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179명의 목숨을 앗아간 제주항공 여객기 참사가 일어나고 일주일 뒤, 우한울 KBS 기자는 전남 무안으로 무작정 내려갔다. 취재 방향을 잡고 움직였다기보다는 무모하게 덤빈 편이었다. 그는 무안공항…

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Tracking progress, backlash and new strategies in media inclusion. Across global media, diversity, equity and inclusion (DEI) is facing a pivotal moment. Once championed as both a moral and business imperative, it is now encountering growing political and social pushback, particularly in Donald Trump’s United States, where conservative forces have triggered widespread scaling back of corporate DEI initiatives.

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Leading figures say skilled freelancers feel ‘massive fear’ about speaking out and are leaving industryToxic behaviour in British television is jeopardising one of the UK’s most important cultural and economic assets, industry experts have warned.In the wake of a damaging report from the BBC on Monday that upheld 45 complaints about the former MasterChef presenter Gregg Wallace, leading figures in television said a workforce populated by financially insecure freelance workers remained too scared to speak out about harmful behaviour. Continue reading...

Exclusive: City-funded campaign is endorsed by government, and aims to increase financial risk-taking in effort to spur growthIsa shakeup: How can chancellor nudge savers into buying shares?The advertising agency WPP has been asked to work up ideas for a government-endorsed advertising blitz to urge more consumers to invest in stocks through a “Tell Sid”-style campaign expected to cost tens of millions of pounds.Plans for the nationwide push were announced by chancellor Rachel Reeves on Tuesday at her Mansion House speech, as she unveiled a fresh deregulation drive meant to increase financial risk-taking across the UK to help spur growth. Continue reading...

Superinjunction preventing reporting of data breach was lifted this week more than 600 days after it had taken effect‘Serious questions to answer’ over data breach, says PMA data breach that led the UK government to offer relocation to 15,000 Afghans in a secret scheme with a potential cost of more than £2bn escaped parliamentary and media scrutiny until Tuesday when a superinjunction was lifted more than 600 days after it had taken effect. Here, the Guardian explains the legal background to the controversy. Continue reading...

Move follows concerns several papers in Forensic Sciences Research did not meet ethical standards on DNA collectionOxford University Press (OUP) will no longer publish a controversial academic journal sponsored by China’s Ministry of Justice after years of concerns that several papers in the publication did not meet ethical standards about DNA collection.A statement published on the website of Forensic Sciences Research (FSR) states that OUP will stop publishing the quarterly journal after this year. Continue reading...

Survey across six continents uncovers accounts of abuse causing defenders to fear for their safetyDeath threats, doxing and cyber-attacks are just some of the online threats recounted by land and climate defenders in a new report, amid concerns that harassment is having a chilling effect on environmental activism.Interviews and questionaires sent out to more than 200 environmental defenders across six continents by Global Witness found that nine in 10 activists reported receiving abuse over their work. Three in four defenders who said they had experienced offline harm believed that digital harassment contributed to it. Continue reading...

Traders affiliated to Iran-backed rebel group found to have been running weapon stores on social media for yearsArms dealers affiliated with Houthi militants in Yemen are using X and Meta platforms to traffic weapons – some US-made – in apparent violation of the social media firms’ policies, a report has revealed.The Houthis, an Iran-backed group of rebels who have controlled swathes of Yemen since 2014, are designated as a terrorist organisation by the US, Canada and other countries. Continue reading...

Police say suspect arrested in connection with the deaths after finding the couple’s bodies with gunshot woundsLos Angeles police discovered American Idol music supervisor Robin Kaye and her husband, musician Thomas Deluca, dead in their Encino home on Monday, in what authorities are investigating as a double homicide.After responding to the neighbors for a welfare check, officers told celebrity news site TMZ, which first reported the news, that they found blood outside the couple’s $4.5m home. Inside, police discovered Kaye and Deluca’s bodies in separate rooms with gunshot wounds, NBC Los Angeles reports, citing police statements. Continue reading...

The summer success of the streamer’s Trainwreck series of docs shows how so many of us just can’t look away from unfolding chaosTrainwreck has become TV’s unlikely summer breakout, a runaway blockbuster for Netflix.Not to be confused with the 2015 comedy starring Amy Schumer, Trainwreck is the Netflix-produced anthology documentary series that revisits the shocking, bizarre and chaotic real-life media sensations of yesteryear. Episodes run the gamut from pop culture disasters (Travis Scott’s Astroworld tragedy) to public meltdowns (crack-smoking Toronto mayor Rob Ford) to wildly improbable fiascos (the Carnival “poop cruise”), with each seemingly destined to land on the streamer..

After mounting criticism over its coverage of the war in Gaza, will the BBC change its approach? Michael Savage reportsOn Monday, the BBC released its long-awaited report into its decision to remove the documentary Gaza: How to Survive a Warzone from its platforms. The report determined that not making viewers aware of the fact that the narrator’s father was a member of the Hamas-run government of Gaza constituted a breach of its editorial policies, specifically on accuracy. However, the documentary was not found to have breached guidelines on impartiality.As the Guardian’s media editor Michael Savage tells Helen Pidd, the release of this report has come after a particularly intense peri..

Television versions of the author’s writing have been mixed, to say the least. Ahead of The Institute – about a bootcamp for telekinetic kids – we rate the lot, from the volcanically dull to the Tim Curry-as-Pennywise brilliantThere are several things we have come to expect from small-screen adaptations of Stephen King’s many, many novels and short stories and they are, generally speaking, these: there will be a small town beset by an Ageless Evil. There will be children, some of whom will be dead, others merely telekinetic and/or screaming in pyjamas. There will be blood. And flannel shirts. And dialogue so awful you will want to bludgeon it with a spade and inter it in an ancient b..

Beninese journalist, Hugues Comlan Sossoukpe, who is the publisher and director of the online newspaper Olofofo and a government critic, was arrested in the Ivorian capital, Abidjan, on 10 July and extradited to the Republic of Benin. He has been charged with ‘supporting terrorism’ and is currently being held in custody in Quidah, south of Benin. The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) condemns in the strongest terms possible this arrest and extradition of Sossoukpe, which violate international protocols related to his refugee status, and demands his immediate release.