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Biden criticises Chinese government on treatment of American journalists

Earlier this week, Vice President Joseph Biden took a moment during his diplomatic trip to Asia to condemn the Chinese government’s treatment of foreign reporters. This comes after journalists from Bloomberg News and The New York Times have experienced delays in getting their yearly visa renewal. If the government does not grant the renewal, the reporters will be forced to leave China.

Medium revamps design, upgrades ‘Beautiful Stories’

Medium, a blog publishing platform from the creators of Blogger and Twitter, has updated its design to focus more on visual elements in a post, and has also changed the way its collections work.

Quebecor, Canada’s largest publisher, cutting 200 jobs

Sun Media, a division of Quebecor Media Inc. and Canada’s largest newspaper publisher, announced 200 layoffs on Wednesday, with a quarter of them coming from the editorial department.

When the ‘Pork Barrel’ hit Manila – part 2

In an interview with editor-in-chief of The Inquirer, Letty Jimenez-Magsanoc, Gunnar Springfeldt gets to the bottom of how the newspaper reported the ‘pork barrel’ scandal that revealed large-scale fraud of public money in The Philippines.

When the ‘Pork Barrel’ hit Manila

Until the devastating typhoon Haiyan, another story has dominated the Filipino news flow this year: the “pork barrel” scandal. The leading Manila daily, The Philippine Daily Inquirer, is responsible for breaking this news story that will change the country forever, and that has seen tens of thousands of Filipinos take to the streets.

Conference looks at how journalists are dealing with change

“You have to try a lot harder if you’re a journalist… It’s no longer where you went to school or what degrees you have. It is your skill,” Mathew Ingram, a senior writer with Gigaom, told participants at the School of Journalism at Sciences-Po in Paris during its annual conference on new journalism practices earlier this week.

Newsweek plans to relaunch its print magazine in 2014

In a move that seems counter-intuitive to recent magazine trends, Newsweek will be relaunching its print edition beginning in early 2014.

Costa Rican wins Gabriel García Márquez Award for Excellence in Journalism

Giannina Segnini recently won this year’s Gabriel García Márquez Award for “Excellence in Journalism” after she used technological advancements to expose corruption in Costa Rica and beyond.

Update: Journalists covering Ukrainian protests beaten by police

Over the weekend, on “Black Saturday” as Ukrainians now call it; thousands of people gathered to protest President Viktor Yanukovych’s decision to not enter the country into the European Union.

New York magazine to reduce frequency in print

Despite optimism surrounding US magazine advertising revenues, which increased 4 percent in the third quarter, another prominent American magazine has decided to decrease its number of print editions, due at least in part to its own revenue losses.