Full Coverage: Media

29.08.2006 Delhi’s traffic intrigues Jim Wales. Wikipedia’s founder can’t miss the similarities with his free online encyclopedia that rewrote the rules of reference books business – everyone is driving all over the road and honking all the way.

28.08.2006 A training course that aims to make it easier for journalists and others to gain access to public information started today with the support of the OSCE Mission to Skopje.

28.08.2006 Zvonimir Dobrovic, Queer Zagreb Programme Leader, comments on the increasing interest of Croatian media in the gay tourists that visit the Croatian coast, motivated solely by the very fact that these people are homosexual.

23.08.2006 The MOST Centre for Cultural Development and Information started its Odjek civic information portal, dedicated to the NGO sector in Montenegro.

22.08.2006 from TheWatt:
'A video appearing on Youtube that derides Al Gore and his movie "An Inconvenient Truth" purports to come from some kid named Toutsmith in his basement hideaway, but after some investigation now appears to have been produced by someone a little higher up the food chain...'

21.08.2006 “Glas Slavonije” reports that the Croatian Journalist Association and the Media Council of the Croatian Helsinki Committee (HHO) have started the initiative to establish a Media Council as new media ethics self-regulatory body.

18.08.2006 from NextBillion.net blogs:
'If we simply adopted the rural Ugandan model of energy production, we could still enjoy all the virtues of American culture while avoiding its vices, namely obesity.'

05.08.2006 from Carbon Footprints blog:
The 'apocalyptic' way in which climate change is often portrayed in the press and on government websites succeeds only in 'thrilling' people while undermining practical efforts to tackle the problem. How about some optimism?