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Unlike Oliver Stone, who knew how to interview Vladimir Putin, Megyn Kelly did not. Thus, she made a fool of herself, which is par for her course.

Positive News editor-in-chief Seán Dagan Wood introduces Impact Journalism Day, which takes place today. Publications all over the world will simultaneously publish stories about solutions, both driving and reflecting a wider shift in the media
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The Labour leader has moved ahead in the polls, showing a clear appetite for his positive approach to politics, writes Giselle Green. And it’s not just politicians that need to take note, it’s journalists too
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The typical newsroom set-up, where journalists chase after news headlines dictated by some centralized news gathering agency – often based in some western capital – does not suffice any more.
In the case of the Middle East, the news narrative has been defined by others and dictated on Arab journalists and audiences for far too long.
This hardly worked in the past but, in the last a few years, it has become even more irrelevant and dangerous.

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Chicago Police are feeling the heat over a project known as the “heat list” which depends upon a secret algorithm that reportedly contains the names of over a thousand people at any given time that are likely to engage in gun violence.
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The compact a free press has with the public is based on two fundamental pillars: truth and trust. To earn the latter isn’t easy, however, because the former rarely just lies around in plain sight, waiting to be typed up and published.

Russian President Vladimir Putin and the recently elected French President Emmanuel Macron held their first joint press conference today in Versailles. Macron set the tone by acting in one of the most snide and arrogant manners imaginable. It is fair to say that Macron’s rotten attitude had the effect of making Turkey’s strong-man President Erdogan appear like a master of tact and diplomacy.

Many liberals and leftists criticized the New York Times last month for giving right-wing ideologue Bret Stephens a piece of the most valuable real estate in U.S. journalism, a regular spot on its op-ed page.