Full Coverage: Media

29.07.2005 Quatre journalistes qui travaillaient pour des journaux islamistes au Pakistan ont été arrêtés la semaine dernière après que la police de Karachi eut effectué des descentes dans leurs bureaux dans le cadre d?une accélération de la lutte que mène le pays contre l?extrémisme, selon ce que rapportent la Fondation de la presse du Pakistan (PPF) et le Comité pour la protection des journalistes (CPJ).

28.07.2005 Heading to the beach this weekend, or just looking for something to engage you on those lazy summer afternoons? Here are ten books that provide insight into humanitarianism and the causes of displacement.

28.07.2005 GONG protested the decision by the City Council of Zagreb to change the practice for media access to the sessions of the Council and City Assembly and demands from the Council to open its work to the public again.

28.07.2005 On a recent trip to New York, writer Steven Laffoley crossed paths with two TV news reporters. First, a network news host with something to say, says nothing. And then, a reporter with nothing to say, says something. Where are the facts? Where is the truth?

26.07.2005 Could Telesur be Latin America's al-Jazeera? The continent-wide TV station launched Sunday, offering viewers a different perspective from the U.S.- and Europe-based corporate stations that currently dominate the airwaves. But, apparently afraid to lose the hearts and minds of another region, U.S. lawmakers have already reacted, authorizing $9 million for Washington to create its own competing station.

26.07.2005 For years, the environmental NGOs (ENGOs) have felt the need for a publication of their own that would enforce and stabilise the network of the environmental movement in Albania. Also, it could prove a powerful agent in the process of establishment of a strong public environmental opinion in the environmental development policies. Therefore, the publication of “The Environment Today” newspaper started in 2002. The paper is published by the Regional Environmental Center (REC) country office in Albania, in cooperation with Milieukontakt OOST Europa.

25.07.2005 Twenty-seven jounalists, novelists, and internet writers from 17 countries have been awarded this year's Hellman/Hammett grants, recognizing those who have shown courage in the face of political persecution. The writers honored this year have been harassed, assaulted, indicted, jailed on trumped up charges, or tortured merely for providing information from nongovernmental sources.

25.07.2005 At the meeting held in Negotino on Thursday, July 21, the Association of Public Local Broadcasting Enterprises of Macedonia discussed the Draft-Broadcasting Law and estimated the new legislation will completely destroy the local system of information.

25.07.2005 The trial of two Internews employees charged with conspiracy in Uzbekistan began last week. While the U.S.-based NGO denies any wrong-doing, regional analysts say the case is politically motivated and that, with closed proceedings and the prosecutor's call for Internews to close their office, guilty verdicts are virtually assured.

25.07.2005 Some young filmmakers featured in this year's Media that Matters Film Festival talked with Children's PressLine about their documentaries, why they made them, and why other young people should use the media to express their own messages for social change. "People will take you more seriously when they find out that you are young and trying to make a difference, said journalist Antonina Zielinska, 16.

22.07.2005 Le Groupe d'observation de la Tunisie organisé par l'IFEX vient d'inaugurer un nouveau site web qui passe en revue de manière détaillée la situation de la libre expression dans ce pays et qui met le gouvernement au défi de cesser de bloquer l'Internet pendant la période précédant la tenue, en novembre 2005, du Sommet mondial de la société de l'information (SMIS).

22.07.2005 WASHINGTON, D.C., Jul 22 (OneWorld) - Activists seeking to impeach President George W. Bush have planned 300-plus events nationwide Saturday to mark the third anniversary of a top-level meeting of British officials that they say proves the White House manipulated intelligence and lied to Congress to justify its war against Iraq.

22.07.2005 The Global Resource Action Center for the Environment is spearheading a letter campaign to public television stations across the U.S. this week, registering their concern over the airing of "America's Heartland," a TV series funded by the multi-million dollar corporation, Monsanto, and several other big business groups. The series, they say, will not accurately portray the negative effects of industrial agribusiness on small family farms.

21.07.2005 Arts Engine's film "Deadline" received an Emmy Award nomination this week for Outstanding Continuing Coverage of a News Story in a News Magazine. The film explores Illinois Governor George Ryan's 2003 decision to pardon all 171
Death Row prisoners and recounts the legal storm surrounding the decision.

20.07.2005 The National Association of Software and Service Companies (Nasscom) has launched an `IT workforce development initiative' to recognise the importance of human resource for the IT industry.

20.07.2005 Our Media is a network of over 400 activists, media persons, researchers who work on strengthening the media and information/communication technologies (ICT's) that support social justice, human rights, community autonomy and grassroots empowerment. The last date for entries/proposals is August 31, for its international meet to be held in Bangalore on 5-9 December.

19.07.2005 Health campaigners have charged Milupa with fudging its month-long baby formula ad in a national newspaper to suggest it is as good as breast milk.

18.07.2005 The Association of Independent Electronic Media (ANEM) strongly protests the series of attacks and threats aimed at association member RTV B92.

15.07.2005 WASHINGTON, D.C., Jul 15 (OneWorld) - Anti-genocide activists have launched a new campaign to increase U.S. television coverage of mass killings in Darfur, Sudan--described by the United Nations as the world's worst humanitarian crisis.

15.07.2005 Indian journalists working in the fields of world affairs or development news can apply for the Appan Menon Memorial Award for 2005-2006. The last date for applications is August 30, 2005.