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News website allows virtual Giza tour in 3D

An Egyptian couple observes the landscape from one of the Giza pyramids on the outskirts of Cairo, Egypt.
12 May 2012
Vicarious travellers and students of history can take a virtual stroll through the vast necropolis build by the ancient Egyptians in the Giza Plateau thanks to a 3D Internet project launched this week. The interactive recreation, to be...
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Twitter users don’t have immunity, warns British top law officer

12 May 2012
The internet is not a law-free zone, the British government's top law officer warned Twitter users, adding that he would not hesitate to take action over offending posts. Attorney General Dominic Grieve, the government's chief...
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Dubai Press Club: Al-Masry Al-Youm has highest circulation in Egypt

Al-Masry Al-Youm logo
09 May 2012
The fourth edition of the Dubai Press Club report “Arab Media Outlook” says Al-Masry Al-Youm has the highest readership among Egyptian newspapers, with 61 percent of the total number of Egyptian newspaper readers, making it the...
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China bars reporter, Al Jazeera closes bureau in Beijing

Al Jazeera English office in China
08 May 2012
Al Jazeera said on Tuesday it has shut its English-language bureau in Beijing after Chinese authorities expelled its correspondent Melissa Chan and failed to grant visas to other journalists. The Foreign Correspondents' Club of China (...
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Middle East blog competition winners announced

A Saudi internet surfer checks his Twitter account at a coffee shop in Riyadh. Malaysia has deported a young Saudi journalist who is wanted in his home country over a Twitter post about the Prophet Mohamed that sparked calls for his execution, according to an official. (AFP Photo/Fayez Nureldine)
07 May 2012
Two major blogging competitions, the international competition “The Bobs” and the Arabic award “Arabisk,” announced their winners on 2 May. The competitions prove that even as other social media, like Facebook and...
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Sky News Arabia, 24-hour Arabic-language news channel, goes on air

Sky News Arabia
06 May 2012
Sky News Arabia, a 24-hour Arabic language news channel based in Abu Dhabi, began broadcasting Sunday, pledging to be "objective" in its news coverage. The channel's lead story was the French presidential election, with live...
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After attacks on press, syndicate to sue SCAF and form committee

Clashes between military forces and protesters in Abbasiya, May 4,2012.Clashes erupted when protesters attempting to exceed barbed wires, which left injuries but no deaths.
06 May 2012
Following the assault and detention of several journalists covering clashes in Abbasseya on Friday, the Journalists Syndicate board announced on Sunday its intention to sue the ruling military council and others involved in the aggression...
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UN-Egypt program to reform media and freedom of expression

03 May 2012
The United Nations is cooperating with the Egyptian government, local NGOs and media institutions to launch a program aimed at reforming the media and freedom of expression in Egypt, according to the UN’s resident coordinator in...
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A free press talks

03 May 2012
The World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers (WAN-IFRA), in collaboration with Egypt Independent, organized a call to gather posters, web banners and info graphics that can stir debate around press freedom on the occasion of...
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Report: No press freedom decline worldwide for first time in 8 years

Central Security forces clashed with a journalist in a demonstration, an image for the suppression of freedoms in the Arab States as report of "Frame House"
01 May 2012
As decades-old authoritarian regimes crumbled or eased their grip in countries as widespread as Myanmar, Egypt, Libya and Tunisia, freedom of the press gained precarious new footholds last year, according to a survey by a watchdog group...
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