News headlines for “Mainstream Media”, page 68
MEDIA-ASIA: Community Radio Carves Out Space for Itself
- Inter Press Service
Community radio is moving from the margins to the mainstream in many countries in Asia, carving out spaces from where they respond to public needs ranging from disaster management to gender awareness, cultural identity and belonging.
INDIA: Latest Riots Show Simmering Communal Tensions
- Inter Press Service
This week’s riots in two southern Indian towns highlight how communal tensions in this country of nearly 1.2 billion people simmer just under the surface, exploding at the slightest provocation.
IRAQ: Are Kurds' Days of Kingmaking Over?
- Inter Press Service
In the run-up to Iraq's parliamentary elections next week, the once-united Kurds are not only suffering deep fissures but are expected to lose their privileged kingmaker position after the polls.
RIGHTS: Women More Educated, Not More Equal
- Inter Press Service
When it comes to female education rates, progress has been made around the world, and in many countries girls and young women have outnumbered and outperformed boys and men at all levels of schooling for decades. Nevertheless, these advances have yet to translate into greater equity in employment, politics and social relations.
US-HAITI: Katrina Victims Feel Kinship, Offer Help
- Inter Press Service
Many survivors of Hurricane Katrina, which struck New Orleans and the U.S. Gulf Coast in August 2005, have been seeing their own reflection in media images of Haiti earthquake victims. And despite - or even because of - their own struggle, many feel personally driven to help organise assistance for the people of Haiti.
RIGHTS-GERMANY: 'Catholic Church Protects Paedophile Priests'
- Inter Press Service
The Catholic Church has for decades protected paedophile priests and clerics who sexually abused children from judiciary prosecution, according to German theologians, law experts, and internal church documents.
Q&A: Brazil Leans on South America to Adopt Its Digital TV Standard
- Inter Press Service
Brazil is lobbying hard to get the rest of Latin America to adopt the Brazilian version of the Japanese digital television standard, as Argentina, Chile, Peru and Venezuela have already done.
MEDIA-INDIA: More Women Now, But Few in Top Posts
- Inter Press Service
Young Indian women are increasingly taking to careers in journalism, but this trend is restricted to the metropolises and to non-decision making positions in media organisations, leading women journalists say.
PAKISTAN: Transgenders Make Their Presence Felt at the Workplace
- Inter Press Service
Dressed in women’s attire and a nose-pin errantly positioned on one nostril, 38-year-old Shahzadi adjusts her ‘dupatta’ (scarf) over her head as she enters the office of Cantonment Board Clifton, a provincial government bureau that recently hired her.
THAILAND: Community Radio Stirs Political Passions in Villages
- Inter Press Service
In an age when television continues to dominate national media, including Thailand’s, and gives birth to new celebrities, Kwanchai Praipana is a bit of an anomaly. His rise as a local star in this north-eastern city has been through community radio, the poor cousin of the local media.
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