The Daily IIJ

Maldives Broadcasting Corporation (MBC) issues broadcasting license to Islamic Foundation of the Maldives (IFM) – the largest Islamic organization in the Maldives – on Thursday to establish a television channel. Addressing the press at IFM office, the popular preacher Sheikh Ibrahim Fareed Ahmed, also the vice president of IFM scholars council said the license was [...]

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The majority leader of Parliament Honourable S.B.B. Dumbuya has attacked members of the fourth estate. He did this on Thursday at Parliament Building  when the Speaker Of Parliament requested that only ten journalists should go into office. The journalists had gone to drop a petition letter for the Freedom Of Information Bill to be passed.  [...]

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Eynulla Fatullayev, an Azerbaijani journalist and human rights activist, has been named the winner of the 2012 UNESCO/Guillermo Cano World Press Freedom Prize by UNESCO’s Director-General, Irina Bokova.  He was nominated for the award by an independent international jury. Read more http://www.globalnewsreel.com/2012/04/azerbaijani-journalist-named-laureate.html

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The citizen journalists of InsightShare or Rising Voices believe in the best of all possible worlds: a world in which the disenfranchised rise their voices.

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The Spanish blogger Judith Torrea writes about Ciudad Juárez, a Mexican city on the US-border severely affected by drug trafficking and homicides. She was awarded the Reporters Without Borders BOB Award 2011 during the Global Media Conference. An interview about journalistic passion and fear.

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Carceral states like North Korea represent some of the last information vacuums on earth. Activists risk a lot to offer an alternative view to state propaganda. Successfully: Even the quest for freedom in the Arab countries didn’t go unnoticed behind the fences of Kim Country.

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Paru aux éditions Sinaï, le livre « Abdoulaye Issa, Trop tôt à Setto » a été officiellement lancé par son auteur, le jeudi 1er septembre, en présence du parrain de la cérémonie, Robert Dossou, d’anciens collaborateurs de l’illustre disparu et d’un parterre d’invités de marques.

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Did you know that one of the founders of the International Institute for Journalism (IIJ), Axel Springer, founded Europe’s most successful paper, Bild in 1952? With a circulation of more than three million, Bild is the biggest German tabloid newspaper and one of the 230 newspapers and magazines published by the Axel Springer publishing house. [...]

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When the German press agency dpa was set up after World War II, it “started at zero”, as today’s news editor Martin Romanczyk puts it. The organisation lacked everything that is necessary to set up a successful news operation: Money, communications, equipments, papers and office space. Nowadays, dpa is the biggest news agency in Germany [...]

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Six decades of initiating and reporting political scandals, exposing corruption and still going strong: This is the story of Der Spiegel (English: mirror), the German weekly magazine that has risen to become one of Europe’s most successful political magazine and has kept politicians in Berlin on their toes.

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