December 19, 2013 •
Media and Politics, Press Freedom •
by Angelina Davydova
Vladimir Putin has drastically restructured Russia’s leading state-owned news agency, RIA Novosti, into a new institution, Russia Today, with the aim of promoting the national image worldwide. Head of the new agency Dmitry Kiselyov is...
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December 10, 2013 •
Press Freedom •
by Margaryta Chornokondratenko and Dariya Orlova
On November 21, Mustafa Nayyem, one of Ukraine’s top journalists, called on his Facebook friends and followers to gather at the Monument of Independence at 10.30 p.m. to protest against the government’s decision to back away from...
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December 3, 2013 •
Digital News, Press Freedom •
by Evgeniya Boklage
The recent issue of New Eastern Europe, a news journal with the focus on Central and Eastern European affairs, has a special section on Digital Eastern Europe. In it, the group of authors look at the internet and surrounding technologies...
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November 13, 2013 •
Ethics and Quality, Press Freedom •
by Stewart Purvis
After a career as both a journalist (BBC and ITN) and a regulator (Ofcom) I had come to the conclusion that my colleagues in British journalism weren’t very interested in reading rules that somebody had written for them. How then to...
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July 26, 2013 •
Press Freedom •
by Meera Selva
Governments in 2012 have attacked journalists, created new laws to kill off new independent digital media, and sparked off a huge diplomatic row over teddy bears, according to the New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ)...
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June 5, 2013 •
Press Freedom •
by Philip Di Salvo
Private Bradley Manning appeared in court this week for his role in releasing confidential information to Wikileaks in 2010. He has been held in prison without trial for over 1,000 days. His Martial Court trial, which began on June 3, 2013...
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May 17, 2013 •
Press Freedom •
by Ido Liven
On a rather ordinary June day in 2010 a news item appeared on Ynet, Israel’s most popular news website. The headline read “Who Are You, Mister X? ‘The Prisoner With No Name And Identity’.” Quoting an unnamed...
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March 13, 2013 •
Press Freedom •
by Philip Di Salvo
In occasion of the World Day Against Cyber Censorship, Reporters Without Borders (RWB) has released its annual report on Internet Freedom. It pays special attention to digital surveillance, the tracking of the online activities of single...
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March 4, 2013 •
Press Freedom •
by Stephan Russ-Mohl
In a recent post we discussed the merits and limits of press freedom rankings. One of the rather sad facts is that newsrooms rarely ask how such rankings are created. Researchers seem to be more interested in this essential methodological...
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