10 May 2015 / By M. Zahangir Kabir In November 2005, the World Summit on (WSIS) called upon the UN General Assembly to declare May 17 as the World Information Society Day to focus on a wide range of issues. The General Assembly adopted a resolution in March 2006 stipulating that the World Information Society Day…
5 May 2015 / By Godwin Akweiteh Allotey/citifmonline.com/Ghana Ghana has been ranked the 22nd country on the World Press Freedom Index. According to the 2015 World Press Freedom Index ranking, compiled by Paris-based ‘Reporters Without Borders,’ Ghana ranked 22nd out of 180 countries. This was disclosed by the Minister of Communications, Dr. Omane Boamah at a symposium…
Recently Gebru Kahsay Kiflu from the College of Social Science and Humanities, Adigrat University (Adigrat, Ethiopia) published a new article in the Journal New Media and Mass Communication. The article entitled “Broadcast Speech and the State of Broadcasting with Reference to Ethiopia: A Review” can be found in the following link. Abstract The issue of…
25 January 2015 / By Naomi Sakr In a classic essay in the Journal of Democracy in 2002, “The End of the Transition Paradigm,” democratization analyst Thomas Carothers questioned the assumption that elections are the be-all and end-all of democracy. His argument seems especially apt in Egypt’s case. One mistake, according to Carothers, is to believe…
19 January 2015 / By Reporters Without Reporters Without Borders condemns attacks on media pluralism during the campaign for tomorrow’s presidential election in Zambia due to the ruling Patriotic Front’s harassment and threats against several news outlets. Media coverage has also been very partisan during the campaign, with the main opposition party, the United Party…
13th January, 2015/ By Ghana Web Nana Akufo-Addo, the presidential candidate of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), has encouraged the media to intensify their reportage on corruption and expose officials to help the country reduce the canker to its barest minimum. According to Akufo-Addo, the media should support and collaborate with the party to wage…
25th November 2014 / By Prince Obimpeh (Peace fm Online) A Ghanaian has been elected to serve as rapporteur on the Bureau of the Intergovernmental Council of the International Programme for the Development of Communication (IPDC at the Headquarters of UNESCO in Paris, France on. Mrs. Diana Heymann-Adu who was a Senior Lecturer at the…
22th November 2014 / By Ghana High Commission, Windhoek, Namibia Former President John Agyekum Kufuor was last week in Nairobi, the Kenyan capital participating in activities marking the 20th anniversary of the Governing Council of Interpeace, based in Geneva, Switzerland, of which he has been chairman for the past five years. The Ghanaian former President took…
21th November 2014 / By AllAfrica In respect to the passing of two notable Liberian broadcast journalists, the Free Press Movement (FPM), a liberal media policy think-tank within the Press Union of Liberia has announced the suspension of its campaign to democratically remove Kamara Abdullai Kamara as President of the Journalists’ Union for ‘subjecting’ the…
Observatory of Media Pluralism 