Here is a round-up of some of the latest writing news in the world of journalism and publishing.
Predictions for Journalism 2025: Communities Over Clicks, Trust Over Traffic
"Audience engagement is dead, audience connection is the future." (Journalism.co.uk)
Wife of Environmental Journalist Killed in Cambodia Says She Feared for his Safety
"The wife of Chhoeung Chheng, an environmental journalist killed in Cambodia, says she had warned him against investigating illegal logging at night." (VOA)
UK: Journalists Strike to Safeguard the World’s Oldest Sunday Newspaper
"The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) joins its affiliate, the National Union of Journalists (NUJ) in the UK and Ireland in fully backing journalists at The Guardian/Observer, who are taking action on 4 December to safeguard the Sunday title that its owner, Guardian Media Group, plans to sell off." (IFJ)
France: IFJ/EFJ Condemn the Summoning of Journalist Ariane Lavrilleux for Possible Indictment
Ariane Lavrilleux, the French journalist who revealed France’s complicity in state crimes in Egypt in November 2021 has been summoned for possible indictment for “appropriation and disclosure of a national defence secret”. (IFJ)
War Leaves Scars on Lebanese Publishing
"On the evening of October 20, Mohamed Hadi, of Dar al Rafidain publishing house, saw one of his five branches destroyed… A few weeks earlier, on September 28, Jihad Baydoun of Dar al Kotob al Ilmiyah, saw his 7,500-square-meter (80,729.3 sq-ft.) warehouse spanning two underground floors destroyed by an airstrike." (Publishers Weekly)
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