A Journalism roundup: Al Jazeera America and more…

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Not without EU, says Financial Times… A foreign policy roundup…

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Should they publish or not? A Journalism roundup follows

Financial Times pulls Amnesty Vs. Shell ad

from Osocio Weblog by Tom Megginson

The Guardian reports that The Financial Times made a last-minute decision not to publish this ad, placed by Amnesty International:

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According to the article, the paper left it until the last possible moment to pull the hard-hitting ad, which was due to appear today to coincide with Shell?s annual meeting in London.

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