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Family of missing journalist Austin Tice make plea to Syrian government through Arabic-language TV, by @victoriacnyc

NY Daily News :: “Knowing Austin is alive is comforting to our family, although it is difficult to see him in the circumstances recently depicted,” his family said in a statement released to Russia Today’s Arabic service.

A report by Victoria Cavaliere, www.nydailynews.com

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U.S. journalist Austin Tice reportedly in Syrian custody

Washington Post :: American freelance journalist Austin Tice, who has been unaccounted for in Syria for more than two weeks, has been captured and is being held in Syrian government custody, according to people familiar with the matter, including a senior diplomat.

A report by Ernesto Londoño, www.washingtonpost.com

Reuters blogging platform hacked again on Wednesday: False Saudi blog posted

The identity of the hacker(s) are unknown, but of course Reuters speculates on the reasons behind the recent attacks and ascribes it to "an intensifying conflict in cyberspace between supporters and opponents of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad."

Reuters :: The blogging platform of the Reuters News website was hacked (on Wednesday) and a false posting saying Saudi Arabia's Foreign Minister Prince Saud al-Faisal had died was illegally posted on a Reuters journalist's blog, the company said on Wednesday.

A report by Andrew Torchia, www.reuters.com

 

Facebook, Twitter play key role in Syrian uprising: Also for infiltration

Reuters Twitter account was recently hacked and also "false reports about Syrian rebel losses" were posted. Thomson Reuters mentioned that they had no clue of who's behind the hacking. Does that kind of hacking have any impact at all? A doubt raised by Dan Murphy, Christian Science Monitor.

Times Of India :: The battle for Syria is raging on the ground but also on social media, where people on both sides of the conflict are hacking, posting and spamming in a frenzied propaganda war. The Twitter feeds of news organisations have been hacked by pro-regime elements, videos purporting to show atrocities in Syria are regularly posted to YouTube and pro- or anti-government messages often flood Facebook pages.

A report by mbx/al/bm, timesofindia.indiatimes.com

Push by Syrian rebels opens space for foreign journalists to report on conflict

The Lede | New York Times :: While forces loyal to Syria's President Bashar al-Assad appear unlikely to give up their effort to crush the uprising anytime soon, one tangible sign of a tilt in the balance of power is the increasing number and frequency of reports from foreign journalists who have managed to enter Syria without government permission.

A report by Robert Mackey, thelede.blogs.nytimes.com

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Second security breach: @ReutersTech was hacked and changed to @ReutersME

The Next Web :: New agency Thomson Reuters suffered its second Web security breach in 48 hours after hackers took control of its Twitter account dedicated to technology news, changing the focus to the Middle East and posting a series of pro-Syrian government tweets to its 17,500 followers.

Earlier today @reuterstech was hacked and changed to @reutersme. The account has been suspended and is currently under investigation

— Reuters Top News (@Reuters) August 5, 2012

A report by Jon Russell, thenextweb.com

Syrian TV presenter Mohammed al-Saeed executed

AFP | DOHA Centre for Media Freedom :: Syrian television presenter Mohammed al-Saeed, kidnapped from his Damascus home in mid-July, has been executed, the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said on Saturday. "The television presenter, a well-known figure on state TV, has been executed, and the Al-Nusra Front has claimed responsibility for the killing," the Observatory's Rami Abdel Rahman told AFP.

(Note:) Contacted by AFP, state TV director Maan Saleh said: "We have no material proof of this killing."

A report by AFP, www.dc4mf.org

Breaking the Arab News: Egypt made al Jazeera and Syria's destroying it

Foreign Policy :: While civil war rages on the Syrian battlefield between regime loyalists and myriad rebel factions, another battle is taking place in the media world. Al Arabiya and Al Jazeera, the two Gulf-based channels that dominate the Arabic news business, have moved to counter Syrian regime propaganda, but have ended up distorting the news almost as badly as their opponents.

Continue to read here Sultan Al Qassemi, www.foreignpolicy.com

BBC journalist back from Syria will take part in live Twitter chat on Syria

Journalism.co.uk :: BBC News is running a live Twitter Q&A with journalist Ian Pannell later today, who recently returned from reporting in Syria. In the live Twitter chat, the first of its kind for BBC News, Pannell will answer questions on his experience of reporting from the country which CNN's Arwa Damon described as "one of the most frustrating, difficult and challenging stories to cover".

Q&A will run for an hour from 5pm (BST) today: Friday, 3 August

A report by Rachel McAthy, www.journalism.co.uk

Syria's video activists give revolution the upper hand in media war

Guardian :: In April last year Ahmad Mohammad left his village in northern Syria filled with its pomegranate trees, figs, and goats, and moved to Lebanon. He came back five months later with a certificate in mobile phone maintenance – a weapon more powerful than Bashar al-Assad's helicopters and tanks. Armed with camera phones activists are posting hundreds of videos on the internet every day documenting the civil war

A report by Luke Harding, www.guardian.co.uk