Links to two reports: from MintPress News via Consortium News, and from Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting via ScheerPost, and to an interview from BuzzFeed;  others are accessible by clicking on their names below. (GAZA, SYRIA and UKRAINE entries for this date are HERE, HERE and HERE.) — MCM

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FROM JAN. 3  BBC Middle East editor collaborated with CIA, Mossad, by Alan MacLeod | MintPress News / Consortium News  Raffi Berg, an Englishman who heads the BBC’s Middle East desk, is currently the subject of considerable scrutiny after 13 BBC employees spoke out . . . READ MORE . . .

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FROM JAN. 3  Why didn’t NYT tell us what Ben Smith stood to gain from his media reporting? by Ari Paul | Fairness & Accuracy in Reporting / ScheerPost  In a time of downsizing and consolidation, Ben Smith has had a journalistic career many would envy, as editor-in-chief of BuzzFeed News, media writer for the New York Times, and now as co-founder and editor-in-chief of Semafor. READ MORE . . . Click HERE for transcript of a 2015 interview from BuzzFeed News.