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Entries Tagged as 'Press Freedom'

Attack on Journalists in Bangladesh, rising day by day

May 22nd, 2012 · 1 Comment

  Published this picture journalist face false case You see the picture. Someone is shooting at people. He is not a criminal or a cinema hero or villain. Giyous Uddin Ahamed a parliament member (MP) of ruling party Alwami League. On 19 may 2012 people blocked his road for setting up police station, agitated people [...]

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Tags: Political reporting · Press Freedom

MPS HELD PRE-LEGISLATIVE MEETING ON FOI BILL

May 18th, 2012 · No Comments

Members of Parliament (MPs) hold pre-legislative meeting on the Freedom of Information Bill yesterday at the Committee Room I, Parliament Building Tower Hill in Freetown. Presenting the Bill to MPs, the Deputy Secretary in the Ministry of Information and Communication,  Kwame Yankson said that the bill is for every Sierra Leonean to access to information [...]

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Islamic Foundation of the Maldives obtains license to broadcast TV channel

May 12th, 2012 · No Comments

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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Tags: Media Ethics · Media Landscapes · Press Freedom

“New Drama” on Journalist Couple Murder in Bangladesh.

April 24th, 2012 · No Comments

After 73 days of murder investigation officer get permission to exhume the bodies of journalist couple Sagar Sarowar and his wife Meherun Runi from their graves for second autopsy. Today court of Bangladesh gives this permission. After this order, people start criticism comment on Face Book, Twitter and other on line media regarding this issue.

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Tags: Press Freedom · Sneak In

‘Journalistic Landscape Is Very Critical To Our Work’ … ACC Boss

April 16th, 2012 · No Comments

Head of the Anti Corruption Commission in Sierra Leone Joseph F. Kamara has said in Freetown that the journalistic landscape that is very critical to their work.

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YJAG Trains College Press Corps on Basic Journalism

February 23rd, 2012 · No Comments

The Gambia College Press Club recently organised a day-long training on “Basic Journalism” for its members at the College campus in Brikama, the regional capital of the West Coast Region. The training, facilitated by the Young Journalists Association of The Gambia (YJAG), was aimed at introducing the press club members to the fundamentals of journalism [...]

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Promotion of peace and Human rights in West Africa: WANJOP-Bénin has its own newspaper

September 27th, 2011 · No Comments

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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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.

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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.

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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.

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Tags: Media Landscapes · Political reporting · Press Freedom