By Eric Barendt The Leveson Report provides a compelling case for radical reform of press law and regulation. Only the most hard-hearted of journalists, for whom in Paul McMullan’s words ‘[p]rivacy is for paedos…privacy is evil’ could fail to be shocked by the...
By Angela Martinez Read more: Tunisia: Old and New Problems About the author Angela Martinez studied journalism at the University of Salamanca, Spain, and International Relations at the University of Birmingham. She has professional experience in both Spain and the...
To the UN Inter-Agency meeting on the Safety of Journalists and the Issue of Impunity in Vienna on 22-23 November 2012 This is a transcript of the video from the symposium “Media responses to matters of life and death” held in BBC new broadcasting house on 18 october...
By Hamid Mir, Executive Editor of Geo News TV, Pakistan’s most popular private TV channel When I got my first death threat almost two decades ago, I did not take it too seriously. It was an exciting time to be a journalist. Since then, I have lost several jobs, mainly...
On 29 September 2012, in a speech to the Saudi Broadcasting Forum in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, the BBC’s Head of Global News Peter Horrocks voiced his urgent concerns about the “unprecedented threat” to independent news from around the world which arose, he said, from...
In recent months a number of high profile dismissals have been made at RTVE, the body which manages public TV and radio services in Spain. This follows criticism from the Spanish Socialist Workers’ Party (PSOE) and other left-wing parties in the country over the...
By Scott Eldridge II Through this paper, Eldridge looks at a number of challenges that both WikiLeaks and its founder, Julian Assange, confront in gaining public support to defend the activities carried out by the whistleblower website. Read more: - Paper 4....
by Andrés Cañizalez Cañizalez, director of the Venezuelan chapter of the Press and Society Institute (IPYS), examines in the paper the links between media freedom and poverty, and the way mass media should work to decrease social inequalities. In...