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Petitioners Demand Comcast Carry Al-Jazeera English Nationally

February 10, 2012 By Lucas Shaw 1 year ago

Grassroots activists will deliver an online petition signed by almost 25,000 people to Comcast headquarters on Monday

  

NBC's Richard Engel Launches iPad-Based Series, Tours With Lucifer

February 6, 2012 By Lucas Shaw 1 year ago

NBC's chief foreign correspondent talks about his new series, which will debut on the iPad -- a product he doesn't own

  

Tweeters, Media Protest Twitter's New Censorship Rules (Updated)

January 27, 2012 By Lucas Shaw 1 year ago

Country-specific censorship of tweets places the social networking site on the other side of the censorship conversation

  

Economy, Arab Spring, 2012 Election Were Year’s Top News Stories

December 21, 2011 By Lucas Shaw 1 year ago

20 percent of the time news was being covered, it was about the economy

  

Time Magazine's Person of the Year: The Protester

December 14, 2011 By Lucas Shaw 1 year ago

From the Arab Spring to the Occupy Movement, protesters changed the world, Kurt Andersen writes

  

Facebook's Sheryl Sandberg: The Social Network Is a Force for Good

September 16, 2011 By Brent Lang 1 year ago

At the Paley Center, the COO made the company sound like a digital utopia

  

Fox News' Freed Libya Journo: We Rigged a Laptop to Watch 'Point Break'

August 24, 2011 By Lucas Shaw 1 year ago

EXCLUSIVE: Tadek Markowski talked with TheWrap about scrounging for food and watching "Point Break" on a laptop while captive at the Rixos Hotel

  

Journalists Freed From Tripoli's Rixos Hotel

August 24, 2011 By Lucas Shaw 1 year ago

After being holed up for five days, scores of foreign journalists were permitted to leave the Tripoli hotel

  

British PM David Cameron's Response to London Riots -- Hypocrisy or Safety First?

August 11, 2011 By Lucas Shaw 1 year ago

The British prime minister sings a different tune about social media now that the uprising is on home soil

  

Al-Jazeera English Launches in New York

August 1, 2011 By Lucas Shaw 1 year ago

Since midnight on Monday, Al-Jazeera English has been available to Time Warner subscribers in New York City and will soon be available to Verizon FiOS subscribers in the Big Apple as well

  
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