COMMUNICATION: Global Media Watch to Monitor Ethics in the Press

Global Media Watch will promote the creation of national committees to monitor violations of journalistic ethics in different countries, the organisation announced Tuesday at the end of the third annual World Social Forum (WSF).

MALAYSIA: Mix of Race, Press Freedom Issues Ignites Controversy

Two among the most sensitive issues in Malaysia - race issues and press freedom - have combined to ignite Monday's police raid on an independent Internet newspaper and turn it into a full-blown political controversy.

MEDIA-VENEZUELA: Televised Onslaught of Political Propaganda

Incessant propaganda in favour of and against the Venezuelan government has saturated the airwaves, as the country's television stations have unabashedly assumed the role of political actors.

TECHNOLOGY-ASIA: Conference Shows Divisions on the Digital Divide

The hundreds of people who attended a conference that ended here Wednesday agreed on the need to bridge the digital divide in Asia, but their proposals for exactly how to do that differed from that point onwards.

MEDIA-TRINIDAD: Paper Takes Centre Stage in Police Corruption Scandal

Controversy continues to swirl around a local newspaper's decision to publish allegations that two policemen masterminded the Dec. 17 kidnapping of a relative of a former Court of Appeal judge.

MEDIA-U.S.: Islamic World Dominated 2002 Television News Coverage

So far as U.S. television network news is concerned, 2002 marked the ''Year of the Islamic World,'' according to annual statistics compiled by the authoritative Tyndall Report which released them Thursday.

RIGHTS: 19 Journalists Reported Killed in 2002

Nineteen journalists were killed in connection with their work during 2002, the lowest total since at least 1985, when the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) began tracking the deaths of reporters, according to the New York-based group.

RIGHTS-LATAM: Freedom of Expression in Trouble

The fight against pressure on the media and laws limiting freedom of expression will be a test over the next year for authorities in Latin America and the Caribbean, where 261 journalists have been killed in the past 14 years.

MEDIA-MIDDLE EAST: U.S. Uses Airwaves to Tune Minds

As anti-American sentiments rise in the Middle East, Washington is stepping up its propaganda battle through new radio stations that are airing restyled programmes designed to woo the hearts and minds of the region's youth.

MEDIA-KENYA: Gov’t Stifling Election Coverage – Campaigners

In the run up to Kenya's Dec 27 elections, the government is coming under fire for its excessively tight control over the media.

MEDIA-KENYA: Gov’t Stifling Election Coverage – Campaigners

In the run up to Kenya's Dec 27 elections, the government is coming under fire for its excessively tight control over the media.

TECHNOLOGY: Intellectual Property to Help Bridge Digital Gap – WIPO

The international intellectual property system could be utilised to reduce the digital divide that continues to exist between industrialised and developing countries, says the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO).

MEDIA-ISRAEL: The Jewish Journalist among the Palestinians

Israeli journalist Amira Hass gets "culture shock" every time she travels the short distance from Ramallah on the Palestinian side to Jewish West Jerusalem.

TECHNOLOGY: Intellectual Property to Help Bridge Digital Gap – WIPO

The international intellectual property system could be utilised to reduce the digital divide that continues to exist between industrialised and developing countries, says the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO).

MEDIA-ISRAEL: The Jewish Journalist among the Palestinians

Israeli journalist Amira Hass gets "culture shock" every time she travels the short distance from Ramallah on the Palestinian side to Jewish West Jerusalem.

BANGLADESH: Journalists’ Detention Shows Sensitivity to Coverage

The release from detention of two foreign television journalists last week and the continued imprisonment of two of their local colleagues underscores Bangladesh's sensitivity to media coverage relating to claims that religious extremists are operating there.

MEDIA-EGYPT: Political Storm Meets Artistic Death

Jewish groups and U.S. officials who found a television series anti-Semitic are now finding unexpected support from Egyptian viewers tuning out because they find it too boring.

MEDIA-EGYPT: Political Storm Meets Artistic Death

Jewish groups and U.S. officials who found a television series anti-Semitic are now finding unexpected support from Egyptian viewers tuning out because they find it too boring.

BRAZIL: ‘Cyberelas’ Bring Internet to Women’s Radio Stations

Fátima Santágata, who runs a community radio station in one of the most remote parts of Brazil's Amazon jungle, travelled an entire day by boat, more than 170 kms in taxi, and several hours by plane to receive the computer and training she was awarded by the Brazilian Network of Women in Radio.

BRAZIL: ‘Cyberelas’ Bring Internet to Women’s Radio Stations

Fátima Santágata, who runs a community radio station in one of the most remote parts of Brazil's Amazon jungle, travelled an entire day by boat, more than 170 kms in taxi, and several hours by plane to receive the computer and training she was awarded by the Brazilian Network of Women in Radio.

CARIBBEAN: New Media Watchdog Set to be Unleashed

More than a decade after the collapse of the Caribbean Press Council, (CPC) plans to establish a new regional media watchdog have at least one journalist wondering whether his colleagues are pandering to recent criticisms by some political leaders.