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Public Health Projects to Use Citizen Media to Empower Community Voices
Posted by Global Voices on 02 Jul 2008 | Tagged as: News, Africa, New Media
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By David Sasaki, Global Voices Rising Voices and Open Society Institute’s Health Media Initiative are happy to announce the six newest health-focused citizen media outreach projects. |
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Mugabe In Shock Outburst, Calls UK Reporters “Bloody Idiots”
Posted by Newzimbabwe.com on 02 Jul 2008 | Tagged as: News, Africa, Agenda Cutting
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By Lebo Nkatazo, Newzimbabwe.com President Robert Mugabe flew into an amazing outburst in Egypt branding reporters who hustled him as he left an African Union summit “bloody idiots”. |
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Bloggers Bemoan Zimbabwe’s ‘Stolen’ Election
Posted by Reuters on 30 Jun 2008 | Tagged as: News, Africa, Agenda Cutting
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By Marius Bosch, Reuters President Robert Mugabe’s re-election sparked cries of outrage from Zimbabwean bloggers on Monday and demands for international intervention. |
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Kenyan Govt. Threatens To Shut Radio Station
Posted by Afriquenligne on 27 Jun 2008 | Tagged as: News, Africa, Media Freedom
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By Afriquenligne The Kenyan government has threatened to shut down a radio station for allegedly stoking ethnic tensions that culminated in the post-election violence. |
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Zimbabwe: ‘Worst Time For Journalists In Country’s History’
Posted by Allafrica on 25 Jun 2008 | Tagged as: News, Africa, Media Freedom
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By All Africa Journalists trying to report on Zimbabwe’s violent presidential runoff election have faced the harshest press crackdown in memory, veteran reporters told the Committee to Protect Journalists in “Bad to Worse in Zimbabwe,” a report released on 23 June 2008. |
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Mandela endorses journalism awards
Posted by IJnet on 20 Jun 2008 | Tagged as: News, Africa, Awards
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By IJnet Following the announcement of the first three David Astor Journalism Award winners in January, long-time human rights and anti-apartheid supporter Nelson Mandela endorsed the awards, which honor the late editor of Britain’s The Observer. |
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Uganda: Media Crackdown Taskforce Set Up
Posted by Allafrica on 23 May 2008 | Tagged as: News, Africa, Media Freedom
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By All Africa The Cabinet yesterday constituted a powerful special sub-committee to investigate radios and newspapers accused of giving bad publicity to the ruling NRM government. |
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More Journalists Detained in Zimbabwe
Posted by RTE News on 09 May 2008 | Tagged as: News, Africa, Media Freedom
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By RTE News The editor of a Zimbabwean independent weekly newspaper has been arrested for publishing an opinion piece written by an opposition leader. |
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2007: A Year of Declining Press Freedom in Africa
Posted by African Path on 08 May 2008 | Tagged as: News, Africa, Media Freedom
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By African Path Press freedom declined on a global scale in 2007, with particularly worrisome trends evident in the former Soviet Union, Asia, and sub-Saharan Africa. |
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New Report Finds Global Media Freedom Down in 2007
Posted by VOA News on 30 Apr 2008 | Tagged as: News, Africa, Media Freedom, Middle East
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By Kent Klein, VOA News The U.S. based organization Freedom House says media freedom declined in many parts of the world last year. |
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Embattled Mugabe Resorts to Violence, intimidation
Posted by IFEX on 09 Apr 2008 | Tagged as: News, Africa, Censorship
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By IFex Zimbabwe’s restrictive journalist accreditation law, the Access to Information and Protection of Privacy Act, has been used to block international and local reporters from covering the elections |
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South Africa Rights Agency Investigates White Media Ban
Posted by Reuters on 25 Feb 2008 | Tagged as: News, Africa, Ethics, Media Freedom, Journalism
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By Reuters A number of white reporters were asked to leave or refused entry at an event sponsored by the Forum of Black Journalists. |
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Don’t mention the war
Posted by New Statesman on 14 Feb 2008 | Tagged as: News, Africa
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By Michela Wrong, New Statesman Failing to acknowledge the elephant in the room means generations of cynical politicians have got away with blatant ethnic favouritism. |
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Al Jazeera: Kenya’s Ethnic Text Message Conflict
Posted by MediaChannel on 07 Feb 2008 | Tagged as: Africa, VIDEO, New Media, World Press
The recent ethnic violence in Kenya has been inflamed by text messaging. Kenyans send more than 5 million texts a day and since the disputed election on December 27, millions of messages have been stirring up the ethnic hatred. Yvonne Ndege has this report.
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65 journalists killed in world in 2007, group says
Posted by Reuters on 05 Feb 2008 | Tagged as: News, Africa, Journalism, Iraq War
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By Patrick Worsnip, Reuters At least 65 journalists were killed around the world because of their work last year, the highest figure for 13 years. |
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