14 June, 2018 / By Latinamerican Herald Tribune The French-based, international Non-Government-Organization Reporters Without Borders (RSF) organized on Wednesday a street campaign in Paris to draw attention on the Russian government’s freedom of the press track record under the slogan “During the World Cup, the repression continues.” On the eve of the start of the…
13 June, 2018 / by devdiscourse Editors and publishers have painted a challenging picture for the industry, which they attribute to severe political, criminal and other threats. This was the takeaway of a roundtable on Press Freedom, chaired by UNESCO’s director for freedom of expression and media development, Guy Berger. It was part of the…
13 June, 2018 / By The Moscow Times Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has used the international focus on Russia ahead of the World Cup to shed light on the plight of imprisoned journalists. RSF ranked Russia’s press freedom in 148th place out of 180 countries this year. The organization says at least 34 journalists have been killed…
13 June, 2018 / By Noticias Chihuahua El gobernador Javier Corral Jurado presentó, el 31 de mayo pasado, la iniciativa de Ley para la Asignación de Publicidad Oficial del Estado de Chihuahua ante el Congreso del Estado. Luego de su presentación, la propuesta del mandatario estatal tuvo enriquecedoras observaciones que virtieron Organizaciones de las Sociedad…
12 June, 2018 / By Opendemocracy When the Winter Cherry shopping mall in Kemerovo, Russia caught on fire on 25 March 2018, Russia’s citizens found themselves glued to televisions anxious for updates. With 60 dead, among them 41 children, the fire was classified as the second largest in Russia in recent years. However, what the Russian…
10 June, 2018 / By Cristina Vázquez, elpais.com La directora general de À punt asegura que la voluntad es no malgastar ni despilfarrar ni un euro de los valencianos La periodista y filóloga Empar Marco (Godella, 1959) ganó el concurso público a la dirección general de À punt -que sucede a Radiotelevisión Valenciana (RTVV)- en febrero de…
9 june, 2018 / By freepresskashmir.com ‘I never thought the day would come when in my own country, I would be told to hire private security’ Barkha Dutt, a senior journalist Indian told platform Newsclick that she had been receiving veiled threats from ‘powerful people in the establishment’. In an interview with journalist Paranjoy Guha Thakurta on…
8 june, 2018 / By Cherry Agarwal, newslaundry.com For a week now, former President Pranab Mukherjee’s tentative visit to the Nagpur headquarters of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh has been making news. Mukherjee, formerly a Congress leader, had accepted the Sangh’s invite to be the chief guest at the passing out parade of Sangh trainees, much…
7, June, 2018 / By middle-east-online.com Turkish journalists complain of a lack of pluralism in traditional media, dominated by coverage of President Erdogan. ISTANBUL – It’s not an obvious location for a media organisation. A gritty area dominated by car repair workshops in the backstreets of Istanbul. There’s no sign outside — just a photocopied sheet…
7, June, 2018 / By ebu.ch The EBU has welcomed the political deal reached on the revised Audiovisual Media Services (AVMS) Directive. Following months of trilogue discussions, the EBU welcomed the final political agreement and commended the fact that it maintains key provisions of the AVMS Directive to secure access to impartial news, information and major…
7, June, 2018 / By Europa press, lavanguardia.com El Ministerio de Economía y Empresa, dirigido por Nadia Calviño, deberá afrontar una nueva reordenación de la Televisión Digital Terrestre (TDT), como consecuencia del conocido como ‘Segundo Dividendo Digital’, por el que las televisiones deberán mudar de frecuencia y ceder su espacio para impulsar el desarrollo del…
6 june, 2018 / By ghanaweb.com He stresses that the social intervention programmes by the former president when he was in power are still relevant in the development of this country as no president in the fourth republic has been able to roll out such life changing social intervention programmes even though the former president…
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