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Lisa Simeone, the host of cultural radio programs broadcast by NPR, has come under criticism after becoming the official spokesperson for a group involved in Occupy Washington.

Tracy Wilkinson of the Los Angeles Times has explained the new word in the Mexican news industry: narco-censorship. "It's when reporters and editors, out of fear or caution, are forced to write what the traffickers want them to write, or to simply refrain from publishing the whole truth."

"We don't like the silence. But it's survival." News events are either omitted, or heavy euphemisms used. For example, newspapers reported a heavy battle between the army and some henchmen in Ciudad Juarez as "soldiers" engaging "armed civilians."

The casualty rate of reporters increased in 2006 when President Felipe Calderon declared a war against the drug cartels, but the situation recently escalated. "A ferocious increase in violence, including the July 26 kidnapping of four reporters, has pushed the profession into a crisis never before seen, drawn renewed international attention and spurred fresh activism on the part of Mexican newsmen and women."

WikiLeaks has struck again, with the biggest intelligence leak in history. Several weeks ago, WikiLeaks received about 91,000 reports concerning raw information of the war in Afghanistan. In an unprecedented decision WikiLeaks decided not to immediately release the highly classified reports, but instead shared its findings first with the New York Times, The Guardian, and the Der Spiegel.

It can be speculated that these three newspapers where chosen as a prestigious validity check on the reports, as they are top media outlets in the US, the UK, and Germany respectively. Conversely The Telegraph criticizes WikiLeaks for its supposed stance on being politically neutral while only releasing the reports to left-wing newspapers.

The Institute for War & Peace Reporting (IWPR) launched on January 19, 2004 the « Iraqi Press Monitor ». The bulletin will feature the top 7 stories of the day, along with a political cartoon, and include details of the newspapers they appeared in. The IWPR Iraqi Press Monitor is published five days a week. Monday through to Thursday, the service will focus on key news stories, while on Friday it will review in detail the leading opinion pieces of the week.