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• Ethiopia: "JOURNALISTS ARE NOT TERRORISTS"

  
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  Reporters Without Borders has just visited Ethiopia,where two Swedish journalists, Kontinent news agency reporter Martin Schibbyeand photographer Johan Persson, were sentenced to 11 years in prison on 29December on charges of entering the country illegally and supporting terrorism. During the visit, from 9 to 12 ...
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• Condemnation grows over police shooting at journalist…

  
  filtre — Authority: 132
  Leading global media institutions that work to safeguardpress freedom have joined this newspaper’s editorial leadership in condemningTuesday evening’s police shooting at Daily Monitor photojournalist IsaacKasamani. The global media entities are pressing for a fullinvestigation into the incident in which Mr ...
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• PCC faces grilling at Leveson Inquiry next week

  
  The Wire — Authority: 494
  The Leveson Inquiry will focus on the role of regulators next week when representatives from the Press Compliants Commission, media regulator Ofcom and the Advertising Standards Agency will give evidence.On Monday the current director of the PCC, Stephen Abell, will appear at the inquiry, as well as former director ...
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• How The People revealed the Malay massacre

  
  Media: Greenslade | guardian.co.uk — Authority: 118
  Todays Guardian story about the massacre of 24 unarmed people in Malaysia in 1948 reminded me of a great piece of investigative journalism by The People. When the shooting of the Malay villagers by British troops was first revealed by the paper it suffered severe criticism from the government, assorted politicians ...
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• Does Egypt want a free press like ours?

  
  The Wire — Authority: 494
  I was chatting to an Egyptian journalist, George al Masry, recently. He works for Al gomhuria, the state-owned Egyptian daily newspaper and has been active in the Tahrir Square revolution.He is now helping to establish a free press in a country where the media has been heavily controlled.He had just read one of my law ...
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• Uganda drops in press freedom ranking…

  
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  Alleged brutality by security forces against journalistsand proposed draconian legislation against newspapers have plunged Uganda 43places lower in the latest press freedom ranking by the Paris-based ReportersWithout Borders (RSF). The RSF report was released yesterday, a day after DailyMonitor newspaper ...
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• Ugandan photojournalist shot at from police van…

  
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  Ugandan authorities must hold to account members ofsecurity forces who fired Tuesday on a photojournalist covering their attack onthe motorcade of opposition leader Kizza Besigye, the Committee to ProtectJournalists said today. Isaac Kasamani, a photojournalist with the independentDaily Monitor, said men in ...
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• World Press Freedom Rankings: Philippines 140th

  
  prudent investor newsletters — Authority: 120
  Reporters without borders recently released the Press Freedom index. The press release goes … This year’s index sees many changes in the rankings, changes that reflect a year that was incredibly rich in developments, especially in the Arab world,” Reporters Without Borders said today as it ...
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• Press freedom index: big falls for Arab trio in year of protest

  
  top99news - breaking news from the world top newspapers — Authority: 162
  http://www.guardian.co.uk Press freedom index: big falls for Arab trio in year of protest Syria, Bahrain and Yemen fall backwards as uprisings fail to secure democracyThree Arab countries where popular risings have been quashed have achieved their worst-ever rankings in the annual press freedom index. But ...
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• Press freedom index: big falls for Arab trio in year of protest

  
  Media: Greenslade | guardian.co.uk — Authority: 118
  Syria, Bahrain and Yemen fall backwards as uprisings fail to secure democracy Three Arab countries where popular risings have been quashed have achieved their worst-ever rankings in the annual press freedom index. But the falls by Syria, Bahrain and Yemen are among many changes that reflect a year of unrest and ...
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• Burma: Censors tighten grip ahead of by-election

  
  Index on Censorship — Authority: 528
  New restrictions are being imposed on the Burmese media, despite earlier calls from the country’s censor chief to ease restrictions. Ahead of April’s by-elections, Tint Swe, director of the Burmese Press Scrutiny and Registration Division, warned newspaper editors that “action will be taken” against ...
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• Dominican Republic journalist jailed for libel

  
  top99news - breaking news from the world top newspapers — Authority: 162
  http://www.guardian.co.uk Dominican Republic journalist jailed for libel A radio journalist in the Dominican Republic is facing jail after being found guilty of libel. Jhonny Alberto Salazar, who broadcasts for Vida FM, was convicted of libelling lawyer, Pedro Baldera Gomez, on air. published date:Wed, ...
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• Call to end ‘satellite uplink jamming’

  
  top99news - breaking news from the world top newspapers — Authority: 162
  http://www.guardian.co.uk Call to end ‘satellite uplink jamming’ Five of the largest international broadcasters, including the BBC, have called on delegates to the World Radiocommunication Conference in Geneva to take action over a practice known as “satellite uplink jamming. “This is the ...
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• Dominican Republic journalist jailed for libel

  
  Media: Greenslade | guardian.co.uk — Authority: 118
  A radio journalist in the Dominican Republic is facing jail after being found guilty of libel. Jhonny Alberto Salazar, who broadcasts for Vida FM, was convicted of libelling lawyer, Pedro Baldera Gomez, on air. He accused the lawyer, who works for the Human Rights Commission of Nagua, of defending thieves. ...
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• Call to end satellite uplink jamming

  
  Media: Greenslade | guardian.co.uk — Authority: 118
  Five of the largest international broadcasters, including the BBC, have called on delegates to the World Radiocommunication Conference in Geneva to take action over a practice known as "satellite uplink jamming." This is the intentional interference by states to block transmissions in order to prevent messages ...
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• Swaziland editor fired from king’s newspaper

  
  top99news - breaking news from the world top newspapers — Authority: 162
  http://www.guardian.co.uk Swaziland editor fired from king’s newspaper The editor-in-chief of the Swaziland Observer newspaper group, Musa Ndlangamandla, was fired last week after 12 years. It appears that he fell out with the group’s owner, the king of Swaziland, and the country’s prime minister, ...
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• Swaziland editor fired from kings newspaper

  
  Media: Greenslade | guardian.co.uk — Authority: 118
  The editor-in-chief of the Swaziland Observer newspaper group, Musa Ndlangamandla, was fired last week after 12 years. It appears that he fell out with the groups owner, the king of Swaziland, and the countrys prime minister, Barnabas Dlamini. Ndlangamandla said later that he would "rather eat grass" than work ...
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• Sudan police close two newspapers

  
  top99news - breaking news from the world top newspapers — Authority: 162
  http://www.guardian.co.uk Sudan police close two newspapers Two independent, opposition newspapers, Alwan and Rai al-Shaab, have been closed by Sudan’s security forces without explanation. Alwan, an Arabic-language daily, was closed by order of the Khartoum authorities after it published an interview ...
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• Honduras newspaper source murdered

  
  top99news - breaking news from the world top newspapers — Authority: 162
  http://www.guardian.co.uk Honduras newspaper source murdered A Honduras lawyer who revealed to a newspaper that police were torturing detainees was killed three days after the story was published. José Ricardo Rosales was shot dead on 17 January after telling the newspaper El Tiempo of police ...
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• Egypt, the Year After – Media Revolution Only Beginning-Shahira Amin…

  
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  “One year after the mass uprising that forced formerPresident Hosni Mubarak to relinquish power, Egyptians are still waiting forcomprehensive media reforms that would pave the way for democracy. The militaryauthorities controlling the country in the transitional period have yet toloosen their tight grip on the media ...
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