Full Coverage: Media

23.06.2006 Journalists in developing countries have a poor understanding of climate change, and this is holding back public debate on the issue, says a recent report. The solution, it suggests, lies partly in greater willingness on the part of both policymakers and scientists to ensure that climate change information is made readily available in a jargon-free form.

22.06.2006 The World Social Forum (WSF) invites people to its seminar on Are Other Worlds Possible: Focus on Media and Communication at the Indian Women's Press Corps (IWPC) in New Delhi on July 1, 2006. The seminar is an interaction between media persons and the people behind the WSF and will seek to look at the state of Indian media critically.

20.06.2006 Media initiatives, training events and seminars in the Balkans are eligible for a grant from the Balkan Incentive Fund for Culture. The European Cultural Foundation, The Dutch Humanist Institute for Cooperation with Developing Countries, and the Open Society Institute are sponsoring the initiativeDeadline: July 1, 2006.

13.06.2006 IT for Change, supported by HIVOS, India, and Association for Progressive Communications, is planning to hold a workshop, “Audio Visual Resources for Development: Moving towards Open Paradigms", on 15th June in Bangalore.

10.06.2006 SAN FRANCISCO, June 10 (OneWorld) - The director of an independent Cuban news agency is in critical condition after more than four months on hunger strike.

09.06.2006 How much does the public know about the international trade agreements governments are negotiating on their behalf? Do ordinary people have any say in the decisions? The Doha talks on a new global trade deal in the World Trade Organization (WTO) have sparked tensions between governments.

09.06.2006 UNITED NATIONS, June 8 (OneWorld) - John Bolton, the United States ambassador to the United Nations, has drawn fire from some prominent civil society groups in his own country for using threatening language against the world body and its senior officials.

05.06.2006 On the occasion of the International Environmental Protection Day, the Croatian Environmental Press Centre launched its website, at www.alertonline.org/press. The continuing activities of this NGO aim to strengthen environmental journalism, which has an important place in the process of increasing awareness and understanding of environmental problems in the public, as well as assist the journalists in finding sources of information on the environment.

01.06.2006 Reporters Without Borders today hailed a Californian appeal court’s “historic” decision on 26 May that online journalists and bloggers have the same right to protect their sources as other kinds of journalists. The ruling was issued in a case between the US electronics manufacturer Apple and websites that posted confidential information about some of its products.