Here are five takeaways from the presentation of Claudio Paolillo, Chairman, Press Freedom and Information Committee, Inter-American Press Association, Uruguay, during a session titled “National security, liberty, regulation and the role of a free press in the digital age” on the first day of WAN-IFRA’s World Newspaper Congress / World Editors Forum in Torino, Italy.
Here are five takeaways from the presentation of Gary Pruitt, President and CEO of the Associated Press, during a session titled “National security, liberty, regulation and the role of a free press in the digital age” on the first day of WAN-IFRA’s World Newspaper Congress / World Editors Forum in Torino, Italy.
“This Golden Pen is more important than food, medicine and water. It materializes the support and shows that he is not forgotten. That he is one of us. That an attack on one journalist is an attack on us all and that jailing a journalist is a crime against humanity,” Swedish journalist Martin Schibbye said, accepting the 2014 Golden Pen of Freedom, the annual press freedom prize of the World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers (WAN-IFRA), on behalf of imprisoned Ethiopian publisher, journalist and blogger Eskinder Nega.
The WAN-IFRA Press Freedom Round Table is held Sunday in Torino, Italy, where top media executives give their insight on an important question: “Is press freedom in democratic countries a trend in decline?”
UNESCO’s new youth-engagement initiative has kicked off with a call for more youth representation in mainstream media. Sydney Pead reports.
“Long-term structural declines in print circulation continue in mature markets as audiences shift their focus from print to digital” WAN-IFRA Secretary General Larry Kilman told the Zeitung Digital Conference in Berlin this week, foreshadowing the release of WAN-IFRA’s annual World Press Trends report.
Tibetan film-maker Dhondup Wangchen has been released from prison, six years after his arrest in March 2008. Wangchen was featured in WAN-IFRA’s ‘30 Days for Freedom’ campaign.
Barely one year ago we were in Bangkok for WAN-IFRA’s 65th Newspaper Congress, which included some lively discussions on the threats to press freedom and the need for journalist security around the world, writes Javier Garza Ramos.
As Ukrainians headed to the polls on 25 May in snap elections that were commended by international observers for largely upholding democratic commitments, turmoil in eastern Ukraine saw an increase in violence against journalists. A day before the elections, Italian photojournalist Andrea Rocchelli and his Russian interpreter Andrey Mironov were killed while covering the fighting in Slavyansk, while on 25 May, separatists took two journalists hostage – Viacheslav Bondarenko and Maksym Osovsky – as they covered the elections in Luhansk region. The pair was released several days later.
Annual report from the Innovation International Media Consulting Group.
“The current regime follows this pattern: immediately before elections, they start to muzzle every critical voice,” protests Endalk Chala, a co-founder and member of the Ethiopian blogging collective called “Zone 9” – a proverbial reference to Ethiopia’s situation beyond the eight zones that divide the notorious Kaliti prison, where many journalists and political prisoners are kept behind bars.
New software and apps that allow users to reach reading speeds of 1,000 words per minute on tiny devices will soon become “the main source of reading,” according to experts. Paul McClean examines the rise of this potentially revolutionary technology.