Full Coverage: Media

30.06.2005 The BBC cleans up at the Race in the Media awards, scooping almost half the gongs on offer. But black journalists fear Corporation bosses are about to axe diversity.

30.06.2005 Journalists and editors from several Pristina and Belgrade media gathered yesterday at the “Belgrade-Pristina Media Dialogue” meeting, organized in Belgrade under the auspices of the Civil Dialogue. The participants in the event estimated that the media from Kosovo and Serbia should cooperate and exchange information.

29.06.2005 Police in Zambia have threatened to charge radio host and commentator Anthony Mukwita with sedition after a June 10 broadcast on privately owned Radio Phoenix in which he read an anonymous fax criticizing the government.

29.06.2005 Journalists in Pakistan have reportedly filed dozens of access to information requests in the past six months as a result of workshops on press freedom organised by the Pakistan Press Foundation (PPF). Since December 2004, PPF has held workshops in seven communities throughout the country to train journalists on press freedom monitoring and free expression advocacy.

29.06.2005 Broadcasting is crucial to development said the participants of the Asia Media Summit (AMS) that the Asia-Pacific Institute for Broadcasting Development (AIBD) in collaboration with partners and with support from UNESCO organized in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

29.06.2005 "Real news is the news you and I need to keep our freedoms," correspondent and historian Richard Reeves once told a student. Public broadcasting's number one news anchor, Bill Moyers, stands up to those who, with metallic flags on their lapels, are attempting to muzzle the few in American society who are reporting the news rather than the spin.

28.06.2005 The Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) and its partners as a part
of Society Outreach and Communication Programme have announced the
2005 AISI Media Awards.

28.06.2005 Radio pirates are walking the plank into the ocean of federal licensing now that the Federal Communications Commission has sanctioned community radio and opened the airwaves to locals broadcasting.

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24.06.2005 A community radio station in Edinburgh has agreed to give up its wavelength on July 2nd so that the Make Poverty History campaign can broadcast news of the mass rally and reaction from the participants.

24.06.2005 The arrival of the Media that Matters Film Festival in Crawfordsville, Indiana recently, sparked a battle of the op-eds. One community member criticized the films for "deriding everything from President George W. Bush to the eating of meat." Others praised the selection for "encourag[ing] discussion and dialogue by presenting diverse opinions" and bringing an "opportunity to stretch us beyond ourselves."

21.06.2005 Millions of people in the U.S. still don't know about new and convincing evidence that the Bush administration manipulated intelligence to support its plan to invade Iraq. As the death toll of servicepeople in Iraq continues to grow, Global Exchange is calling on you to ask your local media outlets to cover this staggering and largely ignored story, which could be grounds to impeach the U.S. president.

20.06.2005 Les membres de l'IFEX attirent l'attention sur le Code pénal algérien, que les autorités invoquent pour incarcérer les journalistes qui couvrent d'un ?il critique le gouvernement et les forces armées. Au cours de la dernière semaine, au moins quatre d'entre eux ont été reconnus coupables de diffamation pénale et trois se sont vu infliger des peines d'emprisonnement. Il y a encore des centaines d'autres affaires pendantes contre les journalistes.

20.06.2005 Last week, the Index Kosova a public opinion, media and market research private company from Pristina (joint venture with BBSS Gallup International, published the latest survey “Media Habits and Political
Issues in Kosova”.

17.06.2005 The decision by the Indian government to allow foreign newspapers to print facsimile editions in the country has been hailed by journalists and editors who feel that this move would widen the news choice for Indian readers. It would allow foreign newspapers to introduce their fascimile editions to the Indian reader.

17.06.2005 On 14 June 2005, Lusaka police questioned Anthony Mukwita, a Radio Phoenix "Let the People Talk" programme host, over a fax anonymously sent, which he had read on air during the 10 June edition of the programme. The fax accused the government of condoning corruption and warned that the country might slip into anarchy as a result.

17.06.2005 At a Baghdad conference this week, over 200 Iraqi journalists demanded greater press freedom in the war-torn country. Working under dangerous conditions, Iraqi and foreign journalists shared their experiences, including being targeted by both insurgents and Coalition forces.

16.06.2005 A group of 24 journalism students from across Bosnia-Herzegovina were the first to participate in the seminar entitled "Reporting from the BiH State Parliamentary Assembly". This seminar involved a series of lectures regarding ethics and self-regulation in journalism and specifically, the practice of reporting from a parliamentary press gallery.

16.06.2005 A recent Wall Street Journal feature helped spread awareness about many of Coca-Cola's abuses in India, but the article let the company off the hook in several irrefutable respects and failed to properly characterize the massive grassroots movement behind the campaign to hold Coke to account, says the India Resource Center.

15.06.2005 The World Association for Christian Communication (WACC) has brought out this new publication - Christian fundamentalism and the media - that dwells on the doctrines and attitudes of a number of Christian groups and sects related to their use of the media.