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UNESCO awards its world press freedom prize to all Palestinian journalists
https://www.france24.com/en/middle-east/20240503-unesco-awards-its-world-press-freedom-prize-to-all-palestinian-journalists…

UNESCO awards its world press freedom prize to all Palestinian journalists
UNESCO on Thursday awarded its world press freedom prize to all Palestinian journalists covering the war in Gaza, where Israel has been battling Hamas for more than six months.

FCCC survey: reporting conditions in China have improved since the pandemic, but foreign journalists still face visa problems, surveillance, and harassment (Voice of America)
https://www.voanews.com/a/covering-china-brings-surveill…

Covering China brings surveillance, harassment, report finds
Foreign Correspondents Club of China finds journalists able to travel more since pandemic, but visa issues and obstruction restrict coverage

Covariance Operator Estimation via Adaptive Thresholding
Omar Al-Ghattas, Daniel Sanz-Alonso
https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.18562 https://

Covariance Operator Estimation via Adaptive Thresholding
This paper studies sparse covariance operator estimation for nonstationary Gaussian processes with sharply varying marginal variance and small correlation lengthscale. We introduce a covariance operator estimator that adaptively thresholds the sample covariance function using an estimate of the variance components. Building on recent results from empirical process theory, we derive an operator norm bound on the estimation error in terms of the sparsity level of the covariance and the expected s…

DW News on X: "Authorities in Burkina Faso have suspended Deutsche Welle (DW) and several other international media outlets for covering allegations of mass killings by the military. https://t.co/Fy5WuCfcLi" / X

Burkina Faso blocks DW website over massacre coverage
Deutsche Welle's management has called for the website to "be unblocked immediately." Burkina Faso's regulatory authority suspended access to the DW site after coverage of alleged massacres at two villages.

United Methodists endorse change that could give regions more say on LGBTQ and other issues
https://religionnews.com/2024/04/26/united-methodists-endorse-change-that-could-give-regions-more-say-on-lgb…

United Methodists endorse change that could give regions more say on LGBTQ and other issues
(AP) — The plan would create multiple regional conferences — one for the United States and others covering areas ranging from the Philippines to Europe to Africa.

DOJ Inspector General Exposes Critical Failures in Federal Prisons Leading to Inmate Deaths | Atlanta Daily World
https://atlantadailyworld.com/2024/03/10/doj-inspector-general-exposes-critical-f…

DOJ Inspector General Exposes Critical Failures in Federal Prisons Leading to Inmate Deaths | Atlanta Daily World
  By Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire Senior National Correspondent @StacyBrownMedia A scathing report released by the Department of Justice (DOJ) Inspector General Michael E. Horowitz unveiled a disturbing pattern of operational and managerial deficiencies within the Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP), shedding light on the alarming rate of inmate deaths. The report, covering the years … Continued