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Robert Mugabe’s government continues restrictions of press

Posted by Julie Tomlin on 13 June 2008 at 17:23
Tags: Journalism

The Association of Zimbabwe Journalists reports that the media has been ordered by the government not to carry advertisements for the Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) .
The Zimbabwean government has also classed all foreign newspapers, magazines and periodicals as luxury goods and imposed 40 per cent import duty. Newspapers from South Africa, which many Zimbabweans [...]

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Women in Cambodia club together

Posted by Julie Tomlin on 13 June 2008 at 16:56
Tags: Journalism

With few women working as journalists in Cambodia, one woman is planning to set up a club to encourage and mentor others, The Phnom Penh Post reports.

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China’s promises on press freedom -what can journalists expect?

Posted by Julie Tomlin on 13 June 2008 at 16:37
Tags: Journalism

A report on China and its media by the Committee to Protect Journalists has been updated in the lead up to the Olympic Games in Beijing.
Called Falling Short and first published in August last year, the report claims that the Chinese authorities have failed to meet promises made to the International Olympic Committee (IOC) in [...]

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Journalist shortlisted for human rights award is jailed

Posted by Julie Tomlin on 9 June 2008 at 13:48
Tags: Journalism

A leading journalist in Yemen has been sentenced to six years in prison just days before he was due to attend Amnesty International’s media awards ceremony in London.
Abdulkarim al-Khaiwani, the former editor of Yemen’s political weekly newspaper Al-Shora, was sentenced to six years imprisonment on Monday after being convicted by the Specialised Criminal Court [...]

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Avon and Somerset Police caution journalist for supplying alcohol to children

Posted by Julie Tomlin on 6 June 2008 at 13:28
Tags: Journalism, Law, Photography, Regional Newspapers

Avon and Somerset police have announced that a journalist who supplied alcohol to children for a photo shoot has been cautioned.

Police said that in February journalist allowed the youths to keep the alcohol after taking the photographs in the Filton area of Bristol and that later in the evening there was a serious incident in Stoke Gifford involving some of the youths.

The Avon and Somerset police site said it was understood the photos were being taken on behalf of a national newspaper which had launched a campaign to tackle underage drinking.

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Mandrake champions BBC presenters’ pay

Posted by Julie Tomlin on 4 June 2008 at 11:27
Tags: BBC, Broadcast, Journalism, Media Business, National Newspapers, Radio, Television

Tim Walker sent flattering emails to BBC presenters telling them they were more deserving than Jonathan Ross of his reported £18 million salary… Read the responses here and here.

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In the magazine this week

Posted by Julie Tomlin on 2 April 2008 at 16:39
Tags: Uncategorized

The latest issue of Press Gazette is with subscribers today, and on newstands tomorrow.

This week Press Gazette launches its ‘Fair Play on CFA’ campaign adding its voice to the call for an end to the extortionate “no-win, no-fee” legal fees system.

Find out more about the concerns among journalists over proposed anti-terror legislation, the latest version of Trinity Mirror’s hyperlocal news websites and what happened to thousands of copies of British Airways’ internal magazine BA News when the launch of Terminal 5 ended in chaos.

City University’s Neil Thurman unveils the findings of extensive research into the video and multimedia on UK news websites, Channel 4 News’ Lindsey Hilsum writes on the frustrations of reporting the Tibet riots and Daniel Forman, epolitix.com editor takes a look at the political bloggers.

There’s also an interview with Reuters journalist Peter Apps about working as a journalist after he was paralysed in a car accident in Sri Lanka.

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Afghan journalist to speak to Europe media about his brother’s death sentence

Posted by Julie Tomlin on 10 March 2008 at 17:08
Tags: Journalism

Sayed Yaqub Ibrahimi, the brother of Sayed Perwiz Kambakhsh, the journalist who has been sentenced to death in Afghanistan
for blasphemy is to speak in Paris on 11 March at a Reporters Without Borders event and in Belgium on 12 March at an event organised by Belgian newspaper De Morgan.

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Promise of burial ground highlights dangers for Iraqi journalists

Posted by Julie Tomlin on 10 March 2008 at 16:29
Tags: Journalism

The decision by the Najaf governor to grant Iraqi journalists a dedicated piece of land in Dar Al-Salam cemetery has been met with derision by journalists who view it as further proof that the government is powerless to protect them.
Aswat Al-Iraq, an independent news agency quotes Hazim Inaiya from the Institute for War and Peace [...]

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Zimbabwean journalist to fight ban

Posted by Julie Tomlin on 7 March 2008 at 16:21
Tags: Journalism

A journalist is challenging a year-long work ban imposed on him by the state media commission in Zimbabwe which has remained in force despite recent changes to the media laws.
Lawyers for Brian Hungwe, who has worked with the BBC and SABC, have called on the Media and Information Commission (MIC) to lift the ban [...]

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Pressure in Mexico

Posted by Julie Tomlin on 7 March 2008 at 15:36
Tags: Journalism

Half of the freelance journalists working in Mexico have been threatened or attacked, while many of them are low paid and do not have a regular income, according to a new report published by The Rory Peck Trust.

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Kidman photographer to appeal

Posted by Julie Tomlin on 28 February 2008 at 15:53
Tags: Journalism

Sydney photographer Jamie Fawcett told the Sydney Morning Herald he would appeal against his failed bid for damages against Fairfax Media over claims in one of its papers that he was “Sydney’s most disliked freelance photographer” because of his harassment of actor Nicole Kidman.

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Citizen journalism in Mobile-mad India

Posted by Julie Tomlin on 28 February 2008 at 14:10
Tags: Journalism, Mobile

With more than 241 million mobile phones in India and 7.8 million new ones bought each month, micro and mobile blogging sites are proliferating, writes new media blogger Pramit Singh.
Singh has written three articles on citizen journalism in India on his blog Mediavidea.

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Russian freedom of speech “shrinking alarmingly”

Posted by Julie Tomlin on 28 February 2008 at 14:02
Tags: Journalism

There is less and less freedom of the media in the Russian Federation as a result of increasing restrictions on independent journalists in recent years, a report by Amnesty International claims.
News organisations have been shut and journalists are increasingly restricted by new legislation such as laws combating extremist activities, Amnesty said in a 52-page report [...]

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Journalist’s union chief buried in Iraq

Posted by Julie Tomlin on 28 February 2008 at 13:46
Tags: Journalism

The funeral of top Iraqi journalist Shihab al-Timimi was held in Baghdad today.
The chief of the Iraqi Journalists’ Union died on Wednesday after he was shot by unidentified gunmen in an ambush on 23 February.
The Committee to Protect Journalists condemned the attack and said Al-Tamimi had received calls threatening his life.

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Pressure on media grows as Zimbabwe elections approach

Posted by Julie Tomlin on 26 February 2008 at 18:22
Tags: Journalism

Robert Mugabe’s government is tightening its crackdown on the media in the lead up to the 29 March elections, Reporters Without Borders claims.
Journalists have been arrested, ordered to reveal sources and newspapers threatened with closure “in an upsurge of harassment that seriously threatens press freedom ahead of polling,” press freedom organisation claims.

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US to question Iraqi journalist over alleged Iran activity

Posted by Julie Tomlin on 26 February 2008 at 17:22
Tags: Journalism

A US military spokesman told Reuters that Hafidh al-Beshara, news editor and manager of political programming of the al-Furat television station was detained because he may have “key information on Iranian-sponsored criminal activity”.
Reuters reported 26 February that the senior journalist from one of Iraq’s biggest television stations would be questioned in the next 48-72 hours.
An [...]

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Leading journalists threatened in Kenya

Posted by Julie Tomlin on 31 January 2008 at 13:37
Tags: Uncategorized

At least five journalists received emails threatening them with the same fate as opposition MP Melitus Mugabe who was murdered 29 January.

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Father considers impact of Daniel Pearl’s murder six years on

Posted by Julie Tomlin on 31 January 2008 at 12:30
Tags: Uncategorized

To mark the sixth anniversary of the murder of WSJ journalist Daniel Pearl his father, Judea, has written in a column that the fact that his son was not killed “for what he wrote or planned to write, but for what he represented” was a “new twist of killing journalists” that has “changed the course [...]

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Journalist sued after criticising decision to drop cartoon

Posted by Julie Tomlin on 31 January 2008 at 12:03
Tags: Journalism

Canadian media commentator Rafe Mair is being sued by the publisher of the Province Newspaper over a column he wrote for an online newsmagazine about the decision to stop running the editorial cartoons of two journalists who have “long held Governments’ feet to the fire.”

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