StarsandStripes.com: US military terminates PR contract for background checks on journalists
September 1st, 2009Posted by Judith Townend in Editors' pick, Online Journalism, Press freedom and ethics
Following its story that the US government is using a PR firm to run background checks on journalists sent on embedded assignments with the US military, Stars and Stripes now reports that the contract will be cancelled.
“The U.S. military is canceling its contract with a controversial private firm that was producing background profiles of journalists seeking to cover the war that graded their past work as ‘positive,’ ‘negative’ or ‘neutral,’” Stars and Stripes has learned.
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September 1st, 2009 at 5:13 pm
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