society of Authors." See: https://t.co/xe0DNQBbHI
— CIoJ (@CIoJournalist) October 11, 2023
Guardian reports: 'Europe’s oldest student newspaper saved from closure. More than £3,000 raised to keep the Student – founded in 1886 by Robert Louis Stevenson at Edinburgh University – going.' See: https://t.co/cpOoPAec4E
— CIoJ (@CIoJournalist) October 11, 2023
Guardian reports: "Salman Rushdie announces memoir, Knife, about being stabbed in 2022. The author describes the book, subtitled Meditations After an Attempted Murder, as ‘a way to take charge of what happened, and to answer violence with art.'" See: https://t.co/9nzIO9cWa1
— CIoJ (@CIoJournalist) October 11, 2023
French Newspapers Wednesday 11th October 2023
Marina Hyde writes for Guardian: 'Look at the horror of the Israel-Hamas war, then at Elon Musk’s X site. It’s clear he’s not fit to run it.' See: https://t.co/KhWjmdG7em
— CIoJ (@CIoJournalist) October 11, 2023
Amy Mae Baxter writes for Guardian: 'Literary magazines can be life-changing – but they need more support.' See: https://t.co/mnGXndI3th
— CIoJ (@CIoJournalist) October 11, 2023
John Simpson writes for the Telegraph: "BBC would be 'taking sides' if it described Hamas as terrorists." See: https://t.co/D7n0mYdkpU
— CIoJ (@CIoJournalist) October 11, 2023
Hadar Sela writes for CAMERA (Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting and Analysis): 'BBC backgrounder on Hamas attacks short on ‘essential context’ See: https://t.co/GjKZzujhoq
— CIoJ (@CIoJournalist) October 11, 2023
Hold The Front Page reports: 'Labour demands ‘equitable remuneration’ for regional titles.' See: https://t.co/F8YKd6fpO7
— CIoJ (@CIoJournalist) October 11, 2023
Hold The Front Page: 'Law Column: No party holds a veto on reporting in the Family Court.' See: https://t.co/qc5TTKVYIU
— CIoJ (@CIoJournalist) October 11, 2023
Hold The Front Page reports: 'Independent weekly is ‘successor’ to defunct regional daily says editor.' See https://t.co/KHaeLy3O8a
— CIoJ (@CIoJournalist) October 11, 2023
Hold The Front Page reports: 'Europe’s oldest student newspaper is fighting for its future after a major print advertiser pulled its business.' See: https://t.co/X8ru6Xno7y
— CIoJ (@CIoJournalist) October 11, 2023
Hold The Front Page reports: 'A journalist couple were threatened by people who turned up at their home after they investigated far-right activity on their patch.' See: https://t.co/wB7IT3mUN7
— CIoJ (@CIoJournalist) October 11, 2023
Press Gazette reports: 'Publishers adapt to Twitter dropping headlines from story snippets. From posting the links twice to full-on back-end CMS changes, here's what we found.' See: https://t.co/jvmJhR0Jl6
— CIoJ (@CIoJournalist) October 11, 2023
Press Gazette reports; "BBC defends decision not to use word ‘terrorist’ in Hamas reporting. The BBC said its responsibility is to "remain objective."' See: https://t.co/zpVygX90zT
— CIoJ (@CIoJournalist) October 11, 2023
Montage of world newspapers for Wednesday 11th October 2023
