{"id":33253,"date":"2012-02-24T12:19:58","date_gmt":"2012-02-24T12:19:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/?p=33253"},"modified":"2012-02-24T12:19:58","modified_gmt":"2012-02-24T12:19:58","slug":"dominican-republic-proposed-law-would-fine-jail-unqualified-journalists","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/?p=33253","title":{"rendered":"Dominican Republic: Proposed law would fine, jail &#8220;unqualified&#8221; journalists"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a title=\"Knight Center: Proposed law would fine, jail Dominican journalists without university degree\" href=\"http:\/\/knightcenter.utexas.edu\/blog\/00-9137-proposed-law-would-fine-jail-dominican-journalists-without-university-degree\" target=\"_blank\">Mandatory membership<\/a> to a professional body for journalists has been proposed in the <a title=\"Index on Censorship : Dominican Republic\" href=\"http:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/tag\/Dominican-Republic\" target=\"_blank\">Dominican Republic<\/a>.\u00a0The\u00a0Dominican Journalism Guild (CDP) proposed mandatory membership which would penalise those who act as journalists without relevant degrees with prison sentences and fines of approximately\u00a0$25,700 (\u00a316,300). The draft bill suggests that media organisations would be able to\u00a0freely contract employees, but only those\u00a0with bachelors degrees or the equivalent from an &#8220;accredited school of journalism&#8221; would be employed as journalists.\u00a0The CDP would also provide the media with a list of employable journalism graduates, according to the bill.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mandatory membership to a professional body for journalists has been proposed in the Dominican Republic.\u00a0The\u00a0Dominican Journalism Guild (CDP) proposed mandatory membership which would penalise those who act as journalists without relevant degrees with prison sentences and fines of approximately\u00a0$25,700 (\u00a316,300). The draft bill suggests that media organisations would be able to\u00a0freely contract employees, but only [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":60,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_mi_skip_tracking":false},"categories":[584,585],"tags":[4355,3594,296,731],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33253"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/60"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=33253"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33253\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33259,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33253\/revisions\/33259"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=33253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=33253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.indexoncensorship.org\/newsite02may\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=33253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}