Full Coverage: Media

29.04.2005 Charities are occasionally regarded as fair game for tabloid journalists. In this case of a volunteer accused of child trafficking in Montenegro, it took 15 months before the Sunday Mirror lost the defamation claim and apologised.

28.04.2005
Stages outre-mer

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28.04.2005 On April 26, the SEE Media Organization – SEEMO called on the Government of Montenegro to respect the principle of independence of the media and to relieve the pressure on the media.

25.04.2005 Le 28 avril à Montréal a lieu un événement visant à approfondir certains enjeux liés au développement d'une démocratie en ligne au Québec et ses impacts sur la population, un dossier qui persiste à retenir l'attention d'une toute petite poignée de féministes québécoises. La société de l'information et de la communication gagnera-t-elle à continuer d'être conçue sans vous?

25.04.2005 Media groups call upon Bangladesh government to identify the killers of a Bangladeshi journalist who was murdered last year after being kidnapped from his house. The World Association of Newspapers (WAN) has asked Prime Minister Khaleda Zia to ensure that the killers are pursued and prosecuted.

22.04.2005 OneWorld UK meets the organisers of the Palestine Film Festival, an event growing in size and ambition, which runs this year at the Barbican and SOAS.

22.04.2005 Initiatives like the "Africa Season" of programmes to be broadcast by the BBC this summer could be scheduled much more often under proposals in the Green Paper for the future of the BBC. More public support is needed however to ensure that the newly elected government does not tinker with the detail.

22.04.2005 The new Pope may create predicaments for journalists in North Amercia and Europe, torn between professional respect for religions and concern that the power of the catholic church extends its influence into political territory.

21.04.2005 The public relations success of the Make Poverty History campaign runs the ironic risk of creating supporters who can respond only to shallow messages of the mainstream media - comforted by ephemeral slogans and untroubled with learning about the underlying issues. A crucial opportunity for stimulating activism beyond 2005 may have been missed, argues the Director of the Development Education Association.

21.04.2005 Sandra Gojkovic, reporter of “Nezavisne Novine” from Banja Luka, received threats over the telephone last Monday, for her report on the illegal activities at the Banja Luka University’s School of Engineering.

20.04.2005 This Analysis of the media scene is the true “Feasibility Study” for the Government of Montenegro, and it demonstrated the extent to which this establishment is willing, not only to enter the EU, but to adopt the behaviour in accordance with the principle of good governance. If we judge on the contents of the analysis, the conclusion jumps to mind on its own - UNFEASIBLE!!!

20.04.2005 The Anaconda Award grand prize went to Victor Churay, a young Bora Indian from northern Peru, for his documentary The Search for Blue. Churay’s story tells how he used the secrets of the jungle taught to him by his father to inspire his art, which expresses the myths, stories, dreams and aspirations of his community.

19.04.2005 The Indian ministry of Information and Broadcasting is mulling over incorporating `do's and don'ts' in the Broadcasting Bill to reign in sting operations with hidden cameras that have embarassed the government no end.

18.04.2005 The participants in the “Journalistic Professional License or Certificate” round-table discussion, organized by the Independent Association of Journalists in Serbia (NUNS) and the Independent Society of Journalists of Vojvodina NDNV, supported the idea of introduction of professional certification of journalists in Serbia. The initiative was started because of the concerns in the two organizations over the overall situation in the journalistic profession in the country.

18.04.2005 Rajko Cerovic, the President of the Steering Board of RTB Montenegro (the public broadcasting service) estimates that “in spite of all media legislation and development of democratic atmosphere in the country, the level of hate speech in certain media is still high”.

18.04.2005 The term of office for Tonci Gabric, the most successful editor-in-chief of ZaMirZINE electronic newspaper, which has created a conflict inside the ZaMirNET structures.

15.04.2005 Grammy-nominated Congolese singer and women’s advocate Zap Mama will compliment screenings of the documentary "Love, Labor, Loss" at select venues in the U.S. in April. The film, about poor African women who are debilitated because of childbirth, is being shown around the United States to build momentum for Fistula Awareness Day on Mother’s Day, May 8.

14.04.2005 Link TV, a non-commercial television network, has received radio and television’s most prestigious award for "Mosaic: World News from the Middle East." The daily news show was launched after 9/11 and presents the Middle East as 280 million people in 22 countries see it every day, often breaking regional stories that other U.S. networks won’t report.

13.04.2005 At the annual MIP TV Fair the United Nations Millennium Campaign launched an appeal to broadcasters to play a bigger role in raising awareness of the world's commitment to end poverty.

13.04.2005 The resource-rich state of Chhattisgarh in central India is facing severe problems related to environment and water because of heavy industrialisation and mining. Rivers are being diverted, forests are turning into mining areas and farmlands are being converted into industrial areas under the guise of `development.’ Rahul Kumar, who attended a meeting of Chhattisgarh-based development experts and journalists reports from the interiors of the state.