Full Coverage: Media

28.10.2005 Under the auspices of the E-Society international conference, a public panel discussion on Freedom of the Media on the Internet took place in the Hotel Aleksandar Palace, Skopje.

28.10.2005 Recently the Finnish Broadcasting Company YLE announced a NATO Gallup that enraged both supporters of democracy and opponents of NATO. It also raised criticism in the media for the way it was conducted. In this inquiry, the majority of Finns had said no to NATO, but then they were asked whether they would support the countries’ leaders in case they decide to join it, and most had said yes. The result was broadcast as, “The Majority of Finns would support political leaders if they decided to join NATO”.

25.10.2005 "Promoting Public Services in the Media: Human Rights, Tolerance, Multilingualism and the Fight against Discrimination" is the subject of a UNESCO sponsored conference at which media experts meet this week in Lisbon, Portugal.

24.10.2005 Fatos Bytyci, RTK journalist, is elected the new president of Association of Professional Journalists of Kosova (AGPK), by the Second Annual Assembly of the AGPK, held on Sunday in Prishtina.

17.10.2005 The editor of a women's rights magazine has been accused of publishing anti-Islamic articles and faces a 10-15 year prison sentence. Write the U.S. State Department and urge them to take action on behalf of women's rights and freedom of speech in Afghanistan, urges the Feminist Majority Foundation.

13.10.2005 Africa's biggest names in music came together recently for an unprecedented, 15-hour show to rally Africans in the fight against poverty. Viewers will be called on to send text messages for trade justice during the event, which will be televised in 11 countries this weekend.

13.10.2005 After ten years supporting independent media in the country, and ten minutes of deliberation by Tashkent's city court, Internews has been forced to close up shop. Following a maelstrom of popular uprisings in the region, Uzbek authorities have cracked-down on non-governmental organizations over the past 18 months.

11.10.2005 The research group of the Press Council, established with the assistance of the UNESCO, declared the establishment of a New System of Ethical Journalism in Serbia. The Declaration was presented at the regular monthly press-conference held at the Media Centre Belgrade.

11.10.2005 The OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Miklos Haraszti, has asked the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia (ICTY) to release Croatian journalist Josip Jovic.

10.10.2005 The inaugural Global Forum for Media Development addressed the issues facing media professionals and highlighted the role independent media plays in political and economic development. This year's event, in Amman, Jordan, drew over six hundred journalists and media experts from nearly 100 countries.

05.10.2005 A three day workshop on developing media professionals’ skills to better serve sustainable development was recently organised with UNESCO’s support in the Lebanese capital Beirut.

04.10.2005 New Delhi-based development and communication organisation Charkha has launched the first developmental urdu feature service which will bring writings from rural areas to Indian capital New Delhi.

03.10.2005 The “Media Mirror” is a monitoring project, intended to present a clear picture of the professional standards and information criteria of the Macedonian media and the manner in which they cover and interpret the key social and political processes and events.

01.10.2005 The media is in our face everywhere – newspapers, magazines, TV, radio and the internet. If we are not reading, we are listening, watching and taking it all in. The pressure on the media is therefore enormous, to constantly bring out reports and articles in bite sizes that can be easily enjoyed and digested by an ever-hungry and ever-impatient public.