theMaven announces Sports Illustrated layoffs, media outraged
The 65-year-old Sports Illustrated magazine has fallen into chaos after meetings Thursday afternoon, when managers told staff members that about half the newsroom would be laid off, according to two people present More...
Eritrea worst than North Korea, communist China for a free press
On Tuesday, the US-based Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) released a report ranking the top ten countries with the least Freedom of Press. The list was topped by Eritrea. The other nine on the list included More...
Newsweek still battling PR nightmare from fraud accusations, malicious computer code on IB Times
Social Puncher made an independent audit of the federal US government biggest spending in advertising and found fraud with the website Ibtimes.com, a subsidiary publisher of Newsweek. Now Newsweek Media Group announced More...
Why do leading PR Pros prefer to work with reputed news sites for securing new markets?
The most significant challenge to brand building and digital recognition is information tribalism. It is resulting in the fragmentation of media and the dislodging of trust from the trusted media experts. While More...
Fake News: ABC suspends Brian Ross over bogus Michael Flynn, Trump, Russia story
ABC News has suspended, Brian Ross, their chief investigative correspondent, for four weeks without pay after incorrectly reporting that former NSA director Michael Flynn would testify that President Trump had More...
‘Liar’ Brian Williams lands at MSNBC, still blames ‘choice of words’
In the wake of the Brian Williams scandal, the humiliated anchor gave a partial apoology on his way to MSNBC, a clear demotion from his bogus tales of trips with troops in war zones. Williams, 56, who was hit with More...
The Search for News You Can Use as a Writer
You’re a writer, and that means that what you do is write. However, there are about 8 billion other people out there writing as well. A lot of it is good stuff – well written, informed, entertaining, etc. And More...
Ethiopian government arrests six bloggers and a journalist for ‘opposing view’
The Ethiopian government has arrested six independent bloggers and a journalist in what human rights group Amnesty International has called a “suffocating grip on freedom of expression”. Photo/Vectorportal More...
FCC seeking to monitor newrooms, ignoring pressure results in fines
An FCC commissioner is warning people about an agency study that would bring government monitors into newsrooms and inspect issues like the amount of time spent on the “critical information needs” of Americans More...
Philippines ‘Not Banned’ from future beauty contests
The headline reads–“PHILIPPINES DISQUALIFIED FROM BEAUTY PAGEANTS FOR THE NEXT TWO YEARS”. This may clearly shake up many people on the archipelago that has had so much success in beauty pageants More...
