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Apple launched News Partner Program to support Journalism
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Apple launched News Partner Program to support Journalism

CUPERTINO, Calif., 26th Aug 2021-- Apple introduced the News Partner Program to expand Apple’s work with and support for journalism. The News Partner Program aims to ensure Apple News customers maintain access to trusted news and information from many of the world’s top publishers. The News Partner Program is designed for subscription news publications that provide their content to Apple News in Apple News Format (ANF). ANF enables an exceptional reading experience on Apple News and unlocks the full benefit of the platform for publishers, and empowers publishers to create brand-forward stories, immersive issues, and audio stories, with designs that scale seamlessly across Apple devices. ANF also supports advertising, and publishers keep 100 percent of the revenue from advertising they ...
Free speech cannot be absolute, should not be trampled upon:VP
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Free speech cannot be absolute, should not be trampled upon:VP

Vice President Venkaiah Naidu said today that freedom of speech and expression cannot be "absolute" but it should also not be trampled upon. Naidu, who was the Information and Broadcasting Minister before getting elected as the vice president, said he was "not pleased" with India's ranking in the World Press Freedom Index. This issue should be addressed by strengthening medias independence, ensuring transparent flow of information, making legal framework more coherent and ensuring safety of journalists, he said. India's World Press Freedom Index ranking plunged to 136 in 2017. Naidu, in his keynote address at the Ramnath Goenka Awards for Excellence in Journalism, also said that he twice expressed the desire before Prime Minister Narendra Modi to retire from active politics and...
Know Why Television Media Firm NDTV Is Firing 25% Of Its Employees
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Know Why Television Media Firm NDTV Is Firing 25% Of Its Employees

The layoff trend has reached India now! We recently witnessed international companies like Teva, ESPN, GE and Siemens laying off a considerable number of employees. Now an Indian media firm NDTV added its name to the list. As per the filings in stock exchange, the television media firm will be firing 25 percent of its total task-force by the next month as it plans on focusing on English and Hindi news and digital content business solely. "The strategy we are adopting calls for a far leaner operation which will feed only our core business: our English and Hindi news channels, and NDTV Convergence and its digital teams that run our news and other apps and websites," the statement filed by NDTV said. NDTV will be minimizing its ancillary business that NDTV worked hard to expand over a sp...
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Snapchat Removes Al Jazeera Channel In Saudi Arabia

Social Media Platform Snapchat has recently blocked Al Jazeera, a well-known Qatari broadcaster from its app in Saudi Arabia at the request of Saudi authorities, the company said on Sunday. Saudi Arabia told the social media company that the Al Jazeera Discover Publisher Channel violated local laws. "We make an effort to comply with local laws in the countries where we operate," a Snapchat spokesperson said in a statement on Sunday. According to Snap Inc., the Saudi ministry of culture and information found Al Jazeera's Discover Publisher Story channel to be in violation of local laws. Saudi Arabia and its allies the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain and Egypt have been boycotting Qatar since June 5 in the region's worst diplomatic crisis in years. Al Jazeera Media Network's acting...