Full Coverage: Media

30.08.2005 The “Professional Reporting on Education” training was developed by the Reuters Foundation for 11 BiH journalists that cover the field of education in Bosnia and Herzegovina. The training was sponsored by the OSCE Mission to BiH Education Department and held in the town of Mostar 24-26 August, 2005.

30.08.2005 RSF exprime son indignation après la mort à Bagdad d'un preneur de son de l'agence Reuters, Waleed Khaled, tué par des tirs de soldats américains lors d'un incident au cours duquel le cameraman qui travaillait avec lui, Haider Kadhem, a été blessé puis arrêté.

26.08.2005 OneWorld South Asia and Panos International are organising a one-day dialogue bringing together key national level communications policymakers and other influential actors with senior editors and journalists, to dialogue and build the media’s interest, increase their stake in building an inclusive information society. The seminar is on September 2 at Chennai.

25.08.2005 Indian grassroots filmmakers and non governmental organisations (NGOs) plan to form a Grassroots Broadcasters Network to spread awareness on developmental and social issues confronting rural India using videos and films.

25.08.2005 The Association of Independent Electronic Media – ANEM believes that the adoption of changes and amendments to the Broadcasting Law, as proposed by the Government of Serbia, may have serious negative consequences.

25.08.2005 HO CHI MINH CITY, Aug 24 (IPS) - As in other communist-ruled countries, newspapers in Vietnam are expected to support the ruling party and government while also playing the role of watchdog against such evils as corruption in high places.

23.08.2005 The OSCE Mission to SCG organized the “Writing Environmental News/Reports” journalism workshop in Sabac and Belgrade in beginning of August, in cooperation with the SEE Regional Environmental Centre REC, under the sponsorship of UNESCO.

23.08.2005 During her stay in Uzbekistan, Jessica Teicher, a U.S. peace corps volunteer, talks of her "frustration with the Uzbek government," and, exchanges with Uzbeks she encountered on issues such as the Andijan massacre and the legacy of the Soviet Union.

22.08.2005 Le contrôle qu'exerce le gouvernement russe sur la télévision nationale et son recours à une réglementation répressive, au harcèlement et à des attaques contre les journalistes qui couvrent le conflit en Tchétchénie privent le public russe d'informations sur les atrocités qui y sont commises, selon les constatations du Comité pour la protection des journalistes (CPJ), au terme d'une enquête qui aura duré un an.

22.08.2005 Le plus grand syndicat du Canada accorde son appui aux travailleurs de la SRC en lock-out dans leur lutte contre le recours accru aux sous-traitants et demande à la direction de la SRC de revenir à la table pour négocier de bonne foi.

18.08.2005 The Indian apex court has issued notices to the government of India, the Press Council of India (PCI), news agencies and major newspapers on a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) seeking classification of newspapers on the basis of their content to denote whether these were fit to be read universally or by adults only.

17.08.2005 Speaker of Tamil Nadu assembly, k. Kalimuthu, inaugrated a Community FM radio service at Erode Sengunthar Engineering College.

17.08.2005 Latin-American young people have had a new web space called the Portal de juventud para America Latina y el Caribe which went online on International Youth Day on 12 August, supported from CELAJU and UNESCO.

16.08.2005 Akbar Ganji, le journaliste iranien emprisonné en janvier 2001 parce qu'il aurait offensé les dirigeants religieux du pays et des fonctionnaires du gouvernement pourrait être à l'article de la mort, la grève de la faim qu’il a entreprise pour protester contre des conditions de détention dépasse maintenant les 60 jours.

Le 22 avril 2000, Akbar Ganji, journaliste aux quotidiens réformateurs Sobh-é-Emrouz, Neshat et Asr-é-Azadegan, et rédacteur en chef de l'hebdomadaire Rah-é-No, est arrêté à son retour de Berlin pour avoir participé à une conférence jugée "anti-islamique" et "antirévolutionnaire" par les autorités iraniennes.

16.08.2005 Like elsewhere in the world, the number of people infected HIV/AIDS is on the rise in Albania. Over the past several years, the number of women with HIV/AIDS is slightly larger with women that with men, report the International Organization for Migrations and the Institute of Public Health, the implementers of the “Inclusion of Albanian artists and sportsmen in campaign against HIV/AIDS” project.

15.08.2005 The traditional system of copyright protection is completely inadequate and unsustainable in the era of internet and new digital technology, concluded the seminar on information and communication technology held at the “Dom Omladine” in Belgrade.

12.08.2005 Alors que la Côte d'Ivoire s'apprête à tenir des élections présidentielles en octobre, Reporters sans frontières (RSF), le Comité pour la protection des journalistes (CPJ) et Human Rights Watch rapportent que des milices progouvernementales recourent à la menace de violences pour intimider les journalistes et les médias.

12.08.2005 Blacks are underrepresented on Sunday morning talk shows, which play a key role in the United States' political discourse, and Asian Americans rarely appear on prime time television, charge a pair of recent studies.

10.08.2005 Iraq--and the rest of the world--can look forward to a reliable and independent news source from the region with the transformation of Aswat al-Iraq (Voices of Iraq), a grassroots Iraqi website developed by Reuters and supported by UNDP, into the first independent and commercially-viable news agency run and staffed by Iraqi journalists.

10.08.2005 Despite finalizing one court case, Internews' Central Asia director, Joshua Machleder, believes that the media training NGO's troubles in Uzbekistan are not yet over and that Uzbek authorities will pursue a case to shut down their Tashkent office.