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Journalists from across the Arab world, North America and Europe are invited to participate in an online training course entitled “Freedom of expression in the digital age,” which will be held Dece...
Filmmakers from around the world are encouraged to submit short films and documentaries to an international film competition being held in Jaipur, India. Deadline: December 31. The Jaipur Internati...
A host of communication undergraduate and graduate degree programs are now available at New Zealand's Auckland University of Technology (AUT). The deadline for applications for next semester is Jan...
Around the world, digital media ventures are successfully embracing new technology while providing engaging content and maintaining high journalistic standards. Making a profit off of these venture...
In a letter addressed to journalists' unions around the world, the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has called on all journalists who have had their books scanned by Google through its...
Journalism and communication researchers from around the world are invited to an international conference on "Journalism Research in the Public Interest," which will explore what the field of journ...
On October 20th, 2009, Zouhaïer Makhlouf, a Tunisia Human rights activist and correspondent of Assabil Online website has been arrested for publishing a video report online about the environmental...
The Ministry of Transport and Communications (MTC) has maintained its arbitrary ban on Radio La Voz de Bagua, a station based in Peru's northern Amazonas region, refusing on 15 September to allow i...
"The Iraqi journalist who threw his shoes at former President George W. Bush was released Tuesday after nine months in prison, and he said Iraqi security forces tortured him with beatings, whipping...
New York, September 11, 2009—Two hundred tax agents raided the offices of Argentina’s largest daily, Clarín, on Wednesday after the paper ran a cover story alleging that a government agency imprope...
Unlike some neighbouring countries, the internet in Oman is rarely censored by the government to block websites that criticize the authorities. There are blogs and forums that explicitly publish l...
As Jamaican reggae artist Buju Banton suffers from the cancellation of international shows thanks to his homophobic lyrics, The Wickedest Time says: “I don't get offended by the music, mainly becau...
Reporters Without Borders and the Burma Media Association condemn the indefinite closure of the Rangoon-based weekly Phoenix by the military government's censorship board on 21 August. The weekly i...
[ See Monitoring Change Archive: May] [ See Monitoring Change Archive: April] [ See Monitoring Change Archive: March] 1 st September US: Newspaper Ad Sales Plunged 29% According to the Newspaper ...
Journalists, students and members of civil society aged between 18 and 30 from the 56 member countries of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE) are encouraged to submit vid...
Spanish-speaking journalists younger than 25-years-old in Latin America and throughout the world have until September 30 to enter a competition that aims to express the concept of freedom and its o...
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and United States journalists' groups today condemned military vetting of journalists covering the Afghanistan conflict to see if they are sympathe...
A netizen Xiong Zhongjun has been detained by Hubei police for questioning the identity of a car accident driver on the Internet. The 10-day detention started on 21 of August according to Xinhua re...
"The International Press Institute (IPI) is saddened at the death in prison on Monday of Azeri journalist Novruzali Mammadov. The 68-year-old former editor-in-chief of Tolishi Sado (“Voice of Talys...
A college lecturer is facing disciplinary action after showing erotic material to his students. John Ozimek wonders what the problem is Just what is it about sex that causes such apoplexy amongst t...
Reporters Without Borders reiterates its condemnation of the Stalin-style prosecutions and trials of critics of President Mahmoud Ahmadinedjad's reelection that are taking place in Tehran. “The def...
Club Soda and Salt is infuriated with Trinidad and Tobago's “unquestioning media”, maintaining that instead of asking probing questions, “they are meeting with Manning to learn how to sit down and ...
With so much activity on Twitter these days, you may be one of a growing number of people who feel that Google, Yahoo and other traditional search engines aren't as current as they should be. For e...
Reporters Without Borders strongly condemns the court injunction which Dutch Crown Prince Willem-Alexander and his wife, Princess Maxima, have sought against the US news agency, the Associated Pres...
After considerable testing, Barbados Free Press concludes that “both broadband and dial-up access to [the blog's] website is being ‘throttled' on a rotating basis by Barbados-based Internet provide...
"The families of Laura Ling and Euna Lee are overjoyed by the news of their pardon. We are so grateful to our government: President Obama, Secretary Clinton and the U.S. State Department for their ...
"While demanding that North Korea release two Bay Area reporters sentenced to prison, the United States has detained a Reuters cameraman without charges in Iraq since September - one of numerous fo...
Geoff Andrews writes: "What the reception [of evidence surrounding Berlusconi's behaviour] confirms is something that is now also becoming apparent to the wider world: that Silvio Berlusconi presid...
"A Beijing judge has ruled that an internet hosting company was wrong to close a prominent government critic's website over allegedly illegal content, in the first-ever case won by a victim of inte...
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has condemned attacks by Yemeni authorities on independent media which have been seized after the government accused them of publishing material ...
"Fiji's coup leader, Commodore Frank Bainimarama, yesterday cracked down on the media, installing military censors in newsrooms and ordering the expulsion of foreign journalists from the Pacific is...
New York, April 1, 2009--Police in the western city of Kaliningrad should drop trumped-up bribery charges against Arseny Makhlov, the founder of the independent weekly Dvornik, and allow him to wor...
"Police detained a webmaster at one of Thailand's top online newspapers on Friday after they said they found a reader's comments offensive to the Thai monarchy posted on the site."
"The Government has agreed to repeal the contentious sections of the Communications Amendment Act 2008 popularly known as the Media bill, Attorney General Amos Wako announced on Friday."
Bangkok, March 6, 2009--On the same day that Thai Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva told a meeting of news editors of his intention to restore Thailand's press freedom reputation, police officials r...
"Minister for Information and Broadcasting, Sherry Rehman Tuesday said safety of journalists working in the conflict zones was a priority issue for government and it wanted to address it immediatel...
On his arrival today at Melbourne airport, a moved Nicolaides thanked his fellow Australians for their support during the more than five months in spent in a Bangkok prison. Reporters Without Borde...
"Four men accused of helping to organise the murder of the Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya were today acquitted by a court in Moscow."
"Over 100 journalists stand against media reform bills. Statement warns against putting broadcasting networks in the hands of big business chaebol and Korea’s three conservative newspapers."
"Margaret Atwood has pulled out of the inauguraul Emirates Airline international festival of literature in the wake of a novelist being blacklisted for potential offence to 'cultural sensitivities'."
Marc Vallee on the new UK terrorism laws arriving on Monday
"Journalists' groups in Brussels Thursday criticized the European Commission for suggesting that reporters may provide cover for potential spies in search of sensitive and classified information ab...
"China's news censors will create a new 'black list' to force out reporters found breaking rules, an official news agency said on Friday, adding to the wary government's tools for media control."
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"Judicial and police harassment of journalists is a major issue not just in authoritarian countries. Czech journalists have been lately busy trying to protect their own fundamental rights - source ...
"The BBC World Service is to suspend its FM programming on the Sri Lankan national broadcaster following a row over censorship."
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) today welcomed the decision of the management at State television and radio to review the contracts of hundreds of employees, including journalists...
Angela Kocherga talks to Poynter about the dangers of reporting from Mexico, particularly around the border cities of Juárez where drug crime and killing are rife, How difficult is it for you, as a...
How will President Barack Obama tackle the Middle East and the United States relationship with the region? That’s the question up for debate tonight at the Frontline Club. We start at 7pm GMT / 11a...
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has today condemned Israeli attacks on journalists in Ramallah in which at least one foreign journalist was injured. Eye-witness reports say that j...
Reporters Without Borders is posting an example of Bolivian hate media on its website as a warning amid the continuing political tension in the country. It consists of passages from the transcripts...
B.V. Seetaram, chairman and chief editor of Chitra Publications, has been arrested by police in the district of Udupi in the southern Indian state of Karnataka.
FrontlineBlogger: "The Zimbabwe government has announced new restrictive measures for media workers working with foreign news organisations. It will cost up to US$4 000 to practice journalism in Zi...
The IFJ today welcomes "the ten-point agreement between the Nepal government and the Federation of Nepali Journalists (FNJ), which led to the cancellation of a nation-wide demonstration over growin...
The International Federation of Journalists ( IFJ) has condemned Israel over an attack on a television station in Gaza during its military offensive against Hamas in the Palestinian Gaza Strip.
Two journalists were among the seven people killed when a suicide bomber blew himself up outside the Government Polytechnic College in Dera Ismail Khan in northern Pakistan, reports the Frontline B...
CPJ reports that Hadil Emad, 25, an editor for Biladi TV, 'was critically wounded after leaving work near a checkpoint on al-Jadriyya Bridge in al-Karrada district of Baghdad, according to local an...
Colin Freeman and José Cendon have been freed after spending 40 days 'in a lawless wilderness of arid mountains and dusty caves, four hours' bumpy drive south-west of Somalia's port city of Boosaas...
Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki in a statement that he had signed into law a controversial media bill imposing new restrictions on the press, reports AFP.
Reporters Without Borders reiterates its call for the release of leading free speech activist Liu Xiaobo (刘晓波), who has been held in a secret location since his arrest on 8 December. Liu was report...
RSF has reiterated its call for the release of leading free speech activist Liu Xiaobo (刘晓波), who has been held in a secret location since his arrest on 8 December. Liu was reportedly placed under ...
Radio Shabelle reporter Hassan Mayow Hassan was gunned down by a member of a pro-government militia in Afgooye, 30 km south of Mogadishu, RSF reports.
It has been officially confirmed that Hossein Derakhshan, an Iranian-Canadian blogger, has been detained in Tehran. Reporters Without Borders calls on the judicial authorities 'to clarify' he has b...
RSF is 'more concerned than ever' about the internet freedom in Thailand, after an announcement that access to more than 2,300 websites was blocked in 2008.
Kazakh authorities must launch a thorough investigation into the stabbing of Artyom Miusov, a reporter with the opposition weekly Taszhargan, the CPJ has said.
Statistics on press freedom for 2008. 'Better figures despite a hostile climate and more internet repression,' RSF says.
Three US mainstream broadcast networks, namely ABC, CBS and NBC, have stopped sending full time correspondents to Iraq. At the same time the channels are trying to bolster their numbers in Afghanis...
Hamza Shahin, a photographer with the Shihab Media Agency in the Gaza Strip, has died of injuries he suffered some two weeks ago when Israeli tanks attacked in the northern part of the Gaza Strip, ...
RSF condemns the Zimbabwean authorities 'kidnap' of journalist and human rights activist Jestina Mukoko in early December. RSF reports that she has been held incommunicado and that authorities are ...
Violations of human rights, and threats to press freedom will continue over the next week, even if many countries are celebrating with festivities. However, this timeline will see limited updates u...
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) 'has condemned three months jail sentences handed down by a court in Algiers against two journalists in a defamation case warning that the judgemen...
"The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) strongly condemns the repeated attacks against offices and personnel of the Himalmedia group of publications, by individuals believed to be associ...
"Reporters Without Borders calls on the judicial authorities to overturn the jail terms that were passed on blogger Omidreza Mirsayafi (http://rooznegaar.blogfa.com) on 15 December, coinciding with...
RSF confirms that three bloggers have been arrested in the past seven weeks: Reda Abderrahman Ali (http://www.elaphblog.com/page.aspx?U=459&page=2), Mohammed Adel (http://43arb.info/meit) and Abdel...
"For the sixth consecutive year, Iraq was the deadliest country in the world for the press, the Committee to Protect Journalists found in its end-of-year analysis. The 11 deaths recorded in Iraq in...
IFJ has said, after completing an emergency mission to Korea, that "the government in Seoul must act urgently over fears for the future of press freedom in the country. "The call is among a number...
"A journalist who disappeared in Zimbabwe on Saturday may be in police custody, journalists in Harare told CPJ."
"Ebenezer Viwami, editor in chief of Alerte Info, was picked up outside a prison in Abidjan, Ivory Coast at the weekend. The Ivorian Internal Affairs and Justice Ministries, said Viwami falsified t...
CPJ reports: "Shanxi public security officials told local journalists on Monday that Guan Jian, a reporter for Beijing-based weekly Wangluo Bao (Network News) who had been missing for 15 days, is i...
"The European Federation of Journalists (EFJ), the regional group of the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ), today expressed great concern about the state of photo journalism in Europe f...
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) says the reporter who threw shoes at United States President George Bush over America's role in Iraq should be set free. His protest "reflected dee...
The World Association of Newspapers (WAN) has 'condemned the absence of press freedom in much of the Arab world and has called on governments in North Africa, the Middle East and the Persian Gulf t...
"The International Federation of Journalists ( IFJ) says the reporter who threw shoes at United States President George Bush over America's role in Iraq should be set free. His protest, says the IF...
There has been "a refusal by a plenary session of the Damascus appeal court to grant journalist and human rights activist Michel Kilo early release. The judges overturned an earlier ruling by the c...
RSF reports that the Tehran prosecutor general Said Mortazavi announced yesterday that the 'special prosecutor’s department for Internet crimes' will henceforth work directly with the intelligence ...
The Committee to Protect Journalists today expressed concern for the welfare of prominent activist and writer Liu Xiaobo, who has not been heard from since authorities detained him in Beijing on Mo...
"A Port-au-Prince court sentenced journalist and press freedom advocate Guyler Delva to one month in prison on Wednesday for defaming a former senator. Delva said he has received death threats he b...
Ohio's Toledo Blade newspaper has gained access to deleted emails from Seneca County commissioners through an 'open records law request'. The Supreme Court ordered officials to search for the missi...
NUJ condemns police treatment of photographers at Greek Embassy
There has been a presidential pardon for a journalist in Iraqi Kurdistan who had been sentenced to six months in prison, in direct violation of the region's press law. CPJ reports: "Adel Hussein,...
Police attempted to stop photographers reporting on a blockade of the Greek Embassy by Greek and British anarchists in London on Monday December 8.
Kenyan editors are demanding the government withdraws a bill from parliament that could give the state powers to raid media houses and seize broadcasting equipments at will.
AllAfrica.com reports via Vanguard that "the publisher of the Niger-Delta Detail and Isoko Detail Newspapers, Mr. Richard Ogbage, has been arrested by police detectives from the Criminal Investigat...
RCFP reports: "After failing to persuade a federal judge of his First Amendment right to protect his confidential sources, Detroit Free Press reporter David Ashenfelter tried a new tactic Monday to...
'You are powerful' released, a video to mark 60 years of the UN Declaration of Human Rights
Trial continues of cyber-dissident Habib Saleh; Reporters Without Borders (RSF)reiterates call for his release. "The first supposedly public hearing in his trial took place before a Damascus court ...
The Kyrgyz state television and radio company KNTR said on Friday that BBC's local radio service and U.S-funded Radio Liberty have been taken off-air, for 'violating' obligations, Reuters reports.
The proposition that UK reporting restrictions which - if broken - would contravene the British Contempt of Court Act, seem increasingly irrelevant.
AP: Two men arrested in connection with kidnap of journalists in northern Somalia. The journalists have still not been named out of concern for their safety.
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