Posts Tagged ‘Media’
August 6th, 2010
The ruling African National Congress (ANC) is
proposing a law which would entitle the South African government to prevent journalists investigating or publishing anything deemed to be in the national interest. The law would introduce a Media tribunal, where the government would effectively judge what the media could publish. Another section would force journalists to reveal confidential sources. Critics claim p
ress freedom is already under threat in South Africa; recently journalist Mzilikazi wa Afrika was arrested just days after reporting on a large property deal undertaken by the National Police Commissioner Bheki Cele. Cole had vocally attacked wa Afrika over the article.
August 2nd, 2010
Three opposition radio and television stations
were silenced for 48 hours on 26 July without a reason by a commando unit of five men in Kinshasa, the capital city of the Democratic Republic of Congo. The signals of Canal Congo Télévision (CCTV), Canal Kin Télévision (CKTV) and Radio Liberté Kinshasa (RALIK) were cut off. However no equipment was damaged or taken.
July 22nd, 2010
Hugo Chavez’s government has taken control of a
45.8 per cent share of its biggest critic, Globovison. President Chavez has been
involved in various actions against
the independent press in the past. Since the acquiring the shares Chavez has declared that the Venezuelan government is in a position to
nominate a member of the board of directors. The President of Globovision, Guillermo Zuloaga, currently faces arrest in Venezuela and resides in Miami. In response to the news he declared that
Globovision will stay critical of the Chavez regime.
July 5th, 2010
Please join us for an exclusive discussion on broadcasting, free expression and the BBC with Mark Damazer, controller BBC Radio 4 and BBC Radio 7, on Monday 12 July at 6.30pm. Reflecting on his tenure shortly before leaving the BBC, Damazer will be in conversation with John Kampfner, chief executive of Index on Censorship. The event will also mark the publication of a special Index issue on radio, “Radio Redux: freedom on the airwaves“.
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June 16th, 2010
I’m A Celebrity Get Me Some Privacy!
1 July
7.00pm
Goldman Sachs
£35 (£25)
YN Lawyers Presents a seminar on the developing law of privacy looking amongst other things at balancing freedom of expression and privacy and the consequences that these changes have had for the media.
Speakers Include:
Amber Melville-Brown – expert media lawyer
Ronald Thwaites QC
Mark Moody – editor of OK!
Lorraine Tighe – Former contestant on The Apprentice
Joshua Rozenberg – journalist
More Details at http://www.norwood.org.uk/How-you-can-help/events/yn/yn-lawyers-im-a-celebrity
Goldman Sachs
120 Fleet Street
EC4A 2QQ
April 28th, 2010
International human rights monitors are to
investigate the murders of journalists in Honduras. Since the beginning of March,
seven reporters have been shot dead in the country. A delegation from the
Inter-American Commission on Human Rights will travel to Honduras in May to determine whether the murders were related to their work. There have been suggestions that the killings may be
connected to organised crime in the country.
April 14th, 2010
On 11 April, Mauricio Medina Moreno, director and founding member of the indigenous community radio CRIT 98.0 FM Estéreo,
was murdered in his home in the town of
Ortega. Medina, 50, died of multiple knife wounds. Although police described the murder as a ‘crime of passion’,
some organisations said that this label is often applied in order to avoid investigating links to a journalist’s work. (RSF)
April 1st, 2010
The Chinese government has reportedly
invested £4bn to expanding the nation’s news networks and media channels. Newspapers such as the China Daily are to be remodelled to resemble British broadsheets, and China Central Television (CCTV), the country’s largest state television network, is to increase their service to include broadcasts in Russian and Arabic in addition to its English, French and Spanish transmissions. The move comes after President Hu Jintao’s remark on the
“increasingly fierce struggle in the domain of news and opinion” in the global media circuit. Click
here for an in-depth look at China’s conflicting approaches to international and national news.
