This page brings together all the stories on East Timor that have been featured on the Media Channel, with links to related pages and other resources you might find useful.
Articles 1 to 6 of 6 (with the most recent first)
Transmitting Democracy
Can microphones and solar-powered receivers help the people of newly independent East Timor nurture their infant democracy? Supporters of a new UNESCO and USAID-backed project believe community radio is integral to self-reliance, self-determination and an active, informed and participatory democracy. But the biggest hurdle may be getting the people to participate in the project itself. "It is easy...
From UNESCO - Communication, Information and Informatics Sector, 17 March 2000.
> also about:
Indonesia,
Activism,
Politics
Radio
UNESCO Active In Rebuilding Media
The Paris-based World Association of Newspapers (WAN) and The UN's Cultural agency, UNESCO, are joining forces to help rebuild East Timor's battered newspaper industry, and they are appealing for funds to re-establish a free press in the war-torn country. "Establishing a strong, free press is a vital and urgent priority in the process of building a new democracy on the island," says Timothy Bald...
From International Freedom of Expression Exchange Clearing House, 27 January 2000.
> also about:
Indonesia,
Freedom of Expression
Violence
Recovered (Media) Memory
East Timor may have been consigned to the where-are-they-now? file by many news outlets, but the full story of what the mainstream media knew about Indonesia's dirty little war, and what they didn't do about it, has yet to be told. In "Reporting On East Timor—Too Little Too Late," Pacific Media Watch charges that the media had advance warning about Indonesian Special Forces' plan to wipe out ...
From Pacific Media Watch, 21 December 1999.
> also about:
Indonesia,
News Coverage
Violence
Interview: Covering East Timor
When East Timor exploded and foreign journalists fled, American reporter
Alan Nairn remained behind—to be arrested, it turned out, by the Indonesian army. Nairn's hard-hitting reportage had earned him an unenviable place on a government blacklist. Interviewed
by Media Channel Executive Editor Danny Schechter, Nairn talks
about the press coverage of East Timor—what it did well, what i...
From The Media Channel, 20 December 1999.
> also about:
Indonesia,
News Coverage
At Issue: War And Peace
For journalists, the battlefield isn't just dangerous, it can be deadly. And now we enter the
next millennium having learned that wars can be fatal to independent journalism as well. In this age of greater government control can reporters both report the truth and stay out of jail? Are new information technologies an opportunity for better news reporting or a tool for propaganda? Can the model o...
From The Media Channel, 17 December 1999.
> also about:
Iran,
Yugoslavia,
Cultural Impacts,
Freedom of Expression,
News Coverage
Violence
The Risks Of Pack Journalism
As the violence, and danger, increased in East Timor, journalist left in droves. The reason, suggests news producer John Jirik, is that journalists always travel in droves because the competition model of news outlets means they must all ensure they are getting the same story. Rather than pooling resources to
increase their safety in dangerous situations,
Jirik argues, the news outlets all swa...
From Media Action International, 1 October 1999.
> also about:
News Coverage
This page brings together all the stories on East Timor that have been featured on the Media Channel, with links to related pages and other resources you might find useful.
Articles 1 to 6 of 6 (with the most recent first)
