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Golden Pen of Freedom awarded to Pakistan newspaper editor
Najaam Sethi will receive the WAN prize in March
Posted by Alexander de Vivie on 16/12/08Met Police will investigate officer who grabbed photographic equipment at Greek Embassy Protests
Police officer filmed while obstructing video filming
Posted by Judith Townend on 12/12/08Journalism.co.uk launches two new pages to track job cuts and international press freedom
Use our two new pages to keep up to date on the media downturn and international issues
Posted by Judith Townend on 12/12/08@press_freedom: Tracking media freedom and international journalism around the world
Threats and restrictions for journalists and the media around the globe
Posted by Judith Townend on 12/12/08Reuters freelance photographer kept in US prison in Iraq
US military forces extend detention of Ibrahim Jassam Mohammed, despite Iraqi court ordering his release
Posted by Alexander de Vivie on 09/12/08Most jailed journalists work online, CPJ census finds
Of the 125 media workers in prison on December 1 2008, 56 were online journalists, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ)
Posted by Laura Oliver on 05/12/08Reporting restrictions in Baby P case make public think press is covering up, says Society of Editors head
Baby P case is prime example why UK Contempt of Court law needs reformation, says Bob Satchwell
Posted by Judith Townend on 04/12/08Murdered journalist's family speak out against BBC handling of case
Journalism.co.uk talks to Kate Peyton's siblings post-inquest
Posted by Judith Townend on 28/11/08Free places for journalists on refugee issues training course
The Exiled Journalists Network will train journalists in covering asylum and refugee issues
Posted by Judith Townend on 26/11/08'What Meyer didn't say: a speech ignoring the real shortcomings of press self-regulation'
Martin Moore, director of the Media Standards Trust
Posted by Martin Moore on 24/11/08News ombudsmen more important than ever in web environment, says Siobhain Butterworth
Journalism.co.uk catches up with the Guardian's readers' editor
Posted by Judith Townend on 24/11/08Shortlist announced for Deutsche Welle's blogging competition
176 entrants shortlisted for awards to promote press freedom
Posted by Stuart Goodwin on 28/10/08New site Demotix brings together citizen and pro journalists, says founder
Site will broker deals for news videos and images with mainstream media outlets
Posted by Laura Oliver on 02/09/08Alive in Baghdad blogger Brian Conley imprisoned by Chinese police
Conley and photojournalist Jeffrey Rae were detained while photographing pro-Tibet activists
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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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Media Workers Against the War leads campaign in support of Iraqi shoe-thrower
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