Press Freedom

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• A Few More Facts about China’s “Fake News” Purge

  
  China Digital Times (CDT) — Authority: 633
  For China Media Project , Qian Gang reports on the purge of four newspapers for publishing allegedly “fake” news about the concentration of wealth in the hands of the children of China’s political elite: The reports in question were branded as “false” on the basis of two sentences in particular. The ...
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• Roy Greenslade: Davies speaks on commerces effect on journalism

  
  Media: Greenslade | guardian.co.uk — Authority: 144
  Commercial imperatives have elbowed out truth in the British media. Thats one of the central contentions by Nick Davies - author of Flat Earth News - in his (Tony) Benn journalism lecture in Bristol at the weekend. Hear the full speech here . Source: IndyMedia Regional & local newspapers ...
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• Roy Greenslade: Philippines massacre - journalists hold protest in Manila

  
  Media: Greenslade | guardian.co.uk — Authority: 144
  Hundreds of Filipino journalists and human rights activists staged a protest near the presidential palace today, demanding justice for colleagues who were among 57 people massacred last week. "We call for justice," Benny Antiporda , head of the National Press Club, said in a statement. "The whole world has shown its ...
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• Ampatuan massacre: A challenge of conscience

  
  PinoyPress — Authority: 134
  The brutal, indiscriminate mass murder on Monday in Ampatuan town, in Maguindanao province, raises the ultimate challenge of conscience. It carries the culture of impunity at work in this country to such levels of horror that, if it remains unpunished for long, can send the nation into an inexorable descent into ...
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• Maguindanao massacre: Why Andal Ampatuan Jr. thought he could get away with it

  
  PinoyPress — Authority: 134
  The reason Monday’s incident became international news is because of the high number of victims killed all at once and because so many were journalists and women. Had the killings been spread out over weeks and months, very few outside of the province would have heard of it.
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• FFFJ Mission: The 30 Media Martyrs of Maguindanao

  
  PinoyPress — Authority: 134
  The 30 media workers comprise more than half of the 57 confirmed casualties of what is now known as the Maguindanao Massacre, according to a list compiled and verified by the Humanitarian and Fact-Finding Mission of the Freedom Fund for Filipino Journalists (FFFJ), a network of independent media organizations, ...
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• Ejected from Singapore

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 988
  One correspondent ponders why his working visa was not renewed by the city-state Unfriendly reporters are jailed, assaulted or assassinated by the governments of Burma, Iran and Sri Lanka. Singapore , with pretensions to being a global "media hub", prefers tools of repression that are more subtle, yet have the same ...
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• Government must dismantle Ampatuan power base

  
  PinoyPress — Authority: 134
  A week after the gruesome massacre that claimed 64 lives in Ampatuan, Maguindanao, various cause-oriented groups today will hold a March Against Impunity to demand justice for the victims. The groups will assemble at the University of Sto. Tomas before marching toward the Don Chino Roces Monument in Mendiola Bridge. ...
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• Instead of running again, Arroyo should step down over killings

  
  PinoyPress — Authority: 134
  Saying that the ultimate responsibility for the climate of impunity rests with Gloria Macapagal Arroyo, the umbrella group Bagong Alyansang Makabayan today called on the president to step down and desist from pursuing public office in the 2010 elections.Disclaimer | What you are reading is either a press release/ ...
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• France condemns Ampatuan massacre

  
  PinoyPress — Authority: 134
  MASSACRE IN MINDANAOSTATEMENT BY THE SPOKESMANOF THE MINISTRY OF FOREIGN AND EUROPEAN AFFAIRS(Paris, November 24, 2009)France condemns in the strongest terms the heinous massacre perpetrated yesterday in the Philippine province of Maguindanao, which, according to the latest reports, has reached a total of forty-six ...
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• Online novel details struggle for press freedom in Cuba

  
  Thaindian News — Authority: 729
  Madrid, Nov 28 (EFE) Exiled Cuban author and journalist Julio San Francisco documents the struggle for press freedom in his homeland in “Prensa Gulag”, an online novel that the co-founder of an independent news agency on the island has been working on for much of his life.With this novel, now available at ...
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• Dispatch reporter in violence threat

  
  Dispatch Now 24/7 — Authority: 440
  A Dispatch reporter has opened a case of intimidation with the police after he received threatening phone calls following a report in the paper this week about Abathembu King Buyelekhaya Dalindyebo, writes Thanduxolo Jika.On Tuesday, the Dispatch reported how Dalindyebo was asked to broker peace between the villagers ...
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• F**kwit EuroMP files criminal libel charges against a Latvian journalist

  
  Free Speech Emergency in Latvia — Authority: 100
  I use the following language deliberately, to make a point: Aleksandrs Mirskis, a fuckwit asshole Member of The European Parliament from the Harmony Center party alliance (who are, actually, not a bunch of fuckwits, although one could differ with them on many issues) has filed criminal libel charges against former ...
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• SEAPA_Empty Promises

  
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• Roy Greenslade: Irish Times editor disappointed at costs ruling

  
  Media: Greenslade | guardian.co.uk — Authority: 144
  Freedom of the press depends on responsibility, protection of sources and a newspapers financial security, Irish Times editor Geraldine Kennedy said last night. It followed a day in which the paper had been ordered by the supreme court to pay €600,000 in legal costs despite having won the case, which hinged ...
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• Roy Greenslade: Philippines massacre - 27 journalists thought to have died

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 988
  The latest assessment of the people killed in the Philippines massacre claims that 27 journalists were among the total of 57 deaths. It is possible that the journalistic toll may rise. There is difficulty in identifying some bodies, according to the National Union of Journalists of the Philippines. Two journalists ...
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• Economies still struggling, jobless, hungry people on the rise

  
  Davao Today — Authority: 142
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• For Journalists, A Reminder in Perilous Times

  
  Davao Today — Authority: 142
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• Massacre takes heavy toll on community journalism

  
  Davao Today — Authority: 142
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• IFJ Joins IFEX Community to Denounce Violence Against Women of Courage

  
  Davao Today — Authority: 142
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