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 [...]
Entries Tagged as 'Media Landscapes'
Islamic Foundation of the Maldives obtains license to broadcast TV channel
May 12th, 2012 · No Comments
Tags: Media Ethics · Media Landscapes · Press Freedom
“I Will Not Help To Pass The FOI Bill” …APC MAJORITY LEADER
May 4th, 2012 · No Comments
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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Azerbaijani journalist named laureate of 2012 world press freedom prize
April 18th, 2012 · No Comments
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
Tags: Media Landscapes
A grassroots revolution
September 22nd, 2011 · No Comments
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.
Tags: Climate Change · Environment · Media Ethics · Media Landscapes · Press Freedom
“Ciudad Juárez taught me to live”
September 17th, 2011 · No Comments
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.
Tags: Gender Issues · Media Ethics · Media Landscapes · Online Journalism · Political reporting · Press Freedom
Messages into the void
September 14th, 2011 · No Comments
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.
Tags: Media Landscapes · Political reporting · Press Freedom
Littérature: Edouard Loko lance officiellement « Abdoulaye Issa, trop tôt à Setto »
September 8th, 2011 · No Comments
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.
Tags: Media Landscapes
The biggest and most famous
August 11th, 2011 · No Comments
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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New challenges for German Press Agency
August 11th, 2011 · No Comments
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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Challenged but not crushed: Der Spiegel
August 9th, 2011 · No Comments
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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