The newly appointed Zimbabwe Media Commission has promised to issue new licences to private newspapers, following years of restrictive media regulations that sent numerous publications out of business.
According to Reuters, the Media Commission’s actions will fulfil one of the requirements of the power-sharing agreement between Zimbabwe’s main three political… Continue Reading >>
International Media, Journalism March 20th 2010 — 10:06 am
Afghanistan’s administration has backed away media rules which could have stopped the media from broadcasting footage of Taliban attacks or security operations by Afghan forces.
Washington and media freedom watchdogs in Afghanistan had expressed concern with respect to the new directives, as previously reported in TSR. The directives would have… Continue Reading >>
International Media, Journalism, Politics March 14th 2010 — 4:25 pm
The dispute between the BBC World Service and Bob Geldof over the diversion of aid money raised in the 1980s Live Aid concerts has continued to escalate, with Ethiopia’s top diplomat to Britain calling for an official apology from the broadcaster.
Ethiopia’s ambassador to Britain, Berhanu Kebede, said today that… Continue Reading >>
International Media, Journalism, Politics March 14th 2010 — 3:10 pm
The ABC’s chairman Maurice Newman has created tension between himself and some of the public broadcaster’s journalists, after claiming that the ABC was complicit in the “silencing” of sceptical voices on climate change.
In an at-times scathing speech delivered in front of around 250 of the ABC’s staff, Newman said that… Continue Reading >>
Journalism, Politics, Television March 11th 2010 — 12:18 pm
The presenter of A Current Affair, Tracy Grimshaw, has been the first television journalist to be shortlisted for the Graham Perkin Australian Journalist of the Year Award.
Grimshaw, who received the Walkley award last year for broadcast interviewing, has been nominated for a series of interviews, particularly those with footballer… Continue Reading >>
Celebrities / Personalities, Industry, Journalism March 9th 2010 — 9:14 pm
The singer and political activist Bob Geldof has lashed out at the BBC, accusing the BBC World Service of failing to substantiate a report which stated that donations raised through the 1985 Live Aid campaign were diverted to support rebel groups in war-torn Ethiopia.
The report, by the BBC’s Africa… Continue Reading >>
International Media, Journalism March 8th 2010 — 10:36 am
Afghanistan’s government has announced that it will ban the broadcast of footage showing Taliban attacks, saying that the prohibition will reduce the Islamist organisation’s ability to benefit from insecurity.
The country’s domestic intelligence agency, the National Directorate of Security (NDS), indicated to reporters that the ban on coverage of the… Continue Reading >>
International Media, Journalism, Politics March 2nd 2010 — 11:19 pm
A Danish newspaper has come under fire from across the political spectrum, after it apologised to eight Muslim organisations following the republication of controversial cartoons of the prophet Muhammad.
The daily publication Politiken reprinted the series of twelve cartoons in 2008 when police revealed that they had foiled a plot… Continue Reading >>
International Media, Journalism, Legal, Print February 27th 2010 — 12:03 am
Newspaper columnist, blogger and political commentator Andrew Bolt has announced he has signed up with the new talkback station being formed between Macquarie Radio Network and Pacific Star, owner of Melbourne radio stations 3MP and SEN.
Confirming the announcement on his blog yesterday, Bolt said the new station will broadcast… Continue Reading >>
Appointments, Celebrities / Personalities, Journalism, Radio February 17th 2010 — 10:53 pm
Iran has taken steps to limit or prevent reporting of celebrations marking the anniversary of the country’s 1979 revolution, preventing Western journalists from entering and imposing tight restrictions on the activities of reporters resident in the country.
Visa applications from international journalists have been knocked back, The Guardian reports. Those… Continue Reading >>
International Media, Journalism February 12th 2010 — 11:29 am
An Iraqi photojournalist working for Reuters has finally been released after being held by the US military without charge for 17 months.
Ibrahim Jassam Mohammed, 33, had been held in military detention ever since American and Iraqi forces broke into his home in the middle of the night, in September… Continue Reading >>
International Media, Journalism, Legal February 11th 2010 — 10:10 am
Rod Liddle, the columnist and news editor whom industry observers say could become the next editor of Britain’s The Independent newspaper, has become swamped in controversy after media reports revealed a string of racist and sexist postings under his username on an internet forum.
The Daily Mail yesterday published details of… Continue Reading >>
Celebrities / Personalities, International Media, Journalism, Print January 19th 2010 — 11:20 am
The ABC plan to launch a 24-hour national television news channel (ABC4) in coming months, but will do so without additional government funding, rather rely on savings the broadcaster has made in other areas to cover the cost of the service.
The plan has raised questions about the ability for… Continue Reading >>
Digital Television, Industry, Journalism January 17th 2010 — 9:11 am
The defence correspondent for the Sunday Mirror newspaper has been killed in Afghanistan, the UK’s Ministry of Defence said tonight.
Rupert Hamer had been embedded with the US Marine Corps along with the photographer Philip Coburn. The pair was accompanying a patrol near the international patrol base in Helmand province, when their… Continue Reading >>
International Media, Journalism, Print January 10th 2010 — 11:38 pm
Iran’s government has taken further steps to tackle influences which it regards as destabilising, announcing that contact with “subversive” foreign organisations – including the BBC and numerous other media outlets – would now be illegal for all Iranians.
The Iranian intelligence ministry blacklisted more than 60 organisations, saying that the… Continue Reading >>
International Media, Journalism, Politics January 6th 2010 — 7:02 pm