Media and Issues

Gorakhpur, July 10 (ANI): Indian and Nepali journalists have decided to launch a joint campaign against the evil practice of women trafficking. Attending a "Media Sensitisation" workshop on the problem organised by the United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM) in Gorakhpur, the journalists accepted that the trafficking of women was a horrendous practice quite rampant in South Asia...

If sex, religion and caste are to be taken together, more than two-thirds of the top media professionals in the country come from less than 10 per cent of the population. Hindu upper caste men, who are barely 8 per cent of the country's population, have a majority share of 71 per cent among top media professionals in the country. These findings are from the same survey of the social profile of key...

LONDON, July 4 (IranMania) - An Iranian woman journalist has been banned from working as a reporter for five years for publishing an article on AIDS, her lawyer told the ISNA news agency on Tuesday. "Elham Afrootan was banned from working as a journalist and exercising her social rights for five years because of her 'Let's make AIDS public' article in Tamadon-e Hormozgan weekly," he said, AFP...

Lucknow, June 11: Now, this is a newspaper with a difference. Here, what bleeds doesn’t become a lead. Apna Shehar — this hand-written, free of cost, monthly Hindi newspaper is different, right from its content to the reporting and editing staff. Advertisement Published by an NGO, the content for this newspaper — government policies to uplift the status of the poor and downtrodden — are reported...

The Health Journalism Partnership (HJP) has launched its website to bring together health journalism resources, training opportunities, analyses, distinguished health reporting and a global online "map" of journalism training and support organisations. Internews Network, Panos Institute London and the International Center for Journalists (ICFJ) launched the pilot phase of the partnership at the...

UNITED NATIONS, May 15 (IPS) - Every year, the U.N.'s Department of Public Information (DPI) unveils its list of the world's 10 most under-reported stories, implying that politics, murder and sex scandals still take precedence over poverty, peace-building or economic development. The list, released by the United Nations Monday, covers a wide range of stories -- from the plight of asylum seekers...

Ha Noi (VNA) - A pro-development journalism network, initiated by ActionAid International, was launched in Viet Nam on April 14. The system involves volunteer journalists who wish to contribute to the national cause of poverty alleviation and improvement of living conditions well as to raise the awareness of people from all walks of life about development issues facing the country. According to an...

Reuters has teamed up with the Global Voices Online project to help fund a full-time managing editor and outreach work. The Global Voices project is based at the Berkman Center at Harvard University in the US and aims to foster international discussion through a network of bloggers. Reuters will publish selected content Global Voices on its news websites and will help the project with training and...

JOHANNESBURG, SOUTH AFRICA – It was three school-age siblings, orphaned by AIDS and fending for themselves in rural Swaziland, who were the last straws. They finally made Canadian reporter Stephanie Nolen question the age-old journalistic principle of not giving help to people she encounters while reporting. Every morning these kids, whom Ms. Nolen met last year, would put on their school uniforms...

NEW YORK (FORTUNE) - Forgive the bad pun, but global warming has become a hot topic in the mass media. ABC News spent two days focusing on climate change last month. Time ran a cover story headlined, "Be Worried. Be Very Worried." HBO will show a documentary called "Too Hot Not to Handle" on Earth Day. Next month, Paramount plans to release "An Inconvenient Truth," a theatrical film about former...