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DUBLIN, December 27 (UNHCR) – As a prize for winning an asylum reporting competition among journalism schools in Ireland, UNHCR's Representation in Dublin sent a student journalist to Romania to witness developments in refugee protection on the borders of the European Union. In a joint initiative of the UNHCR offices in Ireland and Romania, the winner visited Bucharest to see developments in the...

As one would expect in a year when one of the underreported stories was our government's covert propaganda campaigns, there's plenty to unravel: stories that should never have been stories, stories whose reporting largely missed the point, and stories barely told at all in mainstream US media. The good news is that, more than ever, mainstream media is no longer the last word in journalism. Foreign...

(Japan Economic Newswire)TOKYO, Dec. 27_(Kyodo) _ Japan's two major media groups on Tuesday opposed a government decision the same day that allows police to decide whether to disclose names of crime victims, saying that anonymity would make news-gathering activities about victims very difficult and could help the police hide matters unfavorable to them. The Japan Newspaper Publishers and Editors...

PESHAWAR: A jirga in Hurmuz tribe has set a 48-hour deadline for the safe recovery of Hayatullah Khan, a journalist, who was kidnapped on December 5 from Mir Ali in North Waziristan. Ehsanullah Khan, brother of the kidnapped journalist, told Daily Times on Monday that the jirga, consisting of tribal clerics and chieftains, gave the deadline to the government. "If Hayatullah is not recovered within...

President Bush has been summoning newspaper editors lately in an effort to prevent publication of stories he considers damaging to national security. The efforts have failed, but the rare White House sessions with the executive editors of The Washington Post and New York Times are an indication of how seriously the president takes the recent reporting that has raised questions about the...

KABUL, 26 December (IRIN) - Regional warlords, coupled with low government presence, continue to threaten freedom of expression in Afghanistan, the country's leading media association warned on Monday in the capital, Kabul. "Journalists are still not considered entirely free. They face pressure and intimidation and violence from warlords in regions still not under the full control of the central...

Each day and every week, a great mass of print journalism is produced in this country -- something all too easy to forget when reading a mere sliver of that output in your local paper or scanning the links on your favorite blog. From that mass, the work of the country's Big Five dailies is usually more than enough to keep us occupied in our pursuit of lively, helpful and quick media criticism. At...

ISTANBUL, Turkey -- A Turkish prosecutor has opened a new case against one of the country's leading Turkish-Armenians for comments he made about an earlier prosecution. Hrant Dink, editor of the bilingual Armenian-Turkish newspaper Agos, was convicted in October of "insulting Turkishness" and received a six-month suspended sentence. The case became one of several prominent prosecutions over speech...

Four executives have resigned from two Taiwanese television stations to show support for a government plan to relinquish its control of the media, as the government failed to meet its Monday deadline for the reforms. The government had planned to sell its 47 percent of shares in Taiwan Television and 75 percent in Chinese Television by Monday, as part of President Chen Shui-bian's 2000 election...

It is a sad day. Indian media from Mumbai and the Southern India made jokes in their editorials on Saurav, West Bengal (Indian State) residents and the Indian communists. They call Saurav’s attitude "Dadagiri" – popularly known as a self-proclaimed leader. They allowed their borrowed Australian coach to show middle finger at all Kolkata residents because they support Saurav. They made jokes of the...