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
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...
North Koreans live in 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
Since the beginning of the war in Iraq in March 2003, more journalists have been killed in that country than anywhere else in the world. The situation faced by journalists attempting to cover the events in that country highlight the need for greater international efforts to protect journalists in conflict situations. Journalists fulfil a special role in conflict situations, providing details of...
afrol News, 2 May - Eric Motomu, publisher and editor of Cameroon's English-language tabloid 'The Chronicle' was beaten unconscious by the bodyguard and the driver of prominent opposition leader John Fru Ndi. While being beaten up at an opposition rally, the editor was told that his generally critical reporting of the opposition would not be accepted. Mr Fru Ndi had recently sued the editor for...
Media freedoms have eroded even in some of the world's most established democracies, media advocacy groups said as they prepared to mark World Press Freedom Day on Wednesday. The 16th annual observance comes as many journalists face legal restrictions, intimidation and even violence, although freedoms have increased in some countries. The U.S. military's detentions of journalists without charge in...
2 May 2006 In a message ahead of World Press Freedom Day in a country where more than 70 journalists have been killed in the past three years, the top United Nations envoy in Iraq today called on the new Government to reaffirm its commitment to protect the right of journalists to do their work free from intimidation and threats. Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s Special Representative Ashraf Qazi...
