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Jon Gaunt loses high court challenge against Ofcom
Court rules that the Sun Talk radio presenter's interview with councillor Michael Stark was "offensive and abusive"
Posted by Laura Oliver on 13/07/10Photographers claim victory as Home Secretary suspends Section 44 search powers
S44 stop-and-search powers will no longer be used on individuals following European Court ruling
Posted by Rachel Bartlett on 08/07/10Anti-government journalists in Tunisia facing violence and imprisonment, says report
International Press Institute report draws attention to the plight of the country's independent journalists, who face "harassment, physical attack and imprisonment"
Posted by Rachel Bartlett on 08/07/10Impartial international news scarce among developing world's broadcasters, suggests report
New study from the Reuters Institute of Journalism points to a huge investment in state-funded broadcast news in the developing world
Posted by Laura Oliver on 07/07/10Civil liberties group demand police apology over treatment of teenage photographer
The director of Big Brother Watch says the group will support photographer Jules Mattsson if he decides to take legal action
Posted by Rachel Bartlett on 30/06/10Two men arrested for murder of Rwandan journalist; concerns over government involvement remain
Rwanda National Police claim killing was revenge attack linked to 1994 genocide; newspaper editor and press freedom organisation RSF accuse security forces
Posted by Rachel Bartlett on 29/06/10Reporters Without Borders launches first online 'anti-censorship shelter'
Anonymous network's encryption software will provide journalists and bloggers with a secure way to publish online
Posted by Iris Robin on 28/06/10Max Mosley continues fight for prior notification ruling over privacy stories
Former F1 boss argues that newspapers should notify subjects before publishing details about their private lives
Posted by Judith Townend on 21/06/10Thai government agrees to inquiry into journalists' deaths but keeps quiet over CCTV footage
Deputy chief of mission at Thailand's Washington-based embassy tells Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) that former attorney-general Professor Dr Kanit na Nakorn will chair an independent inquiry
Posted by Laura Oliver on 18/06/10ICFJ names Knight International Journalism Award winners
Journalists Daniela Arbex and Tosca Santoso to receive annual prize
Posted by Judith Townend on 16/06/10Shock jock Jon Gaunt goes to high court to fight Ofcom ruling
After securing the right to judicial review, Gaunt is to challenge regulator's findings
Posted by Judith Townend on 15/06/10CPJ calls on Thai PM to investigate killings of foreign journalists
Letter to Prime Minister Abhisit Vejjajiva urges inquiry into deaths and injuries to foreign and local journalists
Posted by Laura Oliver on 08/06/10Press freedom under attack on every continent, reports WAN-IFRA review
Thirty-three journalists have been killed since January 2010, says report
Posted by Judith Townend on 07/06/10NUJ and IFJ demand inquiry into Israeli attack on Gaza flotilla
Foreign journalists deported by Israeli authorities; journalists allege harassment by soldiers
Posted by Judith Townend on 03/06/10Campaigners call on Azerbaijani government to release imprisoned editor
Amnesty International Media Awards 2009 winner remains in prison - despite European court's demand for release
Posted by Judith Townend on 03/06/10Green party leader calls for inquiry into UK libel laws and Trafigura reporting
New MP Caroline Lucas submits Early Day Motion questioning UK media's freedom to report on oil giant
Posted by Laura Oliver on 01/06/10Press freedom in Trafigura case a priority for UK's first Green MP
Caroline Lucas uses first speech to parliament to question ongoing reporting restrictions around oil trader
Posted by Laura Oliver on 28/05/10Local newspaper editors' survey says public bodies growing more secretive
Newspaper Society survey questions local editors on their experiences of reporting local authority bodies
Posted by Laura Oliver on 07/05/10Reporters Without Borders names 40 press freedom 'predators'
Power relationships have been 'evolving' in the Middle East and Asia, says organisation
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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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You cannot silence us online, press freedom campaigners tell China
Reporters Without Borders tells Chinese authorities they cannot track all information online, as dozens of microblogs go down
Posted by Rachel Bartlett on 19/07/10