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African Journalists leaders summit outlines strategies to roll back impunity and defend journalists' rights2009-06-30
Federation of African Journalists (FAJ)
Leaders of the Federation of African Journalists have condemned at their biannual meeting in Djibouti on June 23rd, the unsafe and precarious working conditions of journalists in Africa.
"A book is not a bomb" says fact-finding mission2011-06-16
Reporters without Borders
Reporters Without Borders urged the Turkish government today to prove it supports the media freedom it proclaimed during the recent election campaign.
Celebrating the World's Freedom of the Press Year2010-05-07
National Ethnic Press and Media Council of Canada
The National Ethnic Press and Media Council of Canada is pleased to announce that is organized the annual ethnic press exhibition from Monday May 10th to Sunday May 16, 2010.
CPJ urges Indonesia to reverse Playboy editor's conviction2010-09-10
Committee to Protect Journalists
The Committee to Protect Journalists is deeply concerned about an Indonesian Supreme Court ruling against Erwin Arnada, editor of the now-dormant Playboy Indonesia.
Death threats sent to paper of slain editor in Sri Lanka2009-10-30
Committee to Protect Journalists
The Committee to Protect Journalists is greatly concerned by ongoing threats to Sri Lanka#s journalists and media organizations.
Defiant Journalists Back Ethical Campaign for Palestinian Media2009-11-13
International Federation of Journalists
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has concluded the launch of its programme to support ethical journalism in Palestine with a series of proposals to strengthen independent media even i...
Editor of Amazonian weekly gets one-year sentence for defamation2010-01-13
Reporters without Borders
Reporters Without Borders condemns the one-year jail sentence that a court in Bagua, in the northeastern Amazonian province of Utcumbamba in Peru, passed yesterday on Alejandro Carrascal Carrasco, the...
Editor of Tamil weekly held for past 11 days on criminal defamation charge2009-11-06
Reporters Without Borders
Reporters Without Borders condemns journalist A.S. Mani#s detention in the southeastern state of Tamil Nadu on a criminal defamation charge.
EFJ Hails "Momentous Success" in Italian Demonstration for "Right to Know. Duty to Inform"2009-10-07
European Federation of Journalists
The European Federation of Journalists, along with other organisations organised one of the biggest recent demonstrations in Rome this weekend under the theme â#oRight to Know. Duty to Informâ##, in c...
Europe no longer so exemplary, Russian tragedy deepens2009-10-22
Reporters without Borders
For the first time since 2002, the press freedom indexâ##s top 20 is not quite so European. Only 15 of the 20 leading countries are from the Old Continent, compared with 18 in 2008.
Honduras: Press freedom violations continue post-coup2009-07-09
International Freedom of Expression Exchange
Press freedom continues to suffer in the aftermath of the coup in Honduras.
Ideale FM radio station closed for refusing to reveal sources2009-04-10
Reporters Without Borders
Reporters Without Borders condemns the 8 April 2009 closure of IdA#ale FM, a privately-owned radio station in Haiti for allegedly "obstructing justice" by refusing to reveal sources.
IFEX members call for protection for women journalists and activists to mark day against violence2009-11-25
IFEX
40 IFEX members are marking the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women today, 25 November, with a joint call for action.
IFJ Accuses Iran over Massive Attack on Media and Journalists2009-07-07
International Federation of Journalists
The International Federation of Journalists warned that a massive attack on independent media in Iran which has seen the jailing of journalists and a continuing crackdown on free expression reveals th...
The IFJ and Article 19 Support The Guardian in Court Battle for Journalists Rights in Iraq2010-01-28
International Federation of Journalists
ARTICLE 19, the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and the Iraqi Union of Journalists today called on the Iraqi authorities to drop charges of defamation against the British newspaper The G...
IFJ and INSI Join Global Call for Release of Journalists in Gambia2009-08-10
International Federation of Journalists
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and the International News Safety Institute (IFJ) call for the urgent release of jailed journalists in Gambia, adding their voices to growing global p...
IFJ Backs Silent March in Colombia to Denounce Threats against Journalists2011-05-03
International Federation of Journalists
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) today backed the appeal of its affiliate in Colombia, the Federación Colombiana de Periodistas (FECOLPER) for a silent march throughout the country on...
IFJ Blasts Authorities over Failure to Stop Killings of Journalists after Veteran Murder in Mexico2009-05-28
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ)
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has today blamed the Mexican authorities for failing to tackle the killings of journalists following the murder of veteran journalist, Eliseo BarrA#n ...
IFJ Condemns "Flagrant Violation of Press Freedom" After Sentence of Spanish Journalists2009-12-31
International Federation of Journalists
The International Federation of Journalists has strongly condemned a court verdict against two Spanish journalists. The two men, who were charged with "revealing secrets", have been condemned to suspe...
IFJ Condemns "Injustice" as Journalists are Jailed in Morocco2009-10-16
International Federation of Journalists
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) today condemned the jailing of two journalists and their boss by a court in Morocco accusing the authorities of "gross injustice."
IFJ Condemns Arrest of Russian Editor after Exposure of Police Corruption Sparks Raid2010-02-10
International Federation of Journalists
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) today condemned the arrest of Valery Smetanin, Editor-in-chief and Galina Yablokova and her son Alexej Yablokov, two founders of the Ivanovo-Press wee...
IFJ Condemns Assault on Union Activist in Tunisia2009-10-16
International Federation of Journalists
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) today condemned attacks and harassment of Tunisian journalists after a series of incidents which suggest deliberate targeting of activists for indepen...
IFJ Condemns Campaign against Independent Media in Morocco2009-10-07
International Federation of Journalists
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) joins today its affiliate the Syndicat national de la presse marocaine (SNPM) in condemning the Moroccan government's campaign to muzzle critical jour...
IFJ Condemns Deportation Move against US Journalist in Israel2010-01-15
International Federation of Journalists
The International Federation of Journalists today called on Israeli authorities to revoke the deportation order served on American journalist and chief English editor of Ma'an news agency, Jared Malsi...
IFJ Condemns New Attack on Journalists' Sources in UK2009-05-14
International Federation of Journalists
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and its European group, the European Federation of Journalists (EFJ) today joined their affiliate, the National Union of Journalists in the UK and Ire...
IFJ Condemns Palestinian Authority Over Ban on Al-Jazeera2009-07-17
International Federation of Journalists
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) calls on the Palestinian Authority to rescind its decision to close down the office the Qatar-based Al-Jazeera television in the West Bank.
IFJ Condemns Shocking Attack on Tamil Newspapers in Sri Lanka2009-06-26
International Federation of Journalists
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) strongly condemns an attack on three Tamil newspapers in the northern Sri Lankan city of Jaffna. According to reports from IFJ sources, news agents fo...
IFJ Demands End to Intimidation as Iran Shuts Journalists' Association2009-08-07
International Federation of Journalistshttp://gateway.sources.com/newsrelea
International Federation of Journalists calls on Iranian authorities to end the campaign of intimidation of journalists in the country following closure of the Association of Journalists in Tehran who...
IFJ Demands Freedom of Movement for Moroccan Journalists Held in Algeria2010-09-24
International Federation of Journalists
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) condemns the measures by Algerian authorities against two Moroccan journalists who have been denied, without good reason, permission to leave their ho...
IFJ Endorses Joint Russian-Georgian Demand to End Media Restrictions2009-11-13
International Federation of Journalists
The IFJ has endorsed a joint declaration by the Russian Union of Journalists (RUJ) and the Independent Association of Georgian Journalists (IAGJ) that demands an end to all restrictions to reporting o...
International Report Demands Radical Reform of Belarus Media2009-10-16
Interneational Federation of Journalists
Today, international media and press freedom organisations issued " For Free and Fair Media in Belarus", a report calling for far reaching reforms of the media in Belarus.
Iran bars foreign media from reporting on protests 2009-06-17
Committee to Protect Journalists
The Committee to Protect Journalists condemns the Iranian government's decision to bar foreign journalists from leaving their offices to report, film, or take photographs--a restriction intended to pr...
Israeli government openly threatens journalists planning to sail with Gaza flotilla2011-06-27
Reporters without Borders
Reporters Without Borders condemns the Israeli government’s attempts to intimidate journalists who plan to travel with a flotilla of ships that will set sail in the next few days in an attempt to brea...
Israeli media forbidden to report case widely covered internationally2010-04-06
Reporters without Borders
Reporters Without Borders condemns an absurd court-ordered ban on Israeli media coverage of the case of Anat Kam, an online journalist and former soldier accused of leaking classified military informa...
Journalists Welcome European Call to Review Anti-Terrorism Laws2009-06-01
International Federation of Journalists
Ministers of the human rights network of the Council of Europe have called on their governments to review anti-terrorism laws in the face of strong criticism from journalists that some laws are in pra...
Judge dismisses obscenity charges against newspaper editor 2009-11-17
Reporters without Borders
A Lusaka court yesterday acquitted The Post editor Chansa Kabwela of a charge of #distributing obscene material# for sending the vice-president photos of a woman giving birth in a hospital car park.
Lack of transparency on Israel's expulsion of US journalist2010-01-20
Reporters without Borders
Reporters Without Borders condemns suspicious circumstances surrounding Israel#s expulsion of US journalist, Jared Malsin, editor for the English service of the Palestinian press agency Ma#an.
Middle East & North Africa: Region performs poorly, Israel nose-dives2009-10-22
Reporters without Borders
For the first time Israel is not at the head of the Middle Eastern countries in the press freedom index. By falling 47 places to 93rd position, it is now behind Kuwait (60th), United Arab Emirates (86...
Middle East and North Africa: Blogging flourishes; governments block and monitor content2009-11-06
Thousands of writers, journalists, activists, lawyers and others are expressing their dissent and reporting on social issues by blogging throughout the Middle East and North Africa, says a new report ...
New Yemeni press court sentences, bans journalists2009-11-03
Committee to Protect Journalists
The Committee to Protect Journalists urges Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh to end the intensifying judicial and media campaign to silence critical journalists and eradicate press freedom.
Photographer Ibrahim Jassam freed after US Army held him for 17 months without explanation2010-02-10
Reporters without Borders
Reporters Without Borders welcomed the release today of Iraqi photographer, Ibrahim Jassam, of Reuters, who had been held by the US military since his arrest on 1st September 2008.
Reporters Without Borders unveils first-ever 'Anti-Censorship Shelter'2010-06-25
Reporters Without Borders
Reporters Without Borders today launched the world#s first #Anti-Censorship Shelter# in Paris for use by foreign journalists, bloggers and dissidents.
Reporters without Borders works on all fronts2010-05-03
Reporters without Borders
World Press Freedom Day, 3 May, is an occasion for Reporters Without Borders to reaffirm the values it defends, the right to inform and the right to access information, without which democracy is impo...
Robert Menard and staff leave Doha Centre for Media Freedom 2009-06-24
Reporters without Borders
International press freedom campaigner Robert MA#nard has resigned as director-general of the Doha Centre for Media Freedom along with other members of the staff.
Ruling recognizes Detroit Free Press reporter's right to protect his sources2009-04-23
Reporters without Borders
Reporters Without Borders is thrilled with U.S. District Judge Robert Clelandâ##s ruling that Detroit Free Press reporter David Ashenfelter does not have to reveal his confidential sources from a 2004...
Shadow of 9/11 Attacks Hangs over Journalism, Says IFJ on World Press Freedom Day2011-05-03
International Federation of Journalists
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) marks this year's World Press Freedom Day by focusing on the legacy of the terrorist attacks on 11 September in New York and Washington ten years ago.
Sources welcomes OrangeWebsite2011-03-16
OrangeWebsite
Sources welcomes a new member: OrangeWebsite. OrangeWebsite is an Icelandic web hosting service provider. Most of our clients are foreign journalists, bloggers, leakers and publishers.
Substantial setback for press freedom in Egypt2011-04-14
Committee to Protect Journalists
A new requirement by the Egyptian military that local print media obtain approval for all mentions of the armed forces before publication is the single worst setback for press freedom in Egypt since t...
Thailand: Police close a dozen community radio stations, carry out arrests2011-04-29
Reporters without Borders
Reporters Without Borders condemns the closure of a dozen community radio stations linked to the opposition “Red Shirts” in a major police operation yesterday in Bangkok and the surrounding provinces.
23 IFEX members and other organisations raise concerns about proposed mechanisms to combat racial and religious intolerance2009-10-22
International Freedom of Expression Exchange
23 IFEX members and other organisations raise concerns about proposed mechanisms to combat racial and religious intolerance.
2011 IPA Freedom to Publish Prize awarded to Vietnamese publisher Bui Chat2011-04-29
International Publishers Association
Bui Chat, founder of Giay Vun publishing in Vietnam, has been named as the recipient of this year's IPA Freedom to Publish Prize for his exemplary courage in upholding freedom to publish.
US military must explain why marines censored Haitian photographer2010-02-07
Reporters without Borders
Homère Cardichon, a photographer working for the daily Le Nouvelliste in Haiti, had his camera confiscated by US marines while covering a demonstration by disgruntled residents outside the US embassy ...
Vienna Declaration calls on governments to respect media freedom in fight against terrorism2009-12-06
Effective security and respect for freedom of expression and press freedom are not incompatible but, rather, complementary.
World Press Freedom Day: Commission launches 2009 Lorenzo Natali Prize for committed journalists2009-06-03
European Commission
On World Press Freedom Day the Commission is officially launching the Lorenzo Natali Prize for 2009. The prize is awarded to journalists who have demonstrated a commitment to human rights, democracy a...
Sources Select Resources
African Journalists leaders summit outlines strategies to roll back impunity and defend journalists' rightsSources News Release
Article
2009
Federation of African Journalists (FAJ)
Leaders of the Federation of African Journalists have condemned at their biannual meeting in Djibouti on June 23rd, the unsafe and precarious working conditions of journalists in Africa.
Celebrating the World's Freedom of the Press YearSources News Release
Article
2010
National Ethnic Press and Media Council of Canada
The National Ethnic Press and Media Council of Canada is pleased to announce that is organized the annual ethnic press exhibition from Monday May 10th to Sunday May 16, 2010.
Comments on The Latest Prussian Censorship InstructionMarx, Karl
Article
1842
The real, radical cure for the censorship would be its abolition; for the institution itself is a bad one, and institutions are more powerful than people.
Death threats sent to paper of slain editor in Sri LankaSources News Release
Article
2009
Committee to Protect Journalists
The Committee to Protect Journalists is greatly concerned by ongoing threats to Sri Lanka#s journalists and media organizations.
Defending the right to offend, shock or disturbArticle
2009
World Press Freedom Committee
Insult laws are designed to protect politicians, government leaders and officials and state institutions, arming the state with access to resources and legal doctrines that no other citizen has.
Defiant Journalists Back Ethical Campaign for Palestinian MediaSources News Release
Article
2009
International Federation of Journalists
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has concluded the launch of its programme to support ethical journalism in Palestine with a series of proposals to strengthen independent media even i...
Editor of Amazonian weekly gets one-year sentence for defamationSources News Release
Article
2010
Reporters without Borders
Reporters Without Borders condemns the one-year jail sentence that a court in Bagua, in the northeastern Amazonian province of Utcumbamba in Peru, passed yesterday on Alejandro Carrascal Carrasco, the...
EFJ Hails "Momentous Success" in Italian Demonstration for "Right to Know. Duty to Inform"Sources News Release
Article
2009
European Federation of Journalists
The European Federation of Journalists, along with other organisations organised one of the biggest recent demonstrations in Rome this weekend under the theme â#oRight to Know. Duty to Informâ##, in c...
Eyes With LegsDinh, Linh
Article
2010
CounterPunch
In the last decade, 11 journalists have been murdered by Israeli forces, including Cevdet Kiliclar, a Turkish who was shot in the head, last week, as he photographed Israeli commandos attacking peace ...
Freedom of the pressConnexipedia Article
Article
Freedom of the press is the freedom of communication and expression through vehicles including print and electronic media.
Guardian gagged from reporting parliamentArticle
2009
Today's published Commons order papers contain a question to be answered by a minister later this week. The Guardian is prevented from identifying the MP who has asked the question, what the question ...
Handcuffed and herded My big Alpine adventure with Switzerland's police
Clark, Andrew
Article
2011
The Guardian
A journalist at the World Economic Forum Summit is detained and intimidated along with protestors by Swiss police.
Honduras: Press freedom violations continue post-coupSources News Release
Article
2009
International Freedom of Expression Exchange
Press freedom continues to suffer in the aftermath of the coup in Honduras.
How the Trafigura story came to be toldArticle
2009
Gag defeated by press, web users and MPs.
Ideale FM radio station closed for refusing to reveal sourcesSources News Release
Article
2009
Reporters Without Borders
Reporters Without Borders condemns the 8 April 2009 closure of IdA#ale FM, a privately-owned radio station in Haiti for allegedly "obstructing justice" by refusing to reveal sources.
IFEX members call for protection for women journalists and activists to mark day against violenceSources News Release
Article
2009
IFEX
40 IFEX members are marking the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women today, 25 November, with a joint call for action.
IFJ Accuses Iran over Massive Attack on Media and JournalistsSources News Release
Article
2009
International Federation of Journalists
The International Federation of Journalists warned that a massive attack on independent media in Iran which has seen the jailing of journalists and a continuing crackdown on free expression reveals th...
The IFJ and Article 19 Support The Guardian in Court Battle for Journalists Rights in IraqSources News Release
Article
2010
International Federation of Journalists
ARTICLE 19, the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and the Iraqi Union of Journalists today called on the Iraqi authorities to drop charges of defamation against the British newspaper The G...
IFJ and INSI Join Global Call for Release of Journalists in GambiaSources News Release
Article
2009
International Federation of Journalists
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and the International News Safety Institute (IFJ) call for the urgent release of jailed journalists in Gambia, adding their voices to growing global p...
IFJ Blasts Authorities over Failure to Stop Killings of Journalists after Veteran Murder in MexicoSources News Release
Article
2009
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ)
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has today blamed the Mexican authorities for failing to tackle the killings of journalists following the murder of veteran journalist, Eliseo BarrA#n ...
IFJ Condemns "Flagrant Violation of Press Freedom" After Sentence of Spanish JournalistsSources News Release
Article
2009
International Federation of Journalists
The International Federation of Journalists has strongly condemned a court verdict against two Spanish journalists. The two men, who were charged with "revealing secrets", have been condemned to suspe...
IFJ Condemns "Injustice" as Journalists are Jailed in MoroccoSources News Release
Article
2009
International Federation of Journalists
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) today condemned the jailing of two journalists and their boss by a court in Morocco accusing the authorities of "gross injustice."
IFJ Condemns Arrest of Russian Editor after Exposure of Police Corruption Sparks RaidSources News Release
Article
2010
International Federation of Journalists
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) today condemned the arrest of Valery Smetanin, Editor-in-chief and Galina Yablokova and her son Alexej Yablokov, two founders of the Ivanovo-Press wee...
IFJ Condemns Assault on Union Activist in TunisiaSources News Release
Article
2009
International Federation of Journalists
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) today condemned attacks and harassment of Tunisian journalists after a series of incidents which suggest deliberate targeting of activists for indepen...
IFJ Condemns Campaign against Independent Media in MoroccoSources News Release
Article
2009
International Federation of Journalists
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) joins today its affiliate the Syndicat national de la presse marocaine (SNPM) in condemning the Moroccan government's campaign to muzzle critical jour...
IFJ Condemns Deportation Move against US Journalist in IsraelSources News Release
Article
2010
International Federation of Journalists
The International Federation of Journalists today called on Israeli authorities to revoke the deportation order served on American journalist and chief English editor of Ma'an news agency, Jared Malsi...
IFJ Condemns New Attack on Journalists' Sources in UKSources News Release
Article
2009
International Federation of Journalists
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) and its European group, the European Federation of Journalists (EFJ) today joined their affiliate, the National Union of Journalists in the UK and Ire...
IFJ Condemns Palestinian Authority Over Ban on Al-JazeeraSources News Release
Article
2009
International Federation of Journalists
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) calls on the Palestinian Authority to rescind its decision to close down the office the Qatar-based Al-Jazeera television in the West Bank.
IFJ Condemns Shocking Attack on Tamil Newspapers in Sri LankaSources News Release
Article
2009
International Federation of Journalists
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) strongly condemns an attack on three Tamil newspapers in the northern Sri Lankan city of Jaffna. According to reports from IFJ sources, news agents fo...
IFJ Demands End to Intimidation as Iran Shuts Journalists' AssociationSources News Release
Article
2009
International Federation of Journalistshttp://gateway.sources.com/newsrelea
International Federation of Journalists calls on Iranian authorities to end the campaign of intimidation of journalists in the country following closure of the Association of Journalists in Tehran who...
International Report Demands Radical Reform of Belarus MediaSources News Release
Article
2009
Interneational Federation of Journalists
Today, international media and press freedom organisations issued " For Free and Fair Media in Belarus", a report calling for far reaching reforms of the media in Belarus.
Iran bars foreign media from reporting on protests Sources News Release
Article
2009
Committee to Protect Journalists
The Committee to Protect Journalists condemns the Iranian government's decision to bar foreign journalists from leaving their offices to report, film, or take photographs--a restriction intended to pr...
Israeli journalist Anat Kam under secret house arrest since DecemberArticle
2010
Guardian
An Israeli journalist has been under secret house arrest since December on charges that she leaked highly sensitive, classified military documents which suggest the Israeli military breached a court o...
Israeli media forbidden to report case widely covered internationallySources News Release
Article
2010
Reporters without Borders
Reporters Without Borders condemns an absurd court-ordered ban on Israeli media coverage of the case of Anat Kam, an online journalist and former soldier accused of leaking classified military informa...
Israeli soldiers continue to target Palestinian photographers in West BankArticle
2010
Reporters without Borders
Palestinian press photographers have always been targeted by the Israel Defence Forces and at least three have been arrested and two others have been physically attacked by Israeli soldiers in the Wes...
Journalists Killed since 1992Article
2009
Committee to Protect Journalists
A database of more than 700 journalists who have been murdered or killed on dangerous assignments since 1992. Interactive maps, timelines, and statistical breakdowns providing analysis by country, yea...
Journalists Welcome European Call to Review Anti-Terrorism LawsSources News Release
Article
2009
International Federation of Journalists
Ministers of the human rights network of the Council of Europe have called on their governments to review anti-terrorism laws in the face of strong criticism from journalists that some laws are in pra...
The Making of Jericho RoadAgainst The Current vol. 132
Williams, Charles
Article
2008
Against The Current
An interview with Michael Honey. The paperback edition of Michael Honey’s Going Down Jericho Road: The Memphis Strike, Martin Luther King’s Last Campaign is released this January 2008.
A memorial to killed journalists, a call to actionArticle
2009
Committee to Protect Journalists
More than 500 journalists have been targeted for murder, our research shows, and nearly nine in 10 of these slayings go unpunished. Another 200 journalists have been killed in combat or on dangerous a...
Middle East & North Africa: Region performs poorly, Israel nose-divesSources News Release
Article
2009
Reporters without Borders
For the first time Israel is not at the head of the Middle Eastern countries in the press freedom index. By falling 47 places to 93rd position, it is now behind Kuwait (60th), United Arab Emirates (86...
Middle East and North Africa: Blogging flourishes; governments block and monitor contentSources News Release
Article
2009
Thousands of writers, journalists, activists, lawyers and others are expressing their dissent and reporting on social issues by blogging throughout the Middle East and North Africa, says a new report ...
New Yemeni press court sentences, bans journalistsSources News Release
Article
2009
Committee to Protect Journalists
The Committee to Protect Journalists urges Yemeni President Ali Abdullah Saleh to end the intensifying judicial and media campaign to silence critical journalists and eradicate press freedom.
On Freedom of the Press (5)Censorship
Marx, Karl
Article
1842
Rheinische Zeitung
A censorship law is an impossibility because it seeks to punish not offences but opinions, because it cannot be anything but a formula for the censor, because no state has the courage to put in genera...
On Freedom of the Press (1)Prussian Censorship
Marx, Karl
Article
1842
Rheinische Zeitung No. 125, Supplement
Apart from the catchwords and commonplaces which fill the air, we find among these opponents of press freedom a pathological emotion, a passionate partisanship, which gives them a real, not an imagina...
On Freedom of the Press (2)Opponents of a Free Press
Marx, Karl
Article
1842
Rheinische Zeitung
What an illogical paradox to regard the censorship as a basis for improving our press!
On Freedom of the Press (3)On the Assembly of the Estates
Marx, Karl
Article
1842
Rheinische Zeitung
Precisely because freedom of discussion, the speaker concludes, is desirable in our Assembly # and what freedoms would we not find desirable where we are concerned? # precisely for that reason freedom...
On Freedom of the Press (4)As a privilege of particular individuals or a privilege of the human mind?
Marx, Karl
Article
1842
Rheinische Zeitung
From the standpoint of the idea, it is self-evident that freedom of the press has a justification quite different from that of censorship because it is itself an embodiment of the idea, an embodiment ...
On Freedom of the Press (6)Freedom in General
Marx, Karl
Article
1842
Rheinische Zeitung
Some want a full censorship, others a half censorship; some want three-eighths freedom of the press, others none at all. God save me from my friends!
On the Critique of the Prussian Press LawsEngels, Friedrich
Article
1842
Rheinische Zeitung
Two ways are open to the Prussian for the publication of his thoughts. He can either have them printed in his own country, in which case he has to submit to the domestic censorship; or, should he meet...
Photographer Ibrahim Jassam freed after US Army held him for 17 months without explanationSources News Release
Article
2010
Reporters without Borders
Reporters Without Borders welcomed the release today of Iraqi photographer, Ibrahim Jassam, of Reuters, who had been held by the US military since his arrest on 1st September 2008.
Reporters Without Borders unveils first-ever 'Anti-Censorship Shelter'Sources News Release
Article
2010
Reporters Without Borders
Reporters Without Borders today launched the world#s first #Anti-Censorship Shelter# in Paris for use by foreign journalists, bloggers and dissidents.
Reporters without Borders works on all frontsSources News Release
Article
2010
Reporters without Borders
World Press Freedom Day, 3 May, is an occasion for Reporters Without Borders to reaffirm the values it defends, the right to inform and the right to access information, without which democracy is impo...
Robert Menard and staff leave Doha Centre for Media Freedom Sources News Release
Article
2009
Reporters without Borders
International press freedom campaigner Robert MA#nard has resigned as director-general of the Doha Centre for Media Freedom along with other members of the staff.
Ruling recognizes Detroit Free Press reporter's right to protect his sourcesSources News Release
Article
2009
Reporters without Borders
Reporters Without Borders is thrilled with U.S. District Judge Robert Clelandâ##s ruling that Detroit Free Press reporter David Ashenfelter does not have to reveal his confidential sources from a 2004...
Trafigura gag attempt unites house in protestArticle
2009
Efforts by the law firm Carter-Ruck to stop reporting of a Commons question about Trafigura have outraged MPs on all sides.
23 IFEX members and other organisations raise concerns about proposed mechanisms to combat racial and religious intoleranceSources News Release
Article
2009
International Freedom of Expression Exchange
23 IFEX members and other organisations raise concerns about proposed mechanisms to combat racial and religious intolerance.
US military must explain why marines censored Haitian photographerSources News Release
Article
2010
Reporters without Borders
Homère Cardichon, a photographer working for the daily Le Nouvelliste in Haiti, had his camera confiscated by US marines while covering a demonstration by disgruntled residents outside the US embassy ...
Vienna Declaration calls on governments to respect media freedom in fight against terrorismSources News Release
Article
2009
Effective security and respect for freedom of expression and press freedom are not incompatible but, rather, complementary.
Wikileaks and the Free PressExposing the Futility of US Foreign Policy
Landau, Saul
Article
2010
CounterPunch
Wikileaks published documents from sources US journalists should have cultivated instead of behaving like White House stenographers. Exceptions like Seymour Hersh and Dana Priest only dramatize the po...
World Press Freedom Day: Commission launches 2009 Lorenzo Natali Prize for committed journalistsSources News Release
Article
2009
European Commission
On World Press Freedom Day the Commission is officially launching the Lorenzo Natali Prize for 2009. The prize is awarded to journalists who have demonstrated a commitment to human rights, democracy a...
The Wrong Solution To The Wrong Problem Malik, Kenan
Article
2012
What is it to have free press?
Sources Bookshelf
Censored: The News That Didn't Make The News - And WhyThe 1995 Project Censored Yearbook
Jensen, Carl, and Project Censored. Introduction by Michael Crichton. Cartoons by Tom Tomorrow.
Book
1996
Documenting how the U.S. mass media does a shabby job, deliberately or negligently withholding information of vital importance.
Democracy's OxygenHow Corporations Control the News
Winter, James
Book
1997
Winter shows that far from providing "democracy's oxygen," the news media legitimize a fundamentally undemocratic system. Instead of keeping the public informated, news organizations manufacture publi...
Journalism: Truth or Dare?Hargreaves, Ian
Book
2003
Ian Hargreaves discusses the history, development, future and ethics of journalism and describes journalists' relationship with the public. He focuses on the increase in journalism's influence and the...
Lies The Media Tell us Winter, James
Book
2007
Outlines the extent to which the mainstream media is subject to its corporate publishers and advertisers.
Manufacturing ConsentThe Political Economy of the Mass Media
Herman, Edward S.; Chomsky, Noam
Book
1988
Contrary to the usual image of the press and cantankerous, obstinate, and ubiquitious in its search for truth, Herman and Chomsky depict how an underlying elite consensus largely structures all facets...
The Missing NewsFilters and Blind Spots in Canada's Press
Hackett, Robert A.; Gruneau, Richard; with Donald Gutstein, Timothy A. Gibson and Newswatch Canada
Book
2000
Asks a number of questions, including: How well do the news media filter reality, for what purposes, through what processes and in whose interests? How do newspapers and TV stations choose what news i...
SpinwarsPolitics and New Media
Fox, Bill
Book
1999
An examination of media manipulation in late 20th Century North American politics.
Yesterday's NewsWhy Canada's Daily Newspapers are Failing Us
Miller John
Book
1998
Illuminates the decline of print journalism, suggests reasons for this decline and proposes solutions to reverse this downward trend.
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