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Wednesday, April 30, 2008 7:26 PM

Press Freedom in Decline: Freedom House report

Here is the advance copy of the annual Freedom House report on press freedom. http://www.freedomhouse.org/template.cfm?page=362 Things are not looking up for our profession. Click HERE to watch a VOA story about the report.
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Wednesday, April 30, 2008 7:17 PM

Getting away with Murder -- CPJ Rankings on Dangerous Places to be a Journalist

http://www.cpj.org/impunityindex/index.html
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Wednesday, April 30, 2008 9:40 AM

WORLD PRESS FREEDOM DAY 2008: FOCUS ON ACCESS AND EMPOWERMENT

A discussion of World Press Freedom Day from IFEX:     You have to wonder what is left to celebrate in Zimbabwe on the eve of World Press Freedom Day on 3 May. More than four weeks and counting, Zimbabweans still don't know who won the presidential
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Sunday, April 27, 2008 2:32 PM

Self-Censorship in Hong Kong Rises Again on Tibet and Right to Demonstrate

Looks like self-censorship is alive and well in Hong Kong.   Here is an article from the South CHina Morning Post about how an article on Tibet was denied publication in Hong Kong by the Law Society.   The author of the Tibet article
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Sunday, April 27, 2008 12:44 AM

Saudi Blogger Freed

(CNN) -- A Saudi Arabian blogger detained in December, ostensibly because he supported reform advocates accused by the Saudi government of backing terrorism, has been released, a fellow blogger posted Saturday. Web sites like this one pushed for Fouad
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Saturday, April 26, 2008 9:30 PM

International fellowships for journalists

2008 Hong Kong Journalism Fellowships Dates: Sept. 11-27, 2008 Theme: These fellowships help American journalists better understand the diverse and complex political, economic, social and cultural issues of mainland China and Hong Kong through meetings
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Friday, April 25, 2008 4:52 PM

Petition to support press freedom in China

Usually online petitions -- as we all know -- are useless but in this case this can be more of a learning experience for people looking into the issue of freedom of press and expression in China. This is from Hong Kong. Dan Dear friends,Please sign
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Thursday, April 24, 2008 5:13 PM

More on the jihadists and the Internet

Talk about fate. Early today (4/24) I posted an RFE/RL study on how the jihadists are using the Internet. And now Media Channel.org is featuring a story from Yemen on the same topic. Different take but same topic. Enjoy: http://www.mediachannel.org/wordpress/2008/04/24/al-qaeda%e2%80%99s-pr-strategy-on-the-internetfree-propaganda
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Thursday, April 24, 2008 5:51 AM

Interesting report on jihadist groups use of Internet

Thanks to the blog Abu Aadrvark George Washington University prof Marc Lynch, I saw an interesting study commissioned by Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (yes, they still exist) about Al Qaeda  uses the Internet to get its message across.
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Wednesday, April 23, 2008 1:22 AM

TAIWAN: Reporters may refuse to disclose sources in court

Looks as if Taiwan will get a shield law before we do. Media workers will have prosecutorial immunity if an amendment to the Code of Criminal Procedure passes The China PostThursday, April 17, 2008 TAIPEI, Taiwan --- Kuomintang lawmakers proposed
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Sunday, April 06, 2008 12:45 PM

Keeping track of freedom of expression and access

Wikipedia and online petitions are hardly the things that make for good journalism but these two come together to press an important issue of freedom of speech and freedom of access to information. On Wikipedia, it now appears that Beijing is allowing
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Wednesday, April 02, 2008 11:50 AM

Beijing Games and Media Freedom

The Beijing Olympic games are just a few months away and so far we have not seen practical examples of the promised relaxing of the rules for Chinese and foreign journalists. The Beijing government has always been very clever with the way it deals
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Wednesday, April 02, 2008 11:45 AM

Afghanistan governemnt going after private media

The Afghan government is waging a campaign to do in a private television station because it airs programs of men and women dancing together. The Information and Culture Ministry announced March 30 that the broadcasting of some Indian films and TV series,
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Wednesday, April 02, 2008 11:16 AM

Journalism Groups Condemn UN Vote on Censorship

First a few comments.   No one should be surprised that a United Nations' body voted to support a proposal that was blatantly opposed to freedom of expression. The whole history of the UN and its constituent bodies have a long history of supporting
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