But the charges are still standing — the editor faces trial in September — and so are brutal Mubarak-era press laws, which need to be abolished.
As their offices were destroyed in an arson attack for accusing the military dictator of squandering millions, the editor faced arrest or exile.
The former Mirror editor faced a backlash for "slut-shaming" Sarandon and provoked further ire by telling "furious feminists" to "pipe down", claiming Sarandon wanted to be sexualised by wearing the outfit.
The former Mirror editor faced a backlash after responding to a tweet from Marc Lamont Hill by claiming millions of white lives are also "devalued" and treated "appallingly" across the world.
In Molly Smith Meltzer's "CLOSE UP SPACE," which opens on Monday in a Manhattan Theater Club production, Mr. Pierce portrays a harried (and, needless to say, fastidious) book editor facing a slew of professional and personal slings and arrows, including a killer deadline and a star writer about to walk out on him.
Former Independent on Sunday political editor Jane Merrick said Kuenssberg's questioning of what the results meant for Corbyn was justified and the petition was ridiculous, but that the BBC's first female political editor faced an extra layer of sexist criticism.
On Colin Myler Josh Hallidayy writes that Colin Myler, the New York Daily News editor, faces criticism from Lord Justice Leveson over what the judge suggests was a failure to fully investigate suspicions of wider phone hacking at the News of the World when he took over as editor in 2007.
The latest addition to the field is The Proposal, in which Sandra Bullock plays a "high-powered book editor" facing deportation to her native Canada (she looks amazing in her fitted black suit and high heels in the poster, but far more sharply dressed than any book editor I've ever met).
Told by a friend that I was writing this article, Dündar, the Turkish editor facing more than five years in prison, emailed: "During this entire saga, it has particularly attracted my attention that the British government preferred not to utter even a single word.
