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Europe | U.K. | Media

Rebekah Brooks to return as News Corp UK chief – report

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The former News of the World editor quit as UK chief executive four years ago amid the phone-hacking scandal. She was later cleared of any wrongdoing. Her re-appointment could be confirmed next month, the Financial Times said. Campaign group Hacked Off said it was a sign of an "unreformed, unrepentant press", but a former Times executive editor said hacking was in the past. Mrs Brooks edited both the Sun and the NoW in a long career at Rupert Murdoch's company. She resigned as UK chief executive in July 2011 in the wake of the phone-hacking scandal at the NoW, which eventually clos
Middle East | Iran | Media

Iran’s Female Ninjas File a Lawsuit: Not Every Iranian Is Out to Kill Us

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Iranian women do not have it very easy in life, which is maybe why 3,500 of them decided to learn the martial art of ninjutsu, modeled after Japan's ancient ninjas. The practice allows them empowerment and independence in a society that wants to deny them both. But now Iran's female ninjas face another hardship: Western media portraying them as "assassins" who want to kill "foreign invaders." They're not, and the media fight over the mischaracterization reveals -- and maybe worsens -- how the West and Iran misunderstand one another. In February, Reuters sent Caren Firouz to photograph an al
International | Culture

Charting five of culture’s most radical women

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From M.I.A to a surrealist feminist photographer and the first black female aviator, designer Claire Barrow is set on celebrating high flying females Designed by Jamie Reid and printed by Ditto Press, Claire Barrow’s High Flyers zine is a comic-book manifesto for her label’s aesthetic. Juxtaposing early female aviators (“[They] fought stereotypes of what women at work should be,” says Barrow) with the bathetic grind of the 9 to 5, it insists on the inner strength of the modern-day woman at work. After last season’s dystopian mythmaking, AW15 staked a battleground closer to
International | Intergrity

Global fact-checkers investigate claims about women

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An informal network of nonpartisan fact-checkers have collaborated again in recent months for a "factcheckathon," this time fact-checking claims about women for International Women’s Day. Different fact-checkers looked at claims about women’s health, wealth and other topics. Below are brief summaries of the various organization’s fact-checks; see the group’s collected work here. PolitiFact’s PunditFact project fact-checked a graphic from that said, "ISIS LURES WOMEN WITH KITTENS, NUTELLA." ISIS supporters create and promote propaganda messages that are more slickly produced and re

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