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On May 14, policymakers and media activists gathered at the Newseum in Washington (DC) to discuss America's communications future. Keynote speakers noted that we cannot think about the future of any one media policy in isolation. For too long, our media system has been shaped by policies - for media ownership, broadband deployment, public media funding - that were made in silos, cordoned off from one another. The different agencies, different laws, and different priorities that have guided these discussions have left us with a media system that is disjointed and in crisis."

This recently launched site is dedicated to looking at the future of newspapers, but there is a notable twist. It is being led by a group of newspaper executives.

"The Newspaper Project was launched in 2009 by a small group of newspaper executives who wanted to support a productive exchange of information and ideas about the future of newspapers. On February 2nd, the newspaperproject.org website was launched along with the first in a series of print and online ads that have been running in more than 400 newspapers across the country."

"As faltering brands look for new strategies, and the newspaper industry desperately searches for a way to keep a portion, if not all of its print business alive, traditional media companies are using social media to engage their audiences."

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The 13 journalists claim that Kul Al-Watan, an online newspaper previously known as Hedayah Net, published a story saying that Saudi women journalists resort to drugs, prostitution, alcohol and unlawful relations to reach high positions in their profession.

The complaints were sent to the Ministry of Interior, the Ministry of Culture and Information, the Human Rights Commission and the SJA."