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After tech companies, now US media titans begin lay-offs. Is the job market going to weaken further?
On Friday, Vox Media announced it would lay off seven per cent of its staff. Heavy hitters such as CNN, NBC, Washington Post, MSNBC, and Buzzfeed have all announced job cuts recently
Afghanistan: Over 6,000 journalists unemployed as Taliban stifles Afghan media
Many radio and TV stations as well as news agencies are struggling to stay afloat under Taliban rule. According to a report by Khama Press, more than 6,000 journalists have lost their jobs since the Afghan Taliban captured Kabul in August 2021
People trust business far more than other institutions in a more divided world, says report
People are more gloomy about their economic prospects than ever before and trust business far more than other institutions like governments, nonprofits, and the media in an increasingly divided world
The British monarchy has always controlled how much the public sees of it. Will King Charles III change that?
Censorship and royal control are not uncommon. The same can be expected at Charles III's coronation. The royal family's success is dependent on the palace's careful curation of their image, as well as their ongoing battle with the media over what can and cannot be shown
Elon Musk's abrupt suspensions of journalist widen rift between Twitter and media
Individual reporters with The New York Times, The Washington Post, CNN, Voice of America and other news agencies saw their accounts go dark Thursday
Explained: The alternate reality of the Ukraine war being presented by Russian state TV
Leaked emails show how Russia's largest state broadcaster has spun a version of the war in which Russia is winning, Ukraine is in shambles, and Western alliances are fraying. Even as the country suffers from battlefield losses, rising casualties, economic isolation, and international condemnation
Five years of Harvey Weinstein expose: How #MeToo reshaped media coverage on sexual abuse
According to a study conducted by the Women's Media Center feminist organisation, the media coverage of #MeToo and sexual assault jumped 52 per cent in 2018 after the initial 'The New York Times' and 'New Yorker' stories dropped
Explained: How 'infobesity' around Queen Elizabeth II's death is causing news fatigue
Experts believe that the blanket coverage of the Queen's demise may only encourage more people to turn off the news entirely — deepening the malaise surrounding the industry
'Media should self-regulate': Delhi HC blasts newspaper for dragging vlogger's child into article says
The Delhi Hight Court was hearing an appeal by the newspaper challenging an order of the single judge directing it to take down the allegedly objectionable article criticising a blogger
Taliban rulers order women TV anchors to cover their faces on air
An Afghan local media official confirmed his station had received the order and was told it was not up for discussion
Centre, BJP suppressing media, alleges Rajashthan CM Ashok Gehlot
Ashok Gehlot said this expressing concern over India's ranking in the Press Freedom Index, in which country stood at 150th spot among 180 nations
Sri Lanka's fuel pumps may go dry by April end; India's $500 million credit line exhausting rapidly
The public anger has prompted nearly all Cabinet ministers to quit, and scores of lawmakers to leave President Gotabaya Rajapaksa's government.
Sri Lanka appoints advisory panel to help resolve growing debt crisis, engage with IMF
PM Mahinda Rajapaksa is yet to appoint a new minister of finance. The country's Finance Minister Ali Sabry on Tuesday resigned, a day after the President appointed him after sacking his brother
World Day Against Cyber Censorship history and significance: All you need to know
The day was first observed in 2008 by Amnesty International and Reporters Without Borders
CNN fires Chris Cuomo for helping brother deal with scandal
The CNN anchor assisted his brother, former New York Governor Andrew Cuomo, who has been accused of sexual harassment, by pressing sources for information on the accusers and reporting back to the governor's staff on what he was learning
Abimael Guzmán, founder of Shining Path insurgency that terrorised Peru since 1980s, dies at 86
A truth commission in 2003 blamed the Shining Path for more than half of nearly 70,000 estimated deaths and disappearances between 1980 and 2000
Operation London Bridge: Funeral plans of Queen Elizabeth II leaked for the first time
The 95-year-old monarch is said to be buried 10 days after she dies and her son and heir, Prince Charles, will embark on a tour of the UK before the burial is held
At least 10 killed in South Africa over riots triggered by jailing of former president Jacob Zuma
President Cyril Ramaphosa assured the nation that the police and army would restore order and appealed to citizens to work together for peace
China watchdog orders ride service Didi to remove app from online stores just days after US IPO
An investigation found 'serious violations' in how Didi collected and used personal information, the Cyberspace Administration of China announced
USA Today fights FBI subpoena seeking records on readers of Florida shooting story
The news comes as the Justice Department has disclosed in recent weeks that it seized the email and phone records of reporters in at least three separate instances during the Trump administration.