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Protests in Iran continue, but whose news should we trust?
Critics continue to slam Iranian government owned Press TV
Posted by Judith Townend on 22/07/09Iran releases British freelance reporter Jason Fowden
Freelancer released while Newsweek reporter still held, according to reports
Posted by Damian Shaibi on 06/07/09Fire Brigades Union monthly magazine takes away TUC prize
Firefighter magazine and BECTU were among the winners at last night's ceremony
Posted by Judith Townend on 02/07/09WAN and IFRA will merge, O'Reilly confirms in HuffPo interview
Germany-based IFRA and the World Association of Newspapers will join forces as one organisation
Posted by Judith Townend on 22/06/09Frontline Club launches broadsheet for independent journalism
Frontline: A Broadsheet will feature international and domestic coverage away from the mainstream
Posted by Laura Oliver on 12/06/09Difficult to get Western media attention on Kenyan killings and disappearances, says WikiLeaks editor
Julian Assange was awarded the Amnesty International New Media prize for the leak of a Kenyan Human Rights report
Posted by Judith Townend on 05/06/09'Freelancing gives freedom to investigate,' says former Telegraph reporter
Ben Bland on how working on a retainer can limit your journalism
Posted by Judith Townend on 03/06/09'I am a hostage in Qatar and this is my Twitter SOS:' Philippe Bogaert's story told in 140 characters
A Belgian broadcast manager claims his employer has held him 'hostage' since October 2008
Posted by Judith Townend on 03/06/09Amnesty International Media Awards 2009 shortlist announced
Journalists' efforts in human rights reporting are recognised across ten categories
Posted by Judith Townend on 06/05/09Sri Lankan editor Lasantha Wickrematunge awarded UNESCO world press freedom prize
Wickrematunge given award posthumously after his assassination
Posted by Charlotte Linter on 07/04/09Guardian's four-year FOI campaign against 'secret justice' reaches tribunal
Request to release information about misbehaving judges is a call for transparency, says Rob Evans
Posted by Laura Oliver on 17/03/09MediaCloud explained: 'A platform for quantitative research on media'
The Berkman Center for Internet & Society has launched its new media tracking project
Posted by Judith Townend on 12/03/09Sustaining a free press: Jack Myers' mission
Publisher using own assets to back media groups that develop alternative business models
Posted by Laura Oliver on 03/03/09Media Standards Trust and PCC clash over report consultation
MST says regulator was contacted before publishing critical findings
Posted by Judith Townend on 09/02/09Bloggers need new ways of organising themselves, argues Clay Shirky
Author of 'Here Comes Everybody' says bloggers need 'higher degree of social coordination' to scrutinise local government
Posted by Michael Haddon on 05/02/09Police shouldn't control press accreditation, says denied NY blogger
Publisher David Wallis says his lawsuit against the NYPD is for the recognition of online journalists
Posted by Judith Townend on 21/01/09Government email plans are threat to press freedom, says privacy expert
Email database would have 'chilling effect' on journalism, says David Banisar
Posted by Judith Townend on 16/01/09Mission GlobalPost: To 'fill the enormous void' in foreign reporting
Co-founder Philip Balboni on the new online news agency's launch in 45 countries
Posted by Laura Oliver on 12/01/09Does a media blackout really help the release of kidnapped journalists?
Journalism.co.uk talks to Joel Simon, executive director of the Committee to Protect Journalists
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#wef12 - WAN-IFRA publishes 'report on violence against Mexico's press'
WAN-IFRA has this week published a report called “a death threat to freedom”, which looks at “violence against Mexico’s press”. The report was published on Tuesday (4 September), a day after the organisation’s World Editors Forum presented the Golden Pen of Freedom to Mexican journalist Anabel Hernandez. The report calls on the government to “take [...]
Posted by Rachel Bartlett on 5 September 2012Hugh Grant: Leveson inquiry has shone 'disinfectant sunlight' into 'infected corners'
Hugh Grant, Tom Watson MP and president of the National Union of Journalists Donnacha Delong speak at a rally calling for media reform
Posted by Sarah Marshall on 18 May 2012Voice of America: China's Foreign Ministry questioned on Al Jazeera journalist visa issue
Voice of America has published what it says is a transcript of questions put to the spokesman for China's Foreign Ministry, in relation to Al Jazeera English's report that its China correspondent Melissa Chan had her visa renewal application 'refused'
Posted by Rachel Bartlett on 9 May 2012Index: Hungary faces squeeze on freedoms
Sándor Orbán, the director of the South East European Network for Professionalisation of Media, reports for Index on Censorship on the raft of new laws passed by the ruling Fidesz party and the threat to civil liberties and media freedom
Posted by Joel Gunter on 6 January 2012Pakistan tops another 2011 journalist death toll
The International Federation of Journalists describes 2011 as "another bloody year for media"
Posted by Rachel Bartlett on 3 January 2012Journalists shot dead in Somalia and Russia
The founder of independent Russian newspaper Chernovik has been killed, as has a journalist working for a TV station in Somali
Posted by Rachel Bartlett on 19 December 2011Reporters Without Borders secretary-general to step down in new year
Press freedom organisation Reporters Without Borders announced this week that its secretary-general Jean-François Julliard will step down on 31 January
Posted by Rachel Bartlett on 14 December 2011Two-year anniversary of massacre of 30 journalists in Philippines
Today is also the inaugural International Day to End Impunity
Posted by Sarah Marshall on 23 November 2011'Silencing the messenger is all too often the name of the game': Mark Austin speaks at St Bride's
The address given by ITV News at Ten presenter Mark Austin at St Bride's Church yesterday (Wednesday), for the service to commemorate journalists who have died while covering conflicts across the world.
Posted by Rachel Bartlett on 10 November 2011Index: Take action to end impunity
This coming 23 November will be the second anniversary of the 2009 Maguindanao Massacre in the Phillippines, in which 34 journalists were murdered during election related violence in the country. Last year, on the first anniversary, there was a “global day of action” to commemorate the killings. This year, the second anniversary will also be [...]
Posted by Joel Gunter on 9 November 2011#wef11: 'News industry is in the vortex of a fast changing world'
WAN-IFRA's new president calls for self regulation of the press to maintained in the wake of the phone-hacking scandal
Posted by Rachel Bartlett on 13 October 2011BBC news chief calls for pressure on Iran after threats to journalists' families
BBC issues public statement after journalists' families arrested and harassed in Iran
Posted by Sarah Marshall on 5 October 2011Guardian: How Luke Harding became the reporter Russia hated
The Guardian’s former Moscow correspondent Luke Harding has a lively piece up on his time as the city’s harassed-western-journalist-in-chief. Ahead of the publication of a book by Harding on his quarrels with Russia’s security forces, he describes being intimidated and having his flat regularly broken into, and his deportation and Russia’s u-turn in letting him [...]
Posted by Joel Gunter on 26 September 2011New York Times: No Justice for Anna Politkovskaya
Yesterday’s New York Times editorial was devoted to the case of murdered Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya. Politkovskaya, who became known for her fearless investigative reporting of social issues in Russia and human rights abuses in Chechnya, was killed in her apartment building in 2006. Five years on, no one has been convicted of her murder. [...]
Posted by Joel Gunter on 14 September 2011BBC: Detained reporter is 'physically and psychologically frail'
BBC Central Asian Service journalist Urunboy Usmonov has been detained by Tajikistan authorities since June 13
Posted by Rachel Bartlett on 29 June 2011Index on Censorship: Russian journalist defeats libel claim
Kommersant's political correspondent Oleg Kashin, who spent five days in a coma after an attack, defeated a libel claim after speculating on the identity of his attackers
Posted by Rachel Bartlett on 28 June 2011Reporters Without Borders: Life sentence for Bahraini blogger
Two Bahraini bloggers handed long jail sentences, according to Reporters Without Borders
Posted by Sarah Marshall on 23 June 2011BBC and CPJ: Mexican journalist, wife and son shot dead
It believed Mexican journalist Miguel Angel Lopez Velasco, who wrote for Notiver, has been shot dead along with his wife and son
Posted by Rachel Bartlett on 21 June 2011Index: Polish journalist faces four years in prison for 'insulting the president' of Belarus
Andrey Pochobut of Polish newspaper GazetaWyborcza, faces a prison sentence for defamation and 'insulting the president' of Belarus
Posted by Joel Gunter on 17 June 2011Reporters Without Borders: Journalist killed in Brazil on World Press Freedom day
Press freedom organisation Reporters Without Borders (RSF) reports that a journalist, Valério Nascimento, was shot and killed in Brazil on Tuesday. The day of the shooting was also the day the world shone a light on the dangers and issues facing journalists across the world, for World Press Freedom day. “Nascimento’s murder, which took place [...]
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