News headlines for “Mainstream Media”, page 46
Grilled for a Retweet: Press Freedom in Kenya
- Inter Press Service
NAIROBI, May 02 (IPS) - In early January, Judith Akolo, a journalist with the Kenya Broadcasting Corporation, found herself in unfamiliar territory when she was summoned and grilled by the Directorate of Criminal Investigations for retweeting a Twitter message.
Media Freedom in Africa Remains Under Attack
- Inter Press Service
JOHANNESBURG, Apr 30 (IPS) - Imagine a world without the media, where we have no verified information about what's going on around us. Where everything is hearsay and gossip, where there are no trusted sources of information. It would be hard to operate in a world like that: to make decisions about what to do about the things that affect our lives.
Violence Against Women Journalists Threatens Media Freedom
- Inter Press Service
NEW YORK, Apr 28 (IPS) - For women journalists, violence and intimidation don't just happen in conflict zones, they are every day experiences.
How We Can Keep Press Freedom from Withering Away?
- Inter Press Service
ROME, Apr 28 (IPS) - Media freedoms appear increasingly under siege around the world, with concerning signs that achieving middle-income status is no guarantee for an independent political watchdog in the form of the press.
Times of Violence and Resistance for Latin American Journalists
- Inter Press Service
MEXICO CITY, Apr 27 (IPS) - Mexico is the most dangerous country in Latin America for journalists. In 2015 it accounted for one-third of all murders of reporters in the region, and four more journalists have been added to the list so far this year.
Critics Become Terrorists in Erdoğan's Turkey
- Inter Press Service
ANKARA, Turkey, Apr 19 (IPS) - Speaking to a group of lawyers in Ankara on April 5, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan made the controversial suggestion that Turkey should consider stripping citizenship of what he termed "supporters of terrorism". In his speech, broadcast live on television, the Turkish President stated that: "We need to be decisive to take all the necessary measures including stripping of citizenship for terror organisation supporters."
Press Freedom in Peril
- Inter Press Service
JUBA, South Sudan, Mar 30 (IPS) - A single phone call from an irate security official is enough to shutdown a newspaper in Sudan. Security agents sometimes employ unorthodox methods: they storm the premises of a newspaper or a printing press and confiscate print runs in full view of employees. No reasons are provided. And there is no legal recourse.
Every Day Is a Good Day to Hear More Women in the Media
- Inter Press Service
ROME, Mar 07 (IPS) - On International Women's Day newspapers and radio shows are filled with women's voices. Yet too often the media's attention is fleeting.
Free Speech and Free Media: Help or Hindrance to Development? / Part 2
- Inter Press Service
DHAKA, Bangladesh, Feb 26 (IPS) - The second part: the relevance of free speech and free media to development. Freedom is the central object of development, says Amartya Sen. He argues that development cannot simply be seen as GNP or industrialization or social modernization.
Free Speech and Free Media: Help or Hindrance to Development? / Part 1
- Inter Press Service
DHAKA, Bangladesh, Feb 25 (IPS) - The greatness of a newspaper is not measured by the size of its readership but by its influence and credibility. That is why the New York Times or the Guardian are better known and more respected than the tabloids in their respective countries with ten times their circulation. Like those broadsheets, The Daily Star too strives for quality over circulation, influence over income and credibility over sensationalism.
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