Archive for the ‘Freedom of the press’ Category

“Sometimes mistakes are made”

Monday, August 29th, 2005

More journalists have been killed in Iraq than in 20 years of conflict in Vietnam, the fighting in the former Yugoslavia, or in in the Algerian civil war in the 1990s (though the killing of 'media assistants' in that last conflict brings the total past that in iraq, for now). When ...

National religious radio station for Ireland

Thursday, July 28th, 2005

The BCI has announced a number of decisions in relation to future commercial radio licensing in Ireland. Most are relatively unspectacular, but note the religious radio announcement at the end:A range of regional youth-driven services will be advertised. The number of these services and the specific make-up of the ...

Omnibus edition

Thursday, July 28th, 2005

I've spent most of the past week or two travelling and entertaining visitors, so I've fallen a little behind in posting various items that I would generally try to cover on this blog, so it's time for a bumper compendium:The website for Radio Research Ireland, a new network of individuals ...

Censorship fears for student publications

Wednesday, July 6th, 2005

The 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals - which covers Illinois, along with Michigan and Indiana - has made a decision that could be problematic for student publications. In essence:The court ruled that the Supreme Court’s 1988 Hazelwood v. Kuhlmeier decision, permitting censorship on high school student newspapers, applies to ...

Deep Throat finally uncovered

Tuesday, May 31st, 2005

So Deep Throat has gone public. The famous source was Deputy FBI Director Mark Felt.That means, incidentally, that the UIUC investigative journalism class got it wrong when they concluded it was Fred Fielding, Deputy Counsel to Nixon. Somehow I don't think that should detract too much, though, from the student ...

Women’s rights in Turkey

Saturday, May 21st, 2005

"These programmes touch a raw nerve", said the RTUK's head, Fatih Karaca, in support of the closures. "They discuss family, children, marital relations - sensitive topics to Turks - in an indecently open way."If you're interested in the public/private sphere division, women's rights or the role of talk shows in ...

IFEX on Uzbekistan and the press

Wednesday, May 18th, 2005

Via IFEX:As reports trickle in about the indiscriminate killing last weekend of hundreds of protesters in Uzbekistan's northeastern city of Andijan, IFEX members say authorities are maintaining an information blockade by expelling journalists from the town and obstructing foreign television news broadcasts. The Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) reports several incidents ...

Irish courts restrict physical access

Tuesday, May 17th, 2005

Over at the Tuppenceworth blog Simon has posted a thoughtful and important piece about pending 'security precautions' at the Four Courts in Dublin:The front door to the Four Courts is the symbol of the public's access to justice. It is the physical manifestation of the means by which the citizens ...

NEW IFJ report on attacks on press

Thursday, May 5th, 2005

The International Federation of Journalists has launched a draft report on attacks on freedom of the press being undertaken in the name of anti-terrorism efforts.

AMARC to track community radio freedom

Tuesday, May 3rd, 2005

Prometheus just forwarded this announcement on their Stubblfefield list: Montreal, 3 May, 2005. The World Association of Community Radio Broadcasters (AMARC), together with media and freedom of expression organizations worldwide today commemorates World Press Freedom Day. In doing so AMARC is pleased to announce the establishment of an international media observatory to ...