BOE Pushed Back on Tougher Libor Oversight. 'It's all about Iran! Don't be duped by US & UK, "the great humanitarians" - remember Iraq' 'Turken moeten Syrië iets uitleggen' Dinsdag 26 jun 2012, 13:54 (Update: 26-06-12, 16:38) Strijders van het Vrije Syrische Leger AFP Door buitenlandredacteur Esther Bootsma Het waren vooral grote woorden van Turkije en de NAVO vandaag op de NAVO-bijeenkomst over het neergeschoten Turkse vliegtuig. Want natuurlijk protesteren ze formeel tegen de Syrische beschieting. Maar NAVO-lidstaat Turkije is zelf ook niet brandschoon. Zo zeggen steeds meer bronnen dat Turkije wapens levert aan de Syrische rebellen, daarbij geholpen door medewerkers van de Amerikaanse inlichtingendienst CIA. "De Turken voelen nattigheid", zegt defensie-specialist en Clingendael-directeur Ko Colijn. Want het neergeschoten Turkse toestel, een F-4 Phantom-straaljager, is volgens Colijn ook een verkenningstoestel waarmee foto's kunnen worden gemaakt.
Wapenleveranties De Amerikaanse krant New York Times onthulde onlangs dat een klein aantal CIA-agenten sinds een paar weken in het geheim in het zuiden van Turkije opereert. Saudie-Arabië en Qatar Vluchtelingen. Www.ap.org. Assuring-that-we-can-continue-our-vital-mission-is-my-priority. July 9, 2012 Gary Pruitt has officially joined The Associated Press as its new president and CEO.
He succeeds Tom Curley, who will remain at AP through a transitional period ending in mid-August. Here is a letter Pruitt sent to AP’s global staff today. Hello, AP colleagues: I’m excited to join you today as AP’s new president. There is no media organization with more purpose and commitment, and I look forward to helping further that mission. In the past I have called the work of AP noble. Assuring that we can continue this vital mission is my priority. Over the next few months I’ll start visiting bureaus and customers to get a deeper picture of our global reach and opportunity. Under Tom Curley, AP has transformed from a traditional wire service agency to a multimedia digital news organization.
I’m thrilled to take over the leadership of AP as it moves forward in this new age. Gary Pruitt © 2013 The Associated Press. Gary-Pruitt-of-McClatchy-to-become-new-president-and-CEO-of-The-Associated-Press. March 21, 2012 NEW YORK -- The Associated Press today named Gary Pruitt as its new president and CEO. Pruitt, currently chairman, president and CEO of The McClatchy Co., will join AP in July. He succeeds retiring AP President and CEO Tom Curley to become the 13th leader of AP in its 166-year history. “In Gary, we have chosen a seasoned and worthy successor to Tom Curley to continue AP’s transition to a digital news company,” said Dean Singleton, outgoing chairman of the AP Board of Directors and chairman of MediaNews Group Inc. “Gary has deep experience in the changing world of the news industry, an acute business sense and an overriding understanding of and commitment to AP’s news mission.
His background as a First Amendment lawyer is a hand-in-glove fit with AP’s long leadership role in fighting for open government and freedom of information. And, he knows AP well.” Pruitt, 54, has served on the AP Board of Directors for nine years, including a period as vice chairman. Wins-Pulitzer-Prize-for-Investigative-Reporting-on-NYPD-surveillance. Www.ap.org/Content/Press-Release/2012/Trevor-Tompson-named-director-of-the-Associated-Press-NORC. April 25, 2012 CHICAGO -- Trevor Tompson, global director of polling for The Associated Press, has been named director of the Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research. In his new position, Tompson will have overall responsibility for managing operations of the AP-NORC Center, which combines the journalistic strength of AP with the social science research power of NORC at the University of Chicago. Officially launched in August 2011, the AP-NORC Center carries out research projects on issues in which there is a potential for social impact, including education, health care, race, unemployment, aging and poverty.
The center provides the greatest possible public awareness of the research results through the unparalleled distribution channels of AP and NORC. It is estimated that information carried by the media platforms of AP reach approximately half the world’s people each day. Tompson joins the AP-NORC Center as it begins a period of considerable growth. Four-AP-news-execs-named-regional-director-to-meet-market-customer-needs. May 2, 2012 NEW YORK -- Four veteran news service executives have been named regional director at The Associated Press, responsible for leading business development and responding quickly to member and customer needs in changing markets. The regional directors -- Dale Leach, Eva Parziale, Kevin Walsh and Michelle Williams -- will be AP’s primary liaison with major member groups and commercial entities, lead AP bureau chiefs in each region and address regional issues with colleagues across the AP.
They will serve as regional thought-leaders in the industry, staying on top of the cutting edge of media developments and advising members and customers. The new regional directors will continue to manage their individual state territories. The new regional directors and their areas of responsibility are as follows: Dale Leach, chief of bureau for Texas, Arkansas and Oklahoma, becomes regional director – Central. Eva Parziale, chief of bureau for Ohio and Michigan, becomes Regional Director- East.
Associated-Press-Google-award-six-scholarships-to-new-journalists. April 5, 2012 WASHINGTON, DC, April 5, 2012 — The Associated Press and Google today announced the first recipients of a new national scholarship program targeted at college students whose innovative projects exemplify the new journalist in the digital media age. The Online News Association, the world’s largest membership organization of digital journalists, administers the program. The AP-Google Journalism and Technology Scholarship provides $20,000 scholarships for the 2012-13 academic year to six promising undergraduate or graduate students pursuing or planning to pursue degrees at the intersection of journalism, computer science and new media.
A key goal is to promote geographic, gender and ethnic diversity, with an emphasis on rural and urban areas. The students were selected by a committee of digital media leaders from applications across the country. They are: Emily Eggleston, 24, a graduate student at the University of Wisconsin–Madison, studying journalism and geography. About ONA. Debate-on-Democracy-to-stream-online-from-economic-forum. Jan. 25, 2012 Are the democratic institutions of the 20th century fit for the 21st? This will be the focus of a debate among international leaders on Thursday, Jan. 26, hosted by The Associated Press, in partnership with the World Economic Forum, now underway in Davos, Switzerland. You can view a webcast of the debate on Livestream at 9:30 a.m.
ET (15:30 in Davos) – part of AP’s extensive, multiplatform coverage of the gathering for its customers worldwide. The debate, moderated by AP Senior Managing Editor for U.S. News Mike Oreskes, will include Rep. David T. Dreier (R-Calif.); Rached Ghannoushi, cofounder, Ennahda Movement, Tunisia; Hina Rabbani Khar, Pakistan minister of foreign affairs; Antonio de Aguiar Patriota, Brazil’s minister of external relations; and Kenneth Roth, executive director of Human Rights Watch.
Participants gather during the first day of the 42nd annual meeting of the World Economic Forum, in Davos, Switzerland, Wednesday, Jan. 25, 2012. Contact: Captures-7-awards-in-the-Pictures-of-the-Year-International-competition. March 8, 2012 The Associated Press has been cited for seven awards in the Pictures of the Year International competition. David Guttenfelder led the way for AP photographers with citations in three categories.
Pictures of the Year International is a program of the Donald W. Reynolds Journalism Institute at the Missouri School of Journalism. Below, see the list of categories for the five AP honorees who captured seven awards, including Guttenfelder, Matt Dunham, Pavel Rahman, Anja Niedringhaus and Misha Japaridze. In the listing, "HM" refers to Honorable Mention or Award of Excellence, as POYi refers to it. Feature Single AP – HM – Pavel Rahman Impact 2011 - Japan Earthquake AP – 3rd Place – David Guttenfelder General News Single AP – 3rd Place – Matt Dunham AP – HM – Anja Niedringhaus Premiere Award - Global Vision Award AP - Finalist – David Guttenfelder Premiere Award - Photographer of the Year (freelance/agency) AP – 2nd Place – David Guttenfelder – portfolio of images Sports Action Single.
Good sources are no substitute for open government. June 13, 2012 AP reporter Matt Apuzzo this week accepted the New York Press Club’s Gold Keyboard Investigative Journalism Award, bestowed on him and three of his colleagues for their series, "NYPD Spies on NYC. " The series, which began last August and also earned the quartet a Pulitzer Prize and other journalism honors this year, has documented the New York Police Department’s post-9/11 surveillance activities – surveillance of Muslim communities, on college campuses and in nearby municipalities. The AP stories can be seen at www.AP.org/nypd. In Apuzzo’s remarks at the Water Club in Manhattan, he called on his fellow journalists to demand greater access to public documents now parceled out by the NYPD. Here are Apuzzo’s comments in full: It really is such an honor to be here with you all.
Adam Goldman and I were looking back on this series not too long ago and we talked about how much of what we do now is built on what we learned as cub reporters working the cop beat. World-War-II-memoir-highlights-censorship-and-embargo. May 2, 2012 Sixty-seven years after AP fired correspondent Ed Kennedy for breaking a military embargo to report the end of World War II, President and CEO Tom Curley is apologizing for how the situation was handled. In an introduction to a newly published, posthumous memoir, Curley and Louisiana State University Provost John Maxwell Hamilton defend Kennedy’s actions. Calling him an “American hero,” they conclude that “Kennedy was the embodiment of the highest aspirations of the Associated Press and American journalism.”
Curley and Hamilton will discuss the book, “Ed Kennedy’s War: V-E Day, Censorship, & The Associated Press,” edited by his daughter, Julia Kennedy Cochran, May 9, at The National Press Club in Washington. “This fascinating memoir was written by a gifted war correspondent,” says Sydney H. Alex S. Reservations are required for the National Press Club discussion, scheduled for 6:30 p.m. Read the AP’s story about the book and Curley’s apology here: Www.stopimperialism.com.
Iran Plans Ballistic Missile Drill To Counter US, Israel. Iranian Revolutionary Guards drive speedboats during a ceremony to commemorate the 24th anniversary of the downing of Iran Air flight 655 by the US navy, at the port of Bandar Abbas on Monday. TEHRAN – Iran said it was readying ballistic missile war games simulating a counter-attack against US or Israeli targets in the region in the event of air strikes on its nuclear facilities.
The three-day drill in Iran’s central desert region was starting days after the European Union and the United States imposed severe new sanctions, and on the eve of another round of negotiations with world powers seeking to curb Tehran’s nuclear ambitions. “All units and missile bases have commenced their preparation and movement to the designated areas,” the Revolutionary Guards, Iran’s powerful elite military force conducting the exercise, said in a statement published by the official IRNA news agency. And Xinhua sign historic photo distribution agreement. June 7, 2012 The Associated Press and the Xinhua News Agency have signed an agreement for the distribution of AP photos in China. Under the agreement, Xinhua will sell AP photos in China.
While AP and Xinhua have had a mutual text and photo exchange for many years, the new agreement is the first commercial contract between the two news agencies. At a signing ceremony June 5 at Xinhua headquarters in Beijing, AP President and CEO Tom Curley said the agreement “allows us to take advantage of the changes in the world and allows us to use this historic moment as a bridge to wider understanding between the AP and Xinhua and between China and the United States.”
Xinhua President Li Congjun said: “The commercial cooperation of AP and Xinhua addresses the growing demands of media. About The AP The Associated Press is the essential global news network, delivering fast, unbiased news from every corner of the world to all media platforms and formats. For more information: Paul Colford. Tanzania’s China-Funded Gas Pipeline to Be Started This Year.
Tanzania will borrow the money it needs so that it can start construction in the next year on a natural gas pipeline, for which China has already offered a $1.2 billion loan, Finance Minister William Mgimwa said. Tanzania will use part of 1.2 trillion shillings ($757.1 million) in non-concessional loans it expects to take in 2012-13 to pay its portion of the construction cost, Mgimwa said in his annual budget presentation today in parliament in Dodoma, the capital.
He didn’t give further details. “The government will implement the gas pipeline construction project from Mtwara to Dar es Salaam,” he said, referring to the southern coastal town where the facility will start and its terminus in Tanzania’s commercial capital. Statoil ASA (STL), Norway’s biggest energy company, today said it found an estimated 3 trillion cubic feet of gas off Tanzania’s Indian Ocean coast. The Export-Import Bank of China last year agreed to finance most of the construction, according to Tanzania’s government. Syria's Assad Rejects Comparison With Egypt, Libya. West clings to Arab influence with airstrike democracy - Putin. Business & Financial News, Breaking US & International News | Reuters.com. CIA director meets Saudi king in Jeddah. Saudi King Abdullah bin Abdulaziz Al Saud (R) meets with CIA Director David Petraeus in Jeddah on July 9, 2012 .
The director of the US Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), David Petraeus, has met with the Saudi king in Saudi Arabia as Riyadh intensifies its crackdown on anti-government protesters. Petraeus met with ailing Saudi King Abdullah in the city of Jeddah on Monday, Arab News reported. There have been no reports on what was discussed during the meeting. However meetings between Saudi and US officials have spiked in recent weeks amid Washington’s concerns over an internal power struggle in the royal family that seems deeply split as the several thousand princes and princesses are setting up their own coalitions as well as street protests against the monarchy. On Monday, Saudi activists called for anti-government demonstrations across Saudi Arabia’s Eastern Province as tension remains high in the oil-rich region over the detention of Shia cleric Sheikh Nemr al-Nemr.
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The Balochistan Levies registered a case against the unidentified kidnappers and started a search operation. Local officials said the victim was identified as Mohammad Naseem, an employee of a private company. Later, it was handed over to its heirs. End. Analysis-of-casualties-from-US-drone-strikes-in-Pakistan-the-backstory. Business & Financial News, Breaking US & International News | Reuters.com. UPDATED: Egypt's constitutional court suspends presidential decree restoring People's Assembly. Party leader Jibril calls for unity as Libya votes tallied. Top Reporter In Yemen Explains What's Really Going On In The Covert US War There. Central Africa: Rwanda in Congo - Sixteen Years of Intervention. Mali: how the West cleared the way for al-Qaeda’s African march.
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