Argentinian President Cristina Fernandez sent a media reform bill to Congress that would allocate a third of broadcast frequencies to private...
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Philippines: editors receive death threats
Stella Estremera, editor-in-chief and Virginia Agtay, news editor of the Sun Star Davao have both received death threats in the Philippines. The...
Iraq play wins Amnesty award
A play which looks at the war in Iraq from three different viewpoints has won the Amnesty International Freedom of Expression Award. Palace of the...
Climate Camp criticised
Photojournalist Marc Vallée has been criticising Climate Camp’s handling saying on his blog he was forced to wear a “media badge”, and that his...
Xu Zhiyong aide’s status is uncertain
Human rights advocates in China indicated that Zhuang Lu, the office assistant at the prominent human rights law centre Gongmeng may not have been...
Journalist targeted with car-bomb in Corsica
Investigative journalist, Enrico Porsia’s car has been blown up near the Southern Corsican town Porto Vecchio, where he is currently on holiday....
US students in anti-Islam shirt row
A lawyer for a Florida school district says a handful of students have been sent home from schools this week for wearing shirts that read "Islam is...
Rai TV refuse to air critical documentary
In Italy state-owned TV channels have refused to show the trailer of the latest documentary by Erik Gandini, Videocracy, which looks at the rise of...
Kazakhstan editor jailed
Ramazan Yesergepov, the editor of an independent weekly paper in Kazakhstan, Alma-Ata Info, has been jailed for three years on a charge of...
Coverage clampdown on Iran trials
The fourth session of the mass trial of more than 100 opposition figures, including journalists, took place in Tehran yesterday and has been...