News headlines for “Mainstream Media”, page 41
A Free and Diverse Media is Essential to Protecting Democracy in the 21st Century
- Inter Press Service
LONDON, May 02 (IPS) - Images of protestors flooding the streets – whether in Caracas, Bucharest, Istanbul or Washington DC – send a powerful message to those in power, especially when they are plastered across newspaper front pages.
Repression 2.0: An Updated Global Censorship
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, May 02 (IPS) - Censorship tactics have become more complex, posing new challenges for journalists and non-journalists alike, a new report finds.
Trolling of Women Journalists Threatens Free Press
- Inter Press Service
NEW DELHI, May 01 (IPS) - "It's not what you say that prompts it—it's the fact that you are saying it," says Mary Beard, a Cambridge University classics professor about online trolling. "If you venture into traditional male territory, the abuse comes anyway. It is the many ways that men have silenced outspoken women since the days of the ancients."
‘Fake News’ is not Journalism…
- Inter Press Service
PARIS, May 01 (IPS) - Would you trust your news from any source? How are we able to ensure that ‘fake'(d) news does not overtake the flow of information?
Protection of Journalists Fails in Latin America
- Inter Press Service
MEXICO CITY, Apr 29 (IPS) - Mexican journalist Cecilio Pineda Brito covered drug trafficking issues in a region of the southern state of Guerrero where criminal groups are extremely powerful.
IPS Journalists Who Perished in the Line of Duty
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Apr 26 (IPS) - In the politically-risky world of professional journalism, news reporters are fast becoming an endangered species.
Double standards: Do all journalist lives matter?
- Inter Press Service
Apr 26 (IPS) - Taha avoids giving his last name to journalists, but not out fear of the Sudanese government, whose harassment he fled in 2015.
Worrying about Fake News Has Become All the Rage
- Inter Press Service
ROME, Apr 26 (IPS) - Rogue interests, perhaps even foreign, are said to be trying to interfere with the electoral process in the U.S. and European Union members. Senior government officials glibly endorse what they themselves call "alternative facts" and even openly describe the media as their enemy.
With an Eye on Electoral Violence, Kenya Keeps Tight Rein on Media
- Inter Press Service
NAIROBI, Apr 25 (IPS) - As the clock ticks down to Kenya's general elections slated for Aug. 8, a move by the Kenya Communication Authority (CAK) to make journalists adhere to guidelines on election coverage has elicited fear that the government could be trying to control how they report on the polls.
"We Can't Protest So We Pray": Anguish in Amhara During Ethiopia's State of Emergency
- Inter Press Service
BAHIR DAR, Apr 17 (IPS) - As dawn breaks in Bahir Dar, men prepare boats beside Lake Tana to take to its island monasteries the tourists that are starting to return.
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