2005-2014

BAGHDAD, 3 May (IRIN) - The new government should "reaffirm its commitment to protect the right of journalists to go about their work, free from intimidation and threats," said UN Special Representative for Iraq Ashraf Qazi on Wednesday, on the occasion of World Press Freedom Day. Qazi, who called Iraq "a very risky environment for journalists", expressed his support for the Iraqi media "as it...

A Lebanese broadcaster who lost a hand and a leg in an attempt on her life received an annual press freedom award from the United Nations on Wednesday, with the organisation warning journalists were increasingly at risk. FAVOURITE: May Chidiac is a popular television presenter, whose news bulletins and Sunday programmes – Naharkoum Saïd and Bonjour – on LBC (Lebanese Broadcasting Corp.) are

Suppression of press freedom in Africa has been widespread particularly in the last year. The continued detention of and relentless attacks on journalists by governments continues to be a problem in numerous African states. From Eritrea in the East of the continent to Sierra Leone in the West, Zimbabwe in the South and Egypt in the North, stories of imprisonment, harassment and even killings...

To mark World Press Freedom Day, 3 May 2006, it was announced that a social cause will be listed directly on a major stock exchange for the very first time. Media Development Loan Fund, a New York non-profit organization providing low-cost financing to independent news media in emerging democracies, has teamed up with Swiss bank Vontobel Group and Zurich-based social investment specialists...

Two fired editors of the Canadian Medical Association Journal have been awarded the National Press Club of Canada's World Press Freedom award for 2006. The awards will be presented Wednesday, which is World Press Freedom Day. Former editor Dr. John Hoey and senior deputy editor Anne Marie Todkill were fired in late February after a run-in with the journal's publisher over an investigation which...

Press freedom advocates around the globe observed World Press Freedom Day on May 3 � a day to remind the world of the crucial role a free press plays in strengthening democracies and fostering development. Celebrated each year since 1993, when it was proclaimed by the United Nations General Assembly, World Press Freedom Day is an occasion to pay tribute to journalists who have been killed because...

World Press Freedom Day 2006 provides an occasion for considering the important questions of how a free press can help eradicate poverty and how freedom of expression and press freedom can assist in achieving the MDGs, UNESCO Director-General Koïchiro Matsuura has said. In so doing, it becomes clear that the defence of one fundamental human right – the right to freedom of expression – may

North Korean is the most censored country in the world, a new analysis by the New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has found. The world's deepest information void, communist North Korea has no independent journalists, and all radio and television receivers sold in the country are locked to government-specified frequencies. Burma, Turkmenistan, Equatorial Guinea, and Libya round

LONDON (Reuters) - One-quarter of consumers abandoned a news source over the past year because they lost trust in its reporting, according to a new survey that also found the BBC, Fox News and Al Jazeera the most trusted brands in their respective home regions. Results of a poll of more than 10,000 adults in 10 countries by the British Broadcasting Corporation, Reuters Group Plc and The Media...

SEATTLE – The sun-dappled waters of Puget Sound were calm and sparkling last week, but a few blocks inland, where editors of America's daily newspapers were gathered in annual conclave, it sounded like a perfect storm was besetting their profession. It's been a tough year for the newspaper business. For many newspapers, readership is down and advertising is off. Some major newspapers have laid off...