Media and Issues

The Christian Science Monitor has launched a new long-term initiative to focus greater coverage on the causes and effects of global warming and its impact on climate change. This coverage, in response to the growing public interest in global warming, will appear both in the Monitor's daily newspaper and online at http://www.csmonitor.com/globalwarming/. As part of its global warming coverage, the...

Dakar, Senegal 04/02 - The France-based Panafrican Press Association (APPA) will on 9 April launch a new service called `APPA-ECO` to dispatch economic news from companies and institutions on Africa. "APPA-ECO will help African journalists and journalists in charge of Africa in the Western media to receive free of charge information of enterprises operating in Africa. This service will be run...

The percentage of minority journalists working in US daily newsrooms declined slightly to 13.62 percent this year, according an annual newsroom census. According to the American Society of Newspaper Editors (ASNE), this year the associaiton counted full-time journalists working online for the first time to reflect the industry emphasis on expanding its Web presence. Including online-only...

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Some sports fans may now know as much about global warming as they know about women's swimwear: Sports Illustrated this week tells readers how a warming world is going to change the state of play. The American male's favorite read for its sports coverage and annual swimsuit issue is just one of many U.S. magazines coming out with global warming on their covers as awareness...

March 11, 2007 (RFE/RL) -- More than 60 media representatives from a handful of countries have wrapped up the first day of a conference in the Tajik capital, Dushanbe, on Persian-language media. Organizers hope the three-day gathering will result in the formation of an association of Persian-speaking journalists and find grounds for future cooperation. "Thirty years ago, when I began working as a...

ROME, Italy, February 23 (UNHCR) – Stung by the Italian media's demonising of a Tunisian linked to a recent gruesome murder case, UNHCR is working with the industry to draw up a code of conduct for coverage of refugee and immigration issues. In response to a proposal last month by the refugee agency, interested parties gathered on February 1 at the Rome headquarters of the Italian National Press...

London’s freesheets are now engaged in rubbishing each other over the litter they have been indirectly creating in the city. News International said the attacks on it showed that Associated was “rattled” by the success of thelondonpaper, which recorded a January circulation figure of 436,435 – a rise of 6.19 per cent on December – compared to 400,997 for London Lite, which was up just 0.07 per...

A Dutch journalist has asked an Amsterdam court to convict him for eating chocolate, saying by doing so he was benefiting from child slavery on cocoa farms in Ivory Coast, Reuters reported Friday. Teun van de Keuken, 35, is seeking a jail sentence to raise consumer awareness and force the cocoa and chocolate industry to take tougher measures to stamp out child labour. Children play with an old...

There is a rising tide of harassment of journalists and women’s rights activists in Iran by security officials. The most recent and shocking incident occurred on January 26 this year when 15 women journalists were detained for questioning by Ministry of Intelligence officials as they were about to fly out from Tehran to attend an educational workshop on journalism in India. The workshop was...

An overwhelming 94 per cent of Canadians say newspapers should be published on environmentally friendly paper, according to a poll released by environmental publishing advocates Markets Initiative. The numbers show the importance of the environment for Canadians not only as a voting issue but also in their consumer choices. “The numbers show that Canadian consumer choices involve a strong...