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Posted by Alastair Reid on 07/01/15New rules give right to tweet, blog and film council meetings
Openness of Local Government Regulations only apply to England and follow several complaints from reporters and community bloggers
Posted by Paul McNally on 06/08/14Russia Today team 'refused entry to arms fair over tweet'
A team from Ruptly, RT's video agency, says their press credentials revoked for including the #stopDSEI hashtag in a personal tweet linking to content
Posted by Alastair Reid on 12/09/132003-2013: A decade of change for journalism in Iraq
From a blossoming of new media through civil war and the digital revolution, this feature looks at the journey of Iraq's media over the last ten years
Posted by Alastair Reid on 19/03/13Reporters Without Borders launches site for censored content
Press freedom group Reporters Without Borders has launched a website on which it says it will 'post content that has been censored or banned or has given rise to reprisals against its creator'
Posted by Rachel McAthy on 28/11/12Press freedom protest at World Editors Forum in Kiev
Protestors hold up paper signs such as 'stop censorship' as the Ukrainian president takes to the stage to deliver his speech at the World Editors Forum
Posted by Rachel McAthy on 03/09/12CPJ launches fellowship in honour of former chair Paul Steiger
The six month fellowship aims 'to give budding journalists an opportunity to contribute to the defense of press freedom and learn about the challenges journalists face around the world'
Posted by Rachel McAthy on 14/06/12BBC accuses China of 'deliberate' jamming of World News
BBC World News director says channel has been subject to 'deliberate electronic interference' in recent days
Posted by Paul McNally on 04/05/12RSF says 21 journalists killed this year
Marking World Press Freedom Day Reporters Without Borders 'condemns the furious pace of physical attacks on news providers'
Posted by Rachel McAthy on 03/05/12CPJ: Countries under the spotlight on World Press Freedom Day
The deputy director of the Committee to Protect Journalists says journalists face two kinds of censorship: state control and intimidation from powerful groups such as militias and drug cartels
Posted by Sarah Marshall on 03/05/12Ferial Haffajee: 'Africa is a place of hope and that is reflected in its journalism'
Editor-in-chief of South Africa's City Press on the strength of African journalism, her campaigning career and her hopes for the coming year on World Press Freedom Day
Posted by Sarah Marshall on 03/05/12Eurovision contest chance 'for reporters to shine light on Azerbaijan'
Helena Williams of the International News Safety Institute speaks to Azeri journalists about why the event will get voices heard in Azerbaijan, ranked as one of the top 10 global jailers of members of the press
Posted by Helena Williams on 03/05/12CPJ report: Eritrea tops world censorship league table
New research to coincide with World Press Freedom Day lists the 10 countries in which journalists face the most restrictions
Posted by Paul McNally on 02/05/12Survey: Riot restrictions lower UK press freedom score
A survey by Freedom House also finds 'breakthroughs and pushbacks' in press freedom in the Middle East and North Africa following the Arab Spring
Posted by Sarah Marshall on 01/05/12BBC: Protests report 'may have been censored' in Malaysia
BBC World News says parts of the report appear to have been 'removed from the original BBC version'
Posted by Rachel Bartlett on 01/05/12Press freedom group launches Journalist Security Guide
The online guide, published by the Committee to Protect Journalists is aimed at helping freelance journalists stay safe
Posted by Tom Rouse on 26/04/12Judgment reserved in Dale Farm footage order judicial review
National Union of Journalists says the high court case 'is a defence of press freedom' and journalists will be put in danger if the footage orders are allowed to go ahead
Posted by Paul McNally on 26/04/12Channel 4 News journalists deported from Bahrain
Team detained by police after reporting on anti-government protests during Formula One Grand Prix weekend
Posted by Paul McNally on 23/04/12Bahrain press freedom condemned ahead of F1 grand prix
Some journalists have been refused entry and others are waiting for visas, as government is accused of preventing the media from covering protests
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#wef12 - WAN-IFRA publishes 'report on violence against Mexico's press'
WAN-IFRA has this week published a report called “a death threat to freedom”, which looks at “violence against Mexico’s press”. The report was published on Tuesday (4 September), a day after the organisation’s World Editors Forum presented the Golden Pen of Freedom to Mexican journalist Anabel Hernandez. The report calls on the government to “take [...]
Posted by Rachel Bartlett on 5 September 2012Hugh Grant: Leveson inquiry has shone 'disinfectant sunlight' into 'infected corners'
Hugh Grant, Tom Watson MP and president of the National Union of Journalists Donnacha Delong speak at a rally calling for media reform
Posted by Sarah Marshall on 18 May 2012Voice of America: China's Foreign Ministry questioned on Al Jazeera journalist visa issue
Voice of America has published what it says is a transcript of questions put to the spokesman for China's Foreign Ministry, in relation to Al Jazeera English's report that its China correspondent Melissa Chan had her visa renewal application 'refused'
Posted by Rachel Bartlett on 9 May 2012Index: Hungary faces squeeze on freedoms
Sándor Orbán, the director of the South East European Network for Professionalisation of Media, reports for Index on Censorship on the raft of new laws passed by the ruling Fidesz party and the threat to civil liberties and media freedom
Posted by Joel Gunter on 6 January 2012Pakistan tops another 2011 journalist death toll
The International Federation of Journalists describes 2011 as "another bloody year for media"
Posted by Rachel Bartlett on 3 January 2012Journalists shot dead in Somalia and Russia
The founder of independent Russian newspaper Chernovik has been killed, as has a journalist working for a TV station in Somali
Posted by Rachel Bartlett on 19 December 2011Reporters Without Borders secretary-general to step down in new year
Press freedom organisation Reporters Without Borders announced this week that its secretary-general Jean-François Julliard will step down on 31 January
Posted by Rachel Bartlett on 14 December 2011Two-year anniversary of massacre of 30 journalists in Philippines
Today is also the inaugural International Day to End Impunity
Posted by Sarah Marshall on 23 November 2011'Silencing the messenger is all too often the name of the game': Mark Austin speaks at St Bride's
The address given by ITV News at Ten presenter Mark Austin at St Bride's Church yesterday (Wednesday), for the service to commemorate journalists who have died while covering conflicts across the world.
Posted by Rachel Bartlett on 10 November 2011Index: Take action to end impunity
This coming 23 November will be the second anniversary of the 2009 Maguindanao Massacre in the Phillippines, in which 34 journalists were murdered during election related violence in the country. Last year, on the first anniversary, there was a “global day of action” to commemorate the killings. This year, the second anniversary will also be [...]
Posted by Joel Gunter on 9 November 2011#wef11: 'News industry is in the vortex of a fast changing world'
WAN-IFRA's new president calls for self regulation of the press to maintained in the wake of the phone-hacking scandal
Posted by Rachel Bartlett on 13 October 2011BBC news chief calls for pressure on Iran after threats to journalists' families
BBC issues public statement after journalists' families arrested and harassed in Iran
Posted by Sarah Marshall on 5 October 2011Guardian: How Luke Harding became the reporter Russia hated
The Guardian’s former Moscow correspondent Luke Harding has a lively piece up on his time as the city’s harassed-western-journalist-in-chief. Ahead of the publication of a book by Harding on his quarrels with Russia’s security forces, he describes being intimidated and having his flat regularly broken into, and his deportation and Russia’s u-turn in letting him [...]
Posted by Joel Gunter on 26 September 2011New York Times: No Justice for Anna Politkovskaya
Yesterday’s New York Times editorial was devoted to the case of murdered Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya. Politkovskaya, who became known for her fearless investigative reporting of social issues in Russia and human rights abuses in Chechnya, was killed in her apartment building in 2006. Five years on, no one has been convicted of her murder. [...]
Posted by Joel Gunter on 14 September 2011BBC: Detained reporter is 'physically and psychologically frail'
BBC Central Asian Service journalist Urunboy Usmonov has been detained by Tajikistan authorities since June 13
Posted by Rachel Bartlett on 29 June 2011Index on Censorship: Russian journalist defeats libel claim
Kommersant's political correspondent Oleg Kashin, who spent five days in a coma after an attack, defeated a libel claim after speculating on the identity of his attackers
Posted by Rachel Bartlett on 28 June 2011Reporters Without Borders: Life sentence for Bahraini blogger
Two Bahraini bloggers handed long jail sentences, according to Reporters Without Borders
Posted by Sarah Marshall on 23 June 2011BBC and CPJ: Mexican journalist, wife and son shot dead
It believed Mexican journalist Miguel Angel Lopez Velasco, who wrote for Notiver, has been shot dead along with his wife and son
Posted by Rachel Bartlett on 21 June 2011Index: Polish journalist faces four years in prison for 'insulting the president' of Belarus
Andrey Pochobut of Polish newspaper GazetaWyborcza, faces a prison sentence for defamation and 'insulting the president' of Belarus
Posted by Joel Gunter on 17 June 2011Reporters Without Borders: Journalist killed in Brazil on World Press Freedom day
Press freedom organisation Reporters Without Borders (RSF) reports that a journalist, Valério Nascimento, was shot and killed in Brazil on Tuesday. The day of the shooting was also the day the world shone a light on the dangers and issues facing journalists across the world, for World Press Freedom day. “Nascimento’s murder, which took place [...]
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9 publications proudly flying the flag for satire
In the wake of the terror attack on French magazine Charlie Hebdo, here are nine other newspapers, magazines, websites and podcasts making an impact through smart satire
Posted by Abigail Edge on 08/01/15