MEDIA-CARIBBEAN: Expulsion Casts Pall Over Freedom of Movement

Antigua and Barbuda authorities' decision to expel a Barbadian journalist on a legal technicality has cast a shadow over efforts by Caribbean governments to encourage freedom of movement among their nationals.

DEVELOPMENT: Media Concentration, Simplification of News Leads to Disinformation

Ignacio Ramonet, editor of Le Monde Diplomatique, proposed, at the second World Social Forum winding up in this southern Brazilian city, an "ecology of communications" for confronting the contamination of the media by the globalising powers, which through the force of repetition often turn the truth into lies, and lies into truth.

MEDIA-ZIMBABWE: New Bill Passed after Major Amendments

Zimbabwe's Minister of Information, Jonathan Moyo's attempt to pass a controversial media law - in its original form - failed this week, after members of his ruling ZANU-PF and the opposition Movement for Democratic Change (MDC) ganged up against it.

MEDIA-CARIBBEAN: States Assembling Bail-Out for Regional Outlet

Regional information ministers have agreed a financial package to revive the Caribbean Media Corporation (CMC), which operated two indigenous news organisations until it was forced to close pending restructuring earlier this month.

MEDIA-ZIMBABWE: Ruling Party Splits over Controversial Bill

Sharp differences in the ruling party over a controversial bill restricting media freedom this week came out into the public when one senior party member described the proposed law as "untidy".

COMMUNICATIONS-CUBA: Internet Access Growing, but with Limitations

The Cuban government's efforts to expand access to the Internet and e-mail have had a considerable impact, although there are still restrictions on access in the private sector.

UNITED ARAB EMIRATES: Dubai’s e-Govt Service Gets Glowing Reviews

This modern desert oasis is already the most trendy and cosmpolitan place in the Middle East, but trust Dubai to make yet another mark for itself.

RIGHTS-VENEZUELA: Freedom of Expression under IACHR Scrutiny

Activists and members of the media in Venezuela are applauded the planned visit by the head of the Inter- American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR), who will evaluate the status of freedom of expression in this country.

MEDIA-HAITI: Sanctions Urged Against Blockers of Murder Probes

Advocates of media freedom and public accountability have asked the European Union (EU) and United States to slap sanctions on 24 Haitian officials and political leaders accused of obstructing investigations of two journalists' assassinations.

MEDIA: Pioneering Caribbean News Agency Closes, Leaving a Void

The Caribbean's premier news agency has been forced to abruptly close and to appeal for help from the region's businesses and governments.

/REPEAT/MEDIA-HAITI: Journalism Paralysed by Threats and Attacks

Haitian journalists say they have been hobbled by a series of attacks and threats perpetrated by government supporters over the past month and a sense of uncertainty, anxiety, and fear now reigns in most newsrooms.

MEDIA: Advocate Sees Press Freedom in Decline Worldwide

Freedom of the press is in decline despite a slight drop in the number of journalists killed during the past year, a leading media advocacy group has warned.

2001-2002: The Myths of Journalism that Fell with the Twin Towers

The suicide commandos that attacked New York and Washington on Sep 11 not only destroyed two of the most outstanding symbols of the United States, but sparked a chain reaction that also brought several "myths" of journalism tumbling down.

MEDIA: ‘Gatekeepers’ Weigh Merits of Journalism, Patriotism

William Randolph Hearst, the legendary U.S. newspaper tycoon, assigned an artist to provide sketches of a Cuban insurrection against Spanish rule during the Spanish-American war in 1898.

MEDIA-HAITI: Aristide Supporters Suspected in Journalist’s Slaying

A regional journalists' association expressed concern Thursday about the safety of media workers here, even as suspicion swirled around government supporters in the slaying Monday of a radio reporter.

MEDIA-CHILE: Concentration of Ownership Hurts Freedom of Speech/CORRECTION/

Ownership of the media is excessively concentrated in Chile, which undermines the media's function as a channel of expression for the citizenry, according to a report by the Freedom of Speech Programme at the University of Chile.

MEDIA-CHILE: Excessive Concentration Hurts Freedom of Speech

Ownership of the media is excessively concentrated in Chile, which undermines the media's function as a channel of expression for the citizenry, according to a report by the Freedom of Speech Programme at the University of Chile.

MEDIA-HAITI: European Turns Up the Heat on Murder Probe

A European journalist has called for tighter economic sanctions against the government to goad it to step up its year-old investigation into the slaying of a renowned journalist and his employee.

MEDIA-AFRICA: Editors Urged to Increase Business News Coverage

The study of economics may have been labelled the "dismal science", but there was nothing dry and arcane about the deliberations of 70 beleaguered, bothered but undaunted business editors and correspondents who met this week in South Africa's business capital, Johannesburg.

MEDIA-ZIMBABWE: Newspaper Editor Freed on Bail

Geoff Nyarota, Editor-in-chief of Zimbabwe's only independent paper, the Daily News, has been freed on bail after being detained overnight on charges of giving false investment information.

MEDIA-ZIMBABWE: Newspaper Editor Arrested for Alleged Fraud

Geoff Nyarota, editor-in-chief of Zimbabwe's only independent daily, has been picked up by police for allegedly giving false information when he registered his publishing company two years ago.