Archive for the ‘Freedom of the press’ Category
Monday, September 17th, 2007
I recently got a mail calling for proposals for a symposium on "Media | Literacy | Education" to take place 3rd November in Dublin. Proposals are due by 28th September:We are specifically looking for people to contribute to A) parallel breakout sessions and B) general assembly presentations.
The facilitated parallel breakout sessions ...
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Tuesday, January 30th, 2007
Two disturbing attacks on Community Radio activists today - both from areas that have been much in the news recently.
In Oaxaca two community radio journalists were beaten and one arrested last Wednesday night, while in Nepal there have been attacks on community radio stations (and journalists) for the past week ...
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Sunday, December 31st, 2006
A year-end report from Reporters san Frontières - which notes that 2006 was the deadliest year since 1994 - includes mention of the censoring of 300 community radio stations in Thailand in the aftermath of the coup earlier this year:Thailand recorded the most cases of censorship. After a military coup ...
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Wednesday, October 11th, 2006
It's still October, but already 2006 is looking to set an unhappy record, with the World Association of Newspapers reporting more journalists killed worldwide so far this year (78) than in any full year in the past decade (2004's total was 72). Iraq, unsurprisingly perhaps, has by far the most ...
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Monday, January 2nd, 2006
Just before I came home for Christmas I was Paul's guest on MediaGeek on WEFT. We had intended, originally, to talk about the state of community media in Ireland and Europe generally, but ended up spending most of the show talking about the Data Retention compromise that had just passed ...
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Tuesday, October 18th, 2005
The European Civil Liberties Network, or ECLN for short, is a new group founded by organisations like Statewatch and European Race Audit, along with individuals such as Gareth Peirce. Their initial press conference, launching the group, is due to take place in Brussels tomorrow morning. A timely intervention....
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Monday, September 12th, 2005
Various news items in recent days point towards developments at an EU level regarding data retention. This is, of course, an issue prioritized by Blair in the wake of the London bombings, and I've written on several occasions previously regarding the earlier push for an EU directive requiring long periods ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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