The Daily IIJ

Le Réseau ouest africain des journalistes pour l’édification de la Paix au Bénin (WANJOP-Bénin) dispose depuis quelques mois de son journal. Ainsi, après plusieurs initiatives en faveur de la paix et les droits humains, ce réseau créé par des journalistes issus des pays membres de la CEDEAO a décidé de mettre sur pied le journal [...]

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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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Some journalists in Germany have expressed dissatisfaction with the responses received from government spokespeople during the Bundespressekonferenz (BPK). BPK, the German term for Federal Press Conference, is a platform created by parliamentary correspondents in 1949 to enable them to access information from politicians.

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 “Not surprisingly, while India continued to have famines under British rule right up to independence …they disappeared suddenly with the establishment of a multiparty democracy and a free press,” Amartya Sen, winner of the Nobel Prize for Economics from India, argues in his book Democracy as a Universal Value. Mr Sen says that democracy and [...]

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The leak of classified documents and U.S. diplomatic cables in 2010 initiated a debate over the impact of WikiLeaks on mainstream media. One year and many leaked documents later, can we say if WikiLeaks has really changed traditional media outlets? However, the question is: which has really changed in the end?

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Journalists have the responsibility to convey information to the public – information that journalists themselves first need to be able to access. A Freedom of Information Act can provide a legal guarantee for such access to government information, provided this information does not invade anybody’s privacy, reveal trade secrets or compromise a nation’s security.

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Five Years On, Chief Ebrima Manneh Still Missing It has been exactly five years Thursday, since Gambian journalist Mr Chief Ebrima Manneh went missing and separated from his family where he was a breadwinner. Chief Manneh, who disappeared since July 7, 2006, was allegedly whisked away from his office, the pro-government Daily Observer newspaper in [...]

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President Mwai Kibaki on Friday launched a key website making Kenya the first country in sub saharan Africa to offer loads of government data to its citizens Citizens can now access data and participate in constitutional implementation process as well as hold the government accountable, President Kibaki said. The government has released several large datasets, [...]

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