press freedom

Welcome to the 'press freedom' tag page at Technorati. This page features content from the farthest reaches of the Blogosphere that authors have "tagged" with 'press freedom'.

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “press freedom”

• Letters: No Iraqi crackdown on media freedom

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 984
  In response to the articles published on 11 November regarding the ruling by an Iraqi court to award damages to the prime minister, Nouri al-Maliki, for an article written by Ghaith Abdul-Ahad and published in the Guardian in April, the Islamic Dawa party (IDP) wishes to clarify that the prime minister and his ...
  20 hours ago

• Why you would be lost without the Press Complaints Commission

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 984
  Baroness Buscombes speech to the annual conference of the Society of Editors Last year Paul Dacre told you what he described was a "grotesquely hubristic confession" that from the moment he was born he had wanted to be an Editor . Im really sorry Ladies and Gentlemen, I cant match that. So perhaps instead as a ...
  20 hours ago

• Tamil Nesan and censorship

  
  Mustafa K Anuar's blog — Authority: 118
  It is common knowledge that, or at least in theory, the role of a newspaper is to inform its readers of events of social import that occur and vital issues raised in society. And so like most dailies, vernacular Tamil Nesan duly reported the killing of five suspected armed robbers by the police last week. And ...
  1 day ago

• Fred Mmembe: a hero in a mad world

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 984
  Editor of Post of Zambia faces prison after his newspaper criticised health minister Fred Mmembe, editor of the Zambia Post, is one of my heroes: utterly straight, utterly fearless, and utterly up to his neck in trouble again. One of his journalists took pictures of a woman giving birth in the street during a health ...
  1 day ago

• Hu Shuli and the Future of Chinese Journalism

  
  China Digital Times (CDT) — Authority: 628
  Both China Media Project and Evan Osnos of the New Yorker look at the departure of Hu Shuli from Caijing and its implications for journalism in China. From Qian Gang at CMP : As could perhaps be expected, media outside China have leapt directly to speculation about the political factors behind Caijing ’s ...
  3 days ago

• Shireen Mazari’s “Shoddy” Journalism Condemned!

  
  Pak Tea House — Authority: 525
  Thursday, November 12, 2009 (The News)Journalists lead dangerous lives in Pakistan. They are targeted by the terrorists whose actions they report and by politicians and bureaucrats whose failings and indiscretions they expose. All this is to be expected. What a working journalist may not expect, however, is to be ...
  3 days ago

• Guardian fined for Iraq reporting

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 984
  Fine over Ghaith Abdul-Ahad report quoting PMs critics makes a mockery of Baghdads claim to be democracy There was widespread condemnation from around the world today of an Iraqi court ruling fining the Guardian for reporting criticism of the countrys prime minister, Nouri al-Maliki. A broad range of leading ...
  3 days ago

• Roy Greenslade: Gabon government suspends six papers

  
  Media: Greenslade | guardian.co.uk — Authority: 139
  Six independent newspapers have been suspended in Gabon for "violations of the principles of professional conduct and ethics" and two other titles were "warned to respect the regulations." Among their "violations" was to criticise the contested September election of Ali Bongo Ondimba as president of the oil-rich ...
  4 days ago

• Petition Old Mutual to stop funding Zimbabwe’s state-controlled media

  
  This is Zimbabwe — Authority: 473
  South African insurance giant, Old Mutual confirmed this week that it was a major shareholder in ZimPapers, the publishing group that produces some of Zimbabwe’s most vitriolic propaganda. According to People Against Suffering, Suppression, Oppression and Poverty (PASSOP) – a South African refugee rights ...
  4 days ago

• Journalist brutally assaulted in Iraq’s Kurdistan Region

  
  EUROPE TURKMEN FRIENDSHIPS — Authority: 483
  Alert Journalist brutally assaulted in Kurdistan  Incident details Assault Nabaz Goran, Editor This is available in: English Français 10 November 2009  (RSF/IFEX) – Reporters Without Borders has called for police to do their utmost to find those responsible for a “cowardly” physical ...
  4 days ago

• Reporting from Iraq: Freedom at risk

  
  Comment is free | guardian.co.uk — Authority: 158
  "We take our freedom for granted. But imagine not to be able to speak or discuss or debate or even question the society you live in," Tony Blair told the House of Commons in March 2003, urging MPs to support the invasion of Iraq. They were fine words. But they ring hollow more than six years after a war held in the ...
  4 days ago

• "It Is the Soldier" Salute Ignores Half Our History

  
  CalAware Today — Authority: 125
  FREE SPEECH/FREE PRESS -- Veterans Day marks a surge in the online circulation of a certain versified tribute to the military as the exclusive source of our freedoms under the Bill of Rights.  Its not clear why those who claim to celebrate veterans feel it necessary to deny the role of civilian contributors to our ...
  4 days ago

• Digital democracy emerging in Cambodia

  
  democracy for burma — Authority: 156
  Niigata, Japan — Press freedom in Cambodia has gradually declined from “partly free” in 2008 to “no freedom” in 2009. But the same cannot be said if the medium of publication is the Internet. Rather, online press freedom is emerging as the new “digital democracy” in the country. Compared to other media ...
  5 days ago

• Roy Greenslade: Journalists must promise not to use the libel law

  
  Media: Greenslade | guardian.co.uk — Authority: 139
  It is time for newspaper publishers, editors and journalists to stop using the libel law. We must all make a pledge never to sue for libel as long as the current law remains on the statute book. I made that point at yesterdays launch of Free speech is not for sale , a report produced by Index on Censorship and ...
  5 days ago

• Hu Shuli, who Led Independent Journalism in China Resigns

  
  China Digital Times (CDT) — Authority: 628
  Peter Ford reports in the Christian Science Monitor: Independent journalism in China, never a robust phenomenon, has taken a body blow with the resignation from the country’s top investigative business magazine of its pioneering editor. Hu Shuli , editor and founder of the biweekly Caijing, stepped down Monday ...
  5 days ago

• On Journalist’s Day in China, Two Warning Bells

  
  China Digital Times (CDT) — Authority: 628
  China Media Project looks as two recent developments that don’t bode well for Chinese journalists: This year, Journalist’s Day has come and gone with little cause for celebration among journalists in China who harbor professional ideals. The holiday was marked, in fact, by two distinct warning bells. The first ...
  5 days ago

• QCs view: Media must fight harder for its freedom

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 984
  " We do not have free speech in Britain, we have expensive speech … Defending a libel action in Britain is vastly more expensive than in any other European country – lawyers will rack up a million pounds in fees for a short trial and our cash-strapped media is increasingly choosing to settle rather than to fight ...
  5 days ago

• Nation Newspaper Creates News Based On Unscientific Cellphone Poll

  
  Barbados Underground — Authority: 474
  Submitted as a comment by Adrian Hinds Two accepted scientific polls with results unfavourable to Mia Mottley, followed by two questionable polls that are favourable to her. The latter enabled by the Nation newspaper; coincident, or a deliberate attempt to create news rather than report it?We should remember the ...
  5 days ago

• Iraqi court rules Guardian defamation

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 984
  Court orders Guardian to pay prime minister damages over article that quoted allegations of increasing authoritarianism An Iraqi court has ordered the Guardian to pay Nouri al-Maliki damages of 100m dinar (£52,000) after supporting a complaint by the Iraqi prime ministers intelligence service that he had been ...
  6 days ago

• Call to reform repressive libel laws

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 984
  Intimidating and out-of-date laws are silencing free speech and scientific inquiry, a new report claims, amid increasing controversy over Englands status as "the libel capital of the world". The report, released today after a year-long inquiry, claims that libel law needs fundamental reform to move away from its ...
  6 days ago

Comments about press freedom