Full Coverage: Media

28.11.2006 Shi Tao, the Chinese journalist who was imprisoned after the American search engine company Yahoo provided information to the Chinese authorities that led to his arrest, has been awarded the 2007 Golden Pen of Freedom, the annual press freedom prize of the World Association of Newspapers.

25.11.2006 from Treehugger blog:
Grab a video camera and tell the world about the steps you and your peers are taking to stop global warming, in two minutes or less! You could win a sustainable prize worth $25,000.

23.11.2006 Vigorous expansion of trade between developing countries has created "a new geography of global trade," but communications have lagged behind this and other processes that have increased the gravitas of the South, participants agreed at a seminar in Brazil.

21.11.2006 The Media Development Centre (MDC) and the Association of Private Electronic Media of Macedonia (APEMM) publicly oppose the initiative for a Law on Changes and Amendments to the Law on Broadcasting, which provides for extension of the deadline for transformation of local public radio stations for additional six months.

21.11.2006 Second International Conference „e-Society.Mk“ was organised by the Metamorphosis Foundation in Holiday Inn Hotel in Skopje on November 15-17, 2006.

17.11.2006 Networked Intelligence for Development is a Toronto based network of independent consultants and trainers specializing in new media, information and communication technologies (ICTs), the creative industries and international development. Our consultants have held senior positions in multilateral organizations, governmental and intergovernmental organizations, broadcasting and media institutions, research institutes and non-governmental organizations.

17.11.2006 The Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) is inviting applications for CSE Media Fellowships on the National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (NREGA): Opportunities and Challenges. The felloships are open to journalists and the last date is November 28, 2006.

16.11.2006 The Second International Conference e-Society.mk started yesterday, November 15, in Skopje. The conference, which will close on Friday, November 17, 2006, gathers Macedonian and international ICT experts, to facilitate exchange of experiences and create policies based on the latest information related to information society.

15.11.2006 The Time Europe magazine published its special edition 60 Years of Heroes, which lists 60 names of people who, in their opinion, “shaped our lives since 1946”. Natasa Kandic, Executive Director of the Humanitarian Law Centre, was named one of the heroes.

08.11.2006 Association of Independent Electronic Media (ANEM) insists that the authorities should take appropriate measures to bring order in the television advertising market in Serbia.

07.11.2006 The Independent Association of Journalists of Serbia – NUNS established a section dedicated to women in media. The section is charged with survey of existing situation and reaction in cases of problems.

06.11.2006 from ecostreet blog:
A calendar of climate change for 2007.