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Knight Center for Journalism in the Americas (blog)
May 16, 2012
By Summer Harlow With physical violence and cyberattacks against journalists reaching unprecedented levels throughout Latin America, the Knight Center for Journalism in the Americas is bringing together journalists and representatives from multilateral ...
The Daily Star
May 16, 2012
Beirut: Elections to be held later this month for a new executive council of the Journalists Union are illegal, two media groups charged Wednesday.
The Japan Times
May 16, 2012
Hong dodged and weaved, refusing to say whether the expulsion should be seen as a warning to other journalists. Oddly, the Foreign Ministry's "transcript" of the day's session omitted all 14 questions, leaving only two questions that dealt with the ...
Nigerian Tribune
May 16, 2012
A United States of America based non-governmental organisation (NGO) known as Planned Parenthood
global (PPG), in conjunction with the Nigeria Union of Journalists (NUJ),
Nasarawa State Council, last week organised a round table media chat for ...
Medill Reports: Chicago
May 16, 2012
by David Kashi That's one of the plans to help journalists get to know the city a little better. The
Chicago NATO Host Committee, as a way to help journalists enjoy their stay while covering the event, has extended an invitation for a home-cooked meal.
PBS
May 16, 2012
When my colleague Mike Fritz and I headed down to
St. Petersburg, Fla., recently, we knew we were going to see young journalists at work. It's not too hard to imagine that middle
school students with a bit of training can write for a newspaper or even ...
Huffington Post (blog)
May 16, 2012
What happens when leaders of a nation respond to this caprice of nature by deliberately downplaying the extent of the crisis, limiting journalists' access to sensitive areas, and censoring independent coverage of the problem, in the name of protecting ...
Washington Post
May 16, 2012
NEW YORK - A judge on Wednesday struck down a portion of a law giving the government wide powers to regulate the detention, interrogation and prosecution of
suspected terrorists, saying it left journalists, scholars and political activists facing the ...
IBNLive.com
May 16, 2012
A team of three journalism
students from the Bangalore campus of Manipal University has given this a new turn. A news website they have started is 'of the students, by the students and for the students'.
Indian Express
May 16, 2012
LeT founder Hafiz Mohammad Saeed has served legal notices on two Pakistani journalists for allegedly concocting a report about his secret meeting with US Ambassador Cameron Munter, seeking Rs 100 million as damages.
The Guardian (blog)
May 16, 2012
When I wrote about the closure of the noSWeat journalism training college two weeks ago, there was an overwhelmingly angry response.
AllAfrica.com
May 16, 2012
By Tichaona Sibanda, 15 May 2012 An overzealous senior CIO operative based in
Masvingo on Sunday barred two
independent journalists from covering a ZANU PF meeting convened by the party's political commissar Webster Shamu. The meeting was called to ...
AllAfrica.com
May 16, 2012
Accra - Journalists in
Mali are accusing the military authorities of illegally tapping their telephones as a means of silencing critical opinion in the country.
Poynter.org
May 16, 2012
by Craig Silverman Published May 16, 2012 7:38 am Updated May 16, 2012 7:43 am Hermida, a founding member of the BBCNews.com team who now serves as an associate professor at the University of
British Columbia's Graduate
school of Journalism, ...
BBC News
May 16, 2012
politicians and journalists have taken part in a service to celebrate the life of Sunday Times journalist Marie Colvin, killed in Syria in February.
Detroit Free Press
May 16, 2012
By Bill Laitner
student journalists celebrate their awards after the 25th Annual
Ford Motor Company Fund and
Detroit Free Press High
school Journalism Achievement Awards at Ford Motor Headquarters in Dearborn on Tuesday, May 15, 2012.
CNN
May 16, 2012
(
CNN) -- A Honduran radio journalist has been found executed, authorities said -- the 22nd journalist to be killed in the nation since 2010.
Kuwait Times
May 15, 2012
New Delhi: A visiting delegation of ten senior Kuwaiti journalists shared their experiences with Indian scholars, academicians and journalists about their society, role of women, and media back home. They delved into how Kuwaiti media has grown over ...
CPJ Press Freedom Online
May 15, 2012
New York, May 15, 2012--Yemen's Press and Publications Court must drop charges against two
Al-Jazeera journalists for their coverage of last year's uprising, the
Committee to Protect Journalists said today. CPJ also urged the Cabinet not to revive a ...
The Sun Daily
May 15, 2012
PUTRAJAYA (May 15, 2012): A group of concerned journalists submitted a petition to the Prime Minister's Office seeking a public apology from the government and the
police over the assault on members of the media during last month's Bersih 3.0 rally.
Daily Star Online
May 15, 2012
Journalists will march towards the Prime Minister's Office (PMO) on June 26 to press home their demands including the arrest of
killers of Sagar Sarwar and Meherun Runi.
Gothamist
May 15, 2012
"This is a victory for citizen journalists and non-accredited journalists," Arbuckle adds. "The more cameras that are there the more people are held accountable for their actions.
AllAfrica.com
May 15, 2012
VETERAN journalist and former editor of the Manica Post Tim Chigodo, who died on Sunday morning, will be buried today at Warren Hills Ceme-tery.
AllAfrica.com
May 15, 2012
By Onimisi Alao, 15 May 2012 Jos - Journalists in
Plateau State have resolved to
boycott the activities of the state government in protest against Governor Jonah Jang's handling of incessant crisis in parts of the state and his attitude to journalists ...
Washington Post (blog)
May 15, 2012
By DeNeen Brown At a solemn ceremony on Monday morning, the Newseum added the names of 72 reporters, photographers, broadcasters and news executives to its Journalists Memorial honoring those killed on the job. Alejandro Junco, president and chief ...
Tadias Magazine
May 15, 2012
And Nega is not alone in being on the receiving end of an ongoing government crackdown on
independent journalists in Ethiopia, many of whom are also being silenced by arrests and imprisonment.
New Straits Times
May 15, 2012
KUALA LUMPUR: Bernama television cameraman Noramfaizul Mohd Nor, who was killed while on assignment in
Somalia last year, has become the first Malaysian journalist to be accorded honours at the Newseum Journalists Memorial in the United States.
NPR
May 15, 2012
The spiraling drug violence is increasingly affecting journalists, in a country considered one of the most dangerous for reporters.
NBC Chicago
May 15, 2012
In addition, a group of people -- citizen journalists -- will be doing what they can to show their unique view of what's happening.
WTSP 10 News
May 15, 2012
About 400 journalists from around the world who will be covering the
Republican National Convention got a chance to look over their workspace Monday during a walk through at the
Tampa Bay Times Forum.
CPJ Press Freedom Online
May 15, 2012
New York, May 14, 2012--The
Committee to Protect Journalists welcomes Syria's release of several journalists and press freedom activists over the weekend, but condemns the continued detention of at least nine journalists--and likely several ...
BusinessWeek
May 15, 2012
Hammerl was shot April 5, 2011, when he and three other journalists were attacked by Moammar Gadhafi's forces. Hammerl and the others were traveling outside of
Brega when the group was attacked by government troops who shot and killed him.
AllAfrica.com
May 15, 2012
By Joe Kadhi, 14 May 2012 The just ended East
African journalists' convention at the Kenyatta International Conference Centre was an eye opener in more than one way.
BusinessWeek
May 15, 2012
By CHRISTOPHER TORCHIA A Turkish journalist who was held captive in Syria for two months said Monday that he was intensely interrogated while blindfolded by Syrian authorities who suspected he was a
spy and wondered why his government was trying so ...
Huffington Post
May 14, 2012
Chan returned to Southern
California last week as the first accredited foreign correspondent to be expelled from
China in 14 years, an act that sparked a flurry of news reports and expressions of solidarity from fellow journalists.
Huffington Post
May 14, 2012
Istanbul, May 13 (Reuters) - Two Turkish journalists freed after two months' captivity in Syria told on Sunday how they were held in a tiny, underground cell by
gunmen loyal to President
Bashar al-Assad with
guns pointed at their heads, fearing they ...
Daily Star Online
May 14, 2012
Nephew of State Minister for Home Shamsul Haque Tuku yesterday beat in public a journalist at Bera upazila of Pabna for publishing a report on the alleged corruption by the
relatives of Tuku.
Long Beach Post
May 14, 2012
By Brian Addison
students from the Journalism and Mass Communications Department at
California State University, Long Beach (CSULB) partnered with New American Media's youth-led Voicewaves this semester to cover issues in some of the city's most ...
The Sun Daily
May 14, 2012
KUALA LUMPUR (May 14, 2012): Noramfaizul Mohd Nor, the Bernama TV cameraman killed while on assignment in
Somalia last year, has become the first Malaysian journalist to be accorded honours at the Newseum Journalists Memorial in the United States ...
AllAfrica.com
May 14, 2012
By Vincent Egunyanga, 14 May 2012
Benin - An edifice to be called "Democracy House" will be built by the
Edo State government and the names of the three journalists, who died in an auto crash involving the convoy of Governor Adams Oshiomhole, ...
The Express Tribune
May 14, 2012
By Our Correspondent At an event organised by the
Karachi Union of Journalists on Monday, audience members had the opportunity to meet four journalists who symbolised the civil society's struggle against Ziaul Haq's military dictatorship.
Politico
May 14, 2012
Nowadays, it seems, the journalists getting all the attention are the young, innovative whippersnappers
blogging and tweeting news nuggets left and right.
Charlotte Observer
May 14, 2012
Five major media players in Charlotte have combined forces to create the Charlotte Arts Journalism Alliance, a collection of trained arts journalists commissioned to produce compelling arts journalism published under the CAJA banner on TV, radio, ...
New York Times (blog)
May 14, 2012
Seventeen journalists, most of them photographers, were allegedly beaten up by Indian
paramilitary soldiers when they went to cover the aftermath of a
bomb attack.
RadioFreeEurope/RadioLiberty
May 14, 2012
By RFE/RL WASHINGTON -- Journalists from Afghanistan,
Azerbaijan, Iraq, Pakistan, and Russia are among 70 individuals who have been memorialized at a US journalism museum for giving their lives to their profession in 2011. Chris
wells, former senior ...
AllAfrica.com
May 14, 2012
By Nseobong Okon-Ekong, 13 May 2012 A grim picture of the state of the media detailing deaths of 25 Nigerian journalists within the first five months of the year was painted yesterday in Lagos by the president of the Nigeria Union of Journalists, ...
Wall Street Journal
May 14, 2012
Hammerl was shot April 5, 2011, when he and three other journalists were attacked by Moammar Gadhafi's forces. Hammerl and the others were traveling outside of
Brega when the group was attacked by government troops who shot and killed him.
Washington Post
May 14, 2012
Istanbul - A Turkish journalist who was held captive in Syria for two months said Monday that he was intensely interrogated while blindfolded by Syrian authorities who suspected he was a
spy and wondered why his government was trying so hard to ...
CJAD
May 14, 2012
In a recent
blog post on their web site, the anonymous writer put journalists on notice, saying, 'media informants are choice targets for future actions'.
