Media and Issues

The Association of Journalists Against AIDS in Tanzania (AJAAT), has published a gloomy report on the struggle against the HIV/AIDS pandemic at workplaces of media houses in the country. The report follows a survey in 17 media houses based in Dar es Salaam with intention to establish whether media outlets had HIV/AIDS policies at their workplaces or programmes which need attention and serious...

Recent developments in the media highlight the importance of examining and understanding issues relating to gender in the media against the backdrop of globalisation, in general, and media globalisation, in particular. This is easier said than done because it is relatively uncharted territory. While both globalisation and media globalisation have received considerable attention from scholars and...

The second Gender and Media summit closed in Johannesburg Friday with a call for greater media diversity in all areas - ownership, content and audiences, according to a statement from organisers. Held under the theme “Media Diversity: Good for Democracy, good for business” the summit highlighted a number of ways in which the media is failing in one of its core functions - giving voice to the...

Environment comprises a minuscule 0.35 per cent of news on popular Hindi news channels, closely trailing agriculture at 0.4 per cent and health at 0.5 per cent. GREEN-HUED, BUT NOT THAT MUCH: A view of the Sahara Samay newsroom. Sahara Samay, the survey found, also led in terms of diversity in the coverage of news, closely followed by DD News and NDTV Hindi. Diversity of environmental news...

Jakarta - In Indonesia, newspaper readers who are tired of daily politics and endless domestic problems sometimes skip the headlines that makes them frown and turn to the classified advertisements. It is both shocking and amusing. 'Would you like a second honeymoon? Call me, Rosita, a sweet and aggressive woman, sexy, bra size 36C, able to cure premature ejaculation, great service, 250 thousand...

Shillong, Sept 2 (IANS) People with HIV/AIDS in India's northeast blame an insensitive media for the society stigmatizing the problem that has assumed epidemic proportions. 'I have come across journalists refusing to shake hands, sat a few meters away from me, and didn't even look at my eyes during interview sessions. I always thought journalists would help in breaking the stigma,' Vanlalmuana...

RIYADH (Reuters) - They are few in number but determined to make their mark: Women journalists in Saudi Arabia have fought hard to get where they are and say they have more than proved themselves the equal of men. VEIL GOOD FACTOR: Journalists attend a news conference in Riyadh in this October 27, 2002 photo. They are few in number but determined to make their mark - women journalists in Saudi...

JAKARTA, Aug. 14 (UPI) -- The fluctuating relations between the Muslim and Western worlds are now seemingly more difficult, especially since the attacks on the World Trade Centre in New York City on September 11, 2001, popularly known as 9/11. Right after the tragedy which resulted in thousands dead and thousands more injured, condemnation emerged from around the world. Soon after that, Western...

Muslims in UK blame Islamophobia on the portrayal of their religion in the media, a survey has revealed. An overwhelming 92 per cent feel this is either a very significant or significant problem. A significant number of the other respondents surveyed too think it is indeed a problem, with 44 per cent UK public and 40 per cent Jews saying so. THEIR STORY: It was striking that Muslims feel more...

PARIS (Reuters) - A black journalist is due to host the most watched evening news in France on Monday, a first in a country that has been rocked by violent protests in some of its poorest and most ethnically mixed neighbourhoods. Non-white television journalists are common in Britain and the United States but France's ethnic minorities are less visible in news media, particularly on the two...