News headlines for “Mainstream Media”, page 67
Q&A: Press Ethics Under the Spotlight in the UK
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Nov 01 (IPS) - Upheaval over a new system of press regulation, which envisages stronger government intervention in the media, is posing a growing threat to Britain's age-old press freedom and to that same freedom worldwide.
Kashmiris Demand the Right to Know
- Inter Press Service
SRINAGAR, Oct 30 (IPS) - Bashir Ahmad Malik was flabbergasted when a helicopter carrying an Indian official from Kashmir’s summer capital of Srinagar landed in his resident Drang village, just 17 miles away from its point of departure.
Tough Job? Try Reporting on Corruption in Kazakhstan
- Inter Press Service
WASHINGTON, Oct 26 (IPS) - Lukpan Akhmedyarov, a 36-year-old reporter for an independent weekly in western Kazakhstan who was recently ambushed and nearly killed, was awarded the Peter Mackler Award for Ethical and Courageous Journalism this month – the first journalist from that country to receive international recognition in 10 years.
Rights Report on Iran Highlights Executions, Political Prisoners
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Oct 25 (IPS) - More than a year into his mandate, Ahmed Shaheed, the U.N. Special Rapporteur on Human Rights in Iran, told the Third Committee of the U.N. General Assembly this week that the rights situation in Iran remains critical, especially as it pertains to human rights defenders, journalists, and religious and ethnic minorities.
Internet Becomes Newest Victim of Repression in Kashmir
- Inter Press Service
SRINAGAR, Oct 18 (IPS) - Fayaz Ahmad’s Faim Internet Café in the Sopore township of Indian Kashmir was booming until a year ago, when police entered his premises without warning and seized all his computers.
Q&A: "Indian Reality Is Infinitely Complex"
- Inter Press Service
NEW YORK, Oct 08 (IPS) - One morning, Tarun Tejpal awoke to learn that five hitmen had been arrested for having a contract to kill him. Suddenly, the life of the prominent Indian journalist and editor was turned upside down.
Media Pluralism at Risk of Extinction in Chile
- Inter Press Service
SANTIAGO, Oct 04 (IPS) - The announcement that the La Nación newspaper of Chile is closing down has drawn the attention of journalists, analysts and opposition lawmakers to the heavy concentration of press ownership, now in the hands of only two business groups, and to the lack of regulations to ensure media pluralism.
U.S.: Living with Hate in a Free Market of Ideas
- Inter Press Service
NEW YORK, Oct 03 (IPS) - U.S. President Barack Obama’s unequivocal defence of First Amendment protections of blasphemy and hateful speech during last week’s address to the 67th United Nations General Assembly defied calls from Muslim protesters and some foreign government leaders to ban a controversial YouTube video and support stronger restrictions to religious criticism.
Filipino Netizens Reject Cybercrime Act
- Inter Press Service
MANILA, Sep 29 (IPS) - A newly enacted cybercrime law in the Philippines has raised fears that not only online media but also ordinary netizens could be persecuted for exercising their freedom of expression.
U.N. Chief Jabs Media for Overblown Coverage of Hate Crimes
- Inter Press Service
UNITED NATIONS, Sep 24 (IPS) - When the United Nations commemorated International Day of Peace last week, the celebrations were marred by news of widespread rage in the Islamic world, a continued bloody civil war in Syria, suicide bombings in Iraq and Afghanistan and violent demonstrations in Pakistan, Indonesia and Bangladesh against a video caricaturing the Prophet Muhammad.
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