LONDON, Oct. 21 /PRNewswire/ -- The member groups of the Coordinating Committee of Press Freedom Organizations express their deep concern over the continued persecution in Indonesia of Erwin Arnada, who was the editor of the Indonesian edition of Playboy magazine, which has not been published since 2007, over charges that two courts had ruled to be unfounded. This statement is also endorsed by the American Society of Magazine Editors. The Indonesian attorney general's office brushed aside the court findings that there was nothing indecent in the magazine, which we understand did not publish any nude photographs. The South Jakarta District Court ruled in 2007 and an appeals court subsequently confirmed the ruling that Arnada was not guilty of charges of perpetrating indecency. The govern...
A former newspaper publisher in Nigeria said Tuesday in Charleston that many of the country's residents get their news from foreign sources and radio broadcasts. Malam Ismaila Isa Funtua came to Charleston to visit his friend, former Charleston Daily Mail part owner John McGee. The two met years ago as part of the International Press Institute.
In her relentless quest for truth and justice in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, [Amira Hass] is the recipient of the Press Freedom Hero Award from the International Press Institute, the Bruno Kriesky Human Rights Award in 2002, the UNESCO /Guillermo Cano World Press Freedom Prize, and the inaugural award from the Anna Lindh Memorial Fund. Hass has published two books, "Drinking the Sea at Gaza: Days and Nights in a Land Under Siege" and "Reporting from Ramallah: An Israeli Journalist in an Occupied Land.
VIENNA - The International Press Institute says 52 journalists lost their lives in the first eight months of the year because of their jobs - four fewer than during the same period in 2009. Alison Bethel McKenzie, interim director of the Vienna-based watchdog, says Mexico led the so-called Death Watch with 10 fatalities through the end of August, followed by Honduras with nine and Pakistan with six.
In particular, journalists working outside the capital, Bogota, who attempt to investigate corruption and drug trafficking ... continue to face threats, harassment and physical attacks at the hands of rightwing paramilitaries, members of the leftist Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, National Liberation Army, corrupt officials, drug traffickers, and other common criminals," according to the International Press Institute. [...] the climate varies considerably because of altitude. * About 42 percent of all exports (petroleum, coffee, coal, nickel, emeralds, apparel, bananas and cut flowers) are sent to the U.S. * According to the U.S. government, 49 percent of the people in Colombia live below the poverty line. * Independence Day (from Spain in 1810) is celebrated July 20. * The co...
Issues of "real concern," such as Western poaching of Africa's best and brightest talent, were being ignored as the world's media focused on wars and poverty, Mlambo-Ngcuka told the annual world congress of the International Press Institute (IPI) in Edinburgh on Monday.
LONDON, Aug. 13 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Six global organizations have announced their support for a set of principles designed to foster greater transparency in the dealings between public relations professionals and the media, and to end bribery for media coverage throughout the world. The organizations are the International Press Institute, the International Federation of Journalists, Transparency International, the Global Alliance for Public Relations and Communications Management, the Institute for Public Relations, and the International Public Relations Association. The principles, embodied in the Charter on Media Transparency developed by the International Public Relations Association, are that:
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