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[IJNet] Competition for Russian writers seeks works on WWII

09/02/2010 19:03

Professional Russian writers, journalists and historians from Russia, New Independent States, Western and Eastern countries are invited to participate in a writing competition with the theme of the...

[IJNet] Manship Prize to honor innovative use of media in the U.S.

09/02/2010 16:49

The 2010 Manship Prize, sponsored by the Louisiana State University School of Mass Communication, recognizes an individual or organization based in the United States that has encouraged and enhance...

[Global Voices Advocacy] Libya blocks access to Youtube and independent websites

09/02/2010 14:43

On January 24th, 2010, Libya Telecom and Technology (LTT) has blocked access to the popular video sharing website Youtube and to several Libyans based abroad political and independent websites such...

[Global Voices Online] China: Let Feng Zhenghu come home, to jail time

09/02/2010 10:56

Feng Zhenghu's 92-day protest in Narita airport has ended and he now has a flight back to Shanghai booked for this Friday, just in time for Chinese New Year, but updates [zh] to his Twitter account...

[RSF] Iran - Number of journalists and netizens in prison now tops 65

09/02/2010 9:19

Reporters Without Borders deplores the fact that, as a result of arrests in the past few days, the number of journalists and netizens detained in Iran now exceeds 65. “This is a figure that is with...

[IJNet] Making news sustainable: Should we charge for in-depth reporting?

05/02/2010 17:51

Around the world, news organizations are beginning to charge readers for access to certain content. Britain’s The Economist, for instance, provides specialized investigative reports for a fee throu...

[CPJ] Kazakh court censors at request of president’s son-in-law

05/02/2010 16:16

New York, February 4, 2010—The Committee to Protect Journalists condemns a court order issued on Monday that banned all Kazakh media and printing houses from publishing “any information that discre...

[RSF] Vietnam - Writer who was assaulted gets three-and-a-half-year sentence on trumped-up assault charge

05/02/2010 16:15

Reporters Without Borders condemns the three-and-a-half-year sentence which a Hanoi court passed today on writer and human rights activist Tran Khai Thanh Thuy on a trumped-up charge of assault. An...

[IFJ] Monitoring Change in Journalism - What's New

05/02/2010 14:51

5 February Sweden : Over 100 Staff Made Redundant at Dagens Nyheter Dagens Nyheter (DN), one of the most popular daily newspapers in Sweden, announced plans to cut more than 100 jobs after it re...

[RSF] Mauritania - Court imposes new two-year sentence on website editor

05/02/2010 11:04

Reporters Without Borders is outraged by the harsh, two-year jail sentence which a court passed yesterday on Hanevy Ould Dehah, the editor of the website Taqadoumy, at the end of an incomprehensibl...

[IJNet] Tips available in Arabic on writing for radio

04/02/2010 21:33

Arab journalists working in radio broadcasting can access a list of tips on how to write for the radio, published by the BBC Arabic Service. The tips explore the flexible aspects of the Arabic lan...

[CPJ] Egyptian journalist sentenced to prison for defamation

04/02/2010 21:13

New York, February 4, 2009—The Committee to Protect Journalists condemns an Egyptian criminal court’s decision on Tuesday to sentence a journalist to one year in prison and a fine of 60,000 Egyptia...

[CPJ] New Iraq media rules reflect return to authoritarianism

04/02/2010 21:11

New York, February 4, 2010—An Iraqi government plan to impose restrictive rules on broadcast news media represents an alarming return to authoritarianism, the Committee to Protect Journalists said ...

[IJNet] Competition seeks works from young Russian photojournalists

03/02/2010 21:10

Russian photojournalists up to 30 years old are encouraged to submit works to a competition aimed to encourage younger photojournalists, called the "Young Face of Russia." Deadline: April 12. Poten...

[RSF] Spain - Court urged to acquit journalists in trial of Basque daily Egunkaria

03/02/2010 17:37

Reporters Without Borders calls on the court that is trying five journalists who ran the Basque-language daily Euskaldunon Egunkaria to acquit of them all charges of links to the Basque armed separ...