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		<title>Ethiopian state TV resumes Arabsat transmission after interruption</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Excerpt from report in English by pro-Ethiopian government Walta Information Centre website on 11 February
Addis Ababa, 11 February: Ethiopian Television&#8217;s [ETV, State-owned] Arabsat broadcast that had failed for the past few weeks due to technical problem has resumed transmission.
ERTA&#8217;s [Ethiopian Radio and Television Agency] Deputy Director-General in charge of Media Technology, Haileab Abraha, said having [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.rnw.nl/medianetwork/ethiopian-state-tv-resumes-arabsat-transmission-after-interruption</link>
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		<title>Fired because of Facebook</title>
		<description><![CDATA[People who post their opinion on Twitter or Facebook do not always expect serious consequences as a result. However, photographs, videos and messages posted on social media are increasingly grounds for dismissal, lawsuits or even prison sentences. Dutch lawyers report an increase in legal disputes following ill-advised use of social media.

Read the article on the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.rnw.nl/medianetwork/fired-because-of-facebook</link>
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		<title>ABC releases video on &#8216;top hat&#8217; mast of 3WV Dooen</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When it comes to beaming radio waves across vast distances, the Dooen transmitter is world class. Standing 201 metres tall with a 19 metre wide capacitive &#8216;top hat&#8217;, the 3WV mast in western Victoria stands out in the vast flat landscape that stretches below it.
Celebrating 75 years of service, the occasion of World Radio Day [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.rnw.nl/medianetwork/abc-releases-video-on-unique-antenna-of-3wv-dooen</link>
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		<title>Michael Lynton is BBG’s Interim Presiding Governor</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Following the departure of Chairman Walter Isaacson, the US Broadcasting Board of Governors yesterday unanimously approved BBG member Michael Lynton as its new interim presiding governor. “It is a pleasure to work with this multi-talented, bipartisan board, and an honour to be elected to help lead the organization,” Mr Lynton said. “We are each committed [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.rnw.nl/medianetwork/michael-lynton-is-bbg%e2%80%99s-interim-presiding-governor</link>
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		<title>Internally displaced Somalis given radio sets to access information on aid</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Text of report by privately-owned Jowhar news portal
The Transitional Federal Government of Somalia&#8217;s [TFG] Posts and Telecommunication has begun the distribution of up to 6,000 radio sets meant for internally displaced people in Mogadishu. The distribution of the first 1,000 radio sets started in the Badbaado camp which is the biggest in Mogadishu and was [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.rnw.nl/medianetwork/internally-displaced-somalis-given-radio-sets-to-access-information-on-aid</link>
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		<title>Europeans protest controversial Internet pact</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Tens of thousands of people marched in protests in more than a dozen  European cities today against a controversial anti-online piracy pact  that critics say could curtail Internet freedom. Some 41,000  people rallied in Germany, including 16,000 in Munich and 10,000 in  Berlin, against the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA), which  [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.rnw.nl/medianetwork/europeans-protest-controversial-internet-pact</link>
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		<title>Bangladesh journalist couple stabbed to death</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Two prominent television journalists in Bangladesh were brutally  stabbed to death today at their home in the capital Dhaka, police  said. The motive for the slaying of the husband and wife, who worked for private television, was unknown, police said. They  were killed early yoday at their apartment while their six-year-old  [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.rnw.nl/medianetwork/bangladesh-journalist-couple-stabbed-to-death</link>
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		<title>Free access without app or web? It&#8217;s called radio</title>
		<description><![CDATA[On World Radio Day, 13 February 2012, UNESCO will remind the world that there is a medium which reaches parts that other media can&#8217;t reach.
Radio is still a vital form of communication because a radio station can be set up much faster, and at much lower cost, than a terrestrial or satellite TV station. Radio [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.rnw.nl/medianetwork/free-access-without-app-or-web-its-called-radio</link>
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		<title>BBC to issue global apology for &#8216;news fixing&#8217; scandal</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The BBC will today apologise to an estimated 74 million people around the world for a news fixing scandal, exposed by The Independent, in which it broadcast documentaries made by a London TV company that was earning millions of pounds from PR clients which it featured in its programming.
BBC World News viewers from Kuala Lumpur [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.rnw.nl/medianetwork/bbc-to-issue-global-apology-for-news-fixing-scandal</link>
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		<title>Anonymous briefly knocks CIA website offline</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The website of the Central Intelligence Agency was briefly  inaccessible on Friday after the hacker group Anonymous claimed to have  knocked it offline. &#8220;CIA Tango down,&#8221; a member of Anonymous said  on @YourAnonNews, a Twitter feed used by the group. &#8220;Tango down&#8221; is an  expression used by the US Special Forces [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://blogs.rnw.nl/medianetwork/anonymous-briefly-knocks-cia-website-offline</link>
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