News headlines for “Mainstream Media”, page 61
Fourth Estate Under Fire in Bangladesh
- Inter Press Service
DHAKA, Jul 16 (IPS) - When it comes to media, Bangladesh boasts some impressive statistics: it has the largest number of outlets among the world's least developed countries (LDCs), including 50 nationwide dailies, of which eight are English-language newspapers; 25 television channels; seven FM radio stations; 14 community radio channels and over 300 regional magazines published in English and Bengali.
Honduras Shaken by High-Profile Murders
- Inter Press Service
TEGUCIGALPA, Jul 12 (IPS) - Honduran society remains shocked at the tragic fate of Aníbal Barrow, a journalist and university professor whose body was dismembered and scattered around a lake in Villanueva, in the northern province of Cortés.
Big Brother Is Watching Us
- Inter Press Service
PARIS, Jul 12 (IPS) - We were afraid this would happen. We had been warned by books (George Orwell's "1984") and films (Steven Spielberg's "Minority Report") that with the progress being made in communication technology, we would all end up under surveillance.
Q&A: No Justice for Tortured Bahraini Journalist
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Jul 10 (IPS) - In May 2011, almost a year and half after a Tunisian street vendor's self-immolation sparked waves of revolution still rocking the Middle East, Bahraini journalist Nazeeha Saeed was tortured during her 13-hour detention before signing a confession she was not allowed to read.
Spy Contractor Bug in Ecuador Embassy Fails to Stop Wikileaks
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Jul 05 (IPS) - Spy equipment from the Surveillance Group Limited, a British private detective agency based in Worcester, England, has been found in the Ecuadorean embassy in London where Julian Assange, editor of Wikileaks, has taken refuge.
Snowden Is No Trifling Matter
- Inter Press Service
MONTEVIDEO/WASHINGTON, Jul 04 (IPS) - The suspicion that Bolivian President Evo Morales' jet was carrying Edward Snowden, the former intelligence contractor who has become Washington´s public enemy number one, triggered an unprecedented international incident.
Media Scholars Decry Financial Crisis, Call for Action
- Inter Press Service
DUBLIN, Ireland, Jul 01 (IPS) - Communications scholars from around the world deplored the global financial crisis and called on their peers to take more active roles in the search for solutions at a recent four-day conference in Dublin, Ireland.
Mozambicans Living in the Shadow of a Secret State
- Inter Press Service
MAPUTO, Jun 29 (IPS) - In downtown Maputo, the walls are covered with the local newspaper, Verdade, and a range of people, young and old, male and female, are reading it. Verdade, which means Truth in Portuguese, is a free weekly newspaper that is pasted on the walls of buildings in Mozambique's capital.
South Sudan’s ‘State Actors’ Turn on Journalists and Aid Workers
- Inter Press Service
JUBA, Jun 27 (IPS) - Since age 18, Zechariah Manyok Biar fought in the revolutionary army that won South Sudan's independence from Sudan in July 2011. But now the 28-year-old is in exile from the country he helped liberate .
Trapped Between Political Persecution in Eritrea and Misery of Refugee Camps
- Inter Press Service
BANJUL, Jun 22 (IPS) - In February 2013, 20-year-old Mohamed*, like hundreds of thousands of other Eritreans, fled the brutal dictatorship in that East African nation in search of a better life in neighbouring Sudan.
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