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Attorney General applies presumption of openness in Freedom of Information Act guidelines2009-03-23
Reporters without Borders
Reporters Without Borders today welcomed US Attorney General Eric Holderâ##s guidelines on the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) in which he breaks with the Bush Administrationâ##s stance of withholdi...
Barrett Brown case: 11 of 12 counts dismissed2014-03-18
Reporters without Borders
Reporters Without Borders greets with relief federal prosecutors' decision to drop nearly all criminal charges against Barrett Brown, a contributor to The Guardian and Vanity Fair.
A climate of fear endangers press freedom2009-02-14
Committee to Protect Journalists
Today, the greatest threats to freedom of the press are more insidious than a generation ago because they are intended to induce a climate of fear and self-censorship through systematic violence and e...
Federal government continues to receive failing grade on issue of free expression2012-05-02
Canadian Journalists for Free Expression
For the third straight year, the federal government received failing grades from Canadian Journalists for Free Expression in a report card on freedom of expression in Canada.
Freedom of information essential for peace in Turkey2015-10-17
Reporters without Borders
At a time of alarming developments centred on the Kurdish issue, Reporters Without Borders is publishing a report exploring the relationship between this issue and media freedom in Turkey.
The Harper Years: Tough Times For Reporters In Canada2015-10-17
Reporters Without Borders
As federal elections will be held in Canada on October 19, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) reviews the evolution of freedom of the press and information during Prime Minister Stephen Harper's tenure. ...
IFJ Condemns United States "Desperate and Dangerous" Backlash over WikiLeaks2010-12-07
International Federation of Journalists
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) today condemned the political backlash being mounted against the whistle-blowing website WikiLeaks and accused the United States of attacking free spe...
Iraq: News website latest target in government's legal offensive against independent media2009-05-20
Reporters without Borders
Reporters Without Borders condemns the Iraqi governmentâ##s continuing legal offensive against independent news media, which for the first time is also targeting Internet media.
New wave of attacks on freedom of information2013-11-06
Reporters without Borders
With the trial of former president Mohamed Morsi and major leaders of the Muslim Brotherhood under way, Egyptian media workers are targets of attack. Freedom of information is threatened. Measures inc...
PEN International celebrates rights of all citizens to access information and truth2012-05-02
PEN International
A statement by Marian Botsford Fraser, Chair of the Writers in Prison Committee.
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.
WikiLeaks appeals for help as attacks are stepped up2010-12-07
Wikileaks
As the whistle-blowing website WikiLeaks comes under mounting cyber-attacks and as hosting companies continue to withdraw their services, it is appealing to its supporters around the world to create m...
Zimbabwe: One step forward, three steps back for freedom of information2014-06-21
Reporters Without Borders
A decision by the Constitutional Court in favour of freedom of information should not overshadow the fact that three Zimbabwean news organizations have been raided by the police in the past few days.
Sources Select Resources
Aaron Swartz and the Assault on Open InformationMalicious Government Prosecution
Geovanis, Chris
Article
2013
CounterPunch
The great corporate-supported push to hide essential, publicly funded information behind private firewalls and government secrecy, represents a breathtaking breach of the basic tenets of democracy.
Aaron Swartz and the Fight for Free InformationHis Blood is on the Hands of the US Government
Martin, Abby
Article
2015
CounterPunch
It’s been just over two years since computer prodigy Aaron Swartz took his own life. He was the target of a merciless witch-hunt by the Department of Justice, ultimately choosing death over 35 years b...
Aaron Swartz and the Fight for Information FreedomThey Can't Stop the Movement
Lopez, Alfredo
Article
2013
CounterPunch
Aaron Swartz was a target of a deliberately vicious, sadistic government campaign in which the federal government wanted to make his pain an example to the entire progressive techie community. What's ...
Attorney General applies presumption of openness in Freedom of Information Act guidelinesSources News Release
Article
2009
Reporters without Borders
Reporters Without Borders today welcomed US Attorney General Eric Holderâ##s guidelines on the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) in which he breaks with the Bush Administrationâ##s stance of withholdi...
Banamex v. Narco News Precedent Protects WikiLeaks, TooArticle
2010
Nacronews
The story – one that defines the times we live in - has been going on for a while now: State power (and that includes private-sector “states” such as corporations and commercial media organizations) c...
Barrett Brown case: 11 of 12 counts dismissedSources News Release
Article
2014
Reporters without Borders
Reporters Without Borders greets with relief federal prosecutors' decision to drop nearly all criminal charges against Barrett Brown, a contributor to The Guardian and Vanity Fair.
Be inventive and patientDimitrova, Alexenia
Article
2012
ICIJ
Bulgarian investigative journalist and author Alexenia Dimitrova reveals how she uses Freedom of Information laws in several countries to uncover hidden secrets of the Cold War, how the imprisonment o...
Before Parliament Hill attack, RCMP got 3 warnings, reduced patrolsDocuments show Mounties reduced patrols prior to shootings, despite 3 separate warnings
Beeby, Dean
Article
2015
CBCNews.ca
Mounties received at least three warnings of potential terrorist attacks on uniformed officers before last year's shootings on Parliament Hill, yet the RCMP wound down extra patrols around the parliam...
The Boy Who Could Change the WorldArticle
2016
Electronic Frontier Foundation
Remembering the brief life of Aaron Swartz: programmer, activist, entrepreneur, community builder.
Canada Should 'Get Tough' on Political Crimes, Say WatchdogsFour needed crackdowns, starting with illegal surveillance and electoral crime.
Nutall, Jeremy J.
Article
2015
The Tyee
A new round of Conservative Party advertisements return to a familiar tough-on-crime refrain.
A climate of fear endangers press freedomArticle
2009
Committee to Protect Journalists
Today, the greatest threats to freedom of the press are more insidious than a generation ago because they are intended to induce a climate of fear and self-censorship through systematic violence and e...
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Copyright policies threaten internet use in Panama and ColombiaRossini, Carolina
Article
2012
Electronic Frontier Foundation
After years of being one of the most progressive regions in the world in terms of balanced copyright policy, Latin America is unfortunately sliding into copyright maximalism, enacting increasingly res...
Dismantling DemocracyStifling Debate and Dissent in Canada
Article
2015
Voices-Voix
An extensive dossier of the Harper government's attacks on democracy, debate, and dissent.
Fame & Fortune OnlineWebsite
Sources
Comprehensive listing of awards available to Canadian journalists.
Fanning the flames of intoleranceThe burning of books -- an ultimate form of control and condemnation
Henley, John
Article
2010
The Guardian
A historical overview of book burnings by political and religious regimes.
Freedom of informationConnexipedia Article
Article
Freedom of information essential for peace in TurkeySources News Release
Article
2015
Reporters without Borders
At a time of alarming developments centred on the Kurdish issue, Reporters Without Borders is publishing a report exploring the relationship between this issue and media freedom in Turkey.
Freedom of Information LegislationSources Select Resources Encyclopedia
Article
Rules that guarantee access to data held by the state.
Freedom of Information Takes Another Hit in the United StatesKeeping Americans Safe
Lindorff, Dave
Article
2013
CounterPunch
The United States is a land of ill-informed sheep and the home of a bunch of cowards — cowards in government who are afraid of the truth and the open debate over facts and ideas, and cowards among the...
The Harper Years: Tough Times For Reporters In CanadaSources News Release
Article
2015
Reporters Without Borders
As federal elections will be held in Canada on October 19, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) reviews the evolution of freedom of the press and information during Prime Minister Stephen Harper's tenure. ...
How to unearth public records: a global guideChavkin, Sasha
Article
2013
ICIJ
Among the most basic building blocks of powerful investigative reporting are public records – government documents that provide bulletproof evidence of anything from a change in water quality to the o...
IFJ Condemns United States "Desperate and Dangerous" Backlash over WikiLeaksSources News Release
Article
2010
International Federation of Journalists
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) today condemned the political backlash being mounted against the whistle-blowing website WikiLeaks and accused the United States of attacking free spe...
Information Terrorists?The Vile Campaign Against Julian Assange and Wikileaks
Lindorff, Dave
Article
2010
CounterPunch
WikiLeaks is under concerted attack from the US government. Also under attack by the US government is the whole idea of freedom of thought and of information. It needs to be clearly understood that th...
The internet's cyber radicals: heroes of the web changing the worldA generation of political activists have been transformed by new tools developed on the internet.
Krotoski, Aleks
Article
2010
The Guardian
Internet activists speak about censorship, the democratising impact of open source technology, and the importance of oportunities for anonimity in a post 9-11 world.
Iraq: News website latest target in government's legal offensive against independent mediaSources News Release
Article
2009
Reporters without Borders
Reporters Without Borders condemns the Iraqi governmentâ##s continuing legal offensive against independent news media, which for the first time is also targeting Internet media.
Monsanto and Its Promoters vs. Freedom of InformationNader, Ralph
Article
2015
CounterPunch
Next year, the federal Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) will celebrate its 50th anniversary as one of the finest laws our Congress has ever passed. It is a vital investigative tool for exposing gover...
New wave of attacks on freedom of informationArticle
2013
Reporters Without Borders
With the trial of former president Mohamed Morsi and major leaders of the Muslim Brotherhood under wa, Egyptian media workers are targets of attack. Freedom of information is threatened. Measures incl...
New wave of attacks on freedom of informationSources News Release
Article
2013
Reporters without Borders
With the trial of former president Mohamed Morsi and major leaders of the Muslim Brotherhood under way, Egyptian media workers are targets of attack. Freedom of information is threatened. Measures inc...
Recommendations on the right to be forgottena Quadrature du Net and Reporters Without Borders
Article
2014
On the problems for the protection of freedom of expression and the right to information posed by the right to be removed from search engine results and, more broadly, the right to be forgotten. Priva...
10 years in prison for circulating information in public interestArticle
2013
Reporters without Borders
Jeremy Hammond, a 28-year-old WikiLeaks informant and cyber-activist linked to Anonymous, has become the fourth whistleblower to receive a long jail sentence this year in the United States.
The Truth Will Always WinAssange, Julian
Article
2010
In its landmark ruling in the Pentagon Papers case, the US Supreme Court said "only a free and unrestrained press can effectively expose deception in government". The swirling storm around WikiLeaks t...
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Content Magazine - Number 67October 1976
Serial Publication (Periodical)
1976
Content Magazine - Number 103January 1980
Serial Publication (Periodical)
1980
Content Magazine - Number 108September/ October 1980
Serial Publication (Periodical)
1980
Sources Select ResourcesReviews and information about print and online resources for journalists and researchers
Website
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Reviews and information about print and online resources for journalists and researchers.
Government Ministries & Agencies
Information Commissioner of CanadaInvestigates complaints from people who believe they have been denied rights under the Access to Information Act # Canada's freedom of information legislation.
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