News headlines for “Mainstream Media”, page 42
Journalism in Nicaragua under Siege
- Inter Press Service
MANAGUA, Mar 30 (IPS) - During the 161st session of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR), an empty chair across from the OAS Special Rapporteur for Freedom of Expression, Edison Lanzas, sums up the Nicaraguan government's relationship with this issue in the country: absence.
Under Fire, Journalism Explores Self-Preservation
- Inter Press Service
PARIS, Mar 24 (IPS) - With widespread attacks on professional journalists and the rise of a fake-news industry, media experts agree that journalism is increasingly under fire. But how can the press fight back and ensure its survival?
Half a Century of Struggle Against Underdevelopment
- Inter Press Service
ROME, Mar 03 (IPS) - The idea of creating Inter Press Service (IPS) arose in the early 1960s in response to awareness that a vacuum existed in the world of journalism, which had two basic aspects.
Community Stations Fight for Frequencies in El Salvador
- Inter Press Service
Feb 27 (IPS) - The Izcanal Radio and Television set is simple and austere, but this TV station made history in El Salvador, being the first, and until now the only one, to make the leap from community radio to community TV channel, in 2006.
Confusion over U.S. Travel Ban Grounds Foreign Correspondents
- Inter Press Service
NEW YORK, Feb 20 (IPS) - New restrictions on immigrants and refugees coming to the United States are also posing challenges for foreign correspondents covering news in the United States. Some have had to indefinitely postpone plans to report on conflicts in the Middle East while others have found an unfriendly reminder of their past treatment as journalists in less free countries.
Sri Lanka Shines Light on Public Sector Governance
- Inter Press Service
COLOMBO, Feb 15 (IPS) - Sri Lanka's long-awaited and much-debated Right to Information (RTI) Act became law this month without much fanfare.
Pakistani Reporters in the Crosshairs
- Inter Press Service
PESHAWAR, Jan 30 (IPS) - The Federally Administered Tribal Areas located on the Pakistan-Afghanistan border remain one of the most perilous places in the world to be a reporter, with journalists walking a razor's edge of violence and censorship.
‘For Trump, Media Is Public Enemy Number One’
- Inter Press Service
ROME, Jan 27 (IPS) - "Alarmed" by the new administration's repeated attacks on the media and blatant disregard for facts in the first three days of Donald Trump's presidency, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has called on Trump and his team to stop undermining the First Amendment and start defending it.
Social Networks in Mexico Both Fuel and Fight Discontent
- Inter Press Service
Right to Information Dead on Arrival at UN
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Jan 19 (IPS) - The 193-member UN General Assembly has been dragging its feet on a proposal that has been kicked around the corridors of the United Nations for over 10 years: a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) providing journalists the "right to information" in a sprawling bureaucracy protective of its turf.
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