1. Afghanistan: Press freedom in free-fall in run-up to presidential election
   Sources News Release
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   Published: 2009
   Reporters Without Borders has released the report of a fact-finding visit to Afghanistan in January. Entitled “We have free speech, but we’re not safe and we don’t act responsibly".
2. African Journalists leaders summit outlines strategies to roll back impunity and defend journalists’ rights
   Sources News Release
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   Published: 2009
   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.
3. Algeria : prosecutor requests two-month sentence for newspaper editor and reporter
   Sources News Release
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   Published: 2008
   Reporters Without Borders calls on the authorities to withdraw a criminal libel prosecution against the Algiers-based daily El Watan over a 2004 article accusing a “raqui” (faith healer and exorcist) of being a charlatan.
   
4. Another reporter threatened with contempt for refusing to reveal sources
   Sources News Release
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   Published: 2009
   Detroit Free Press reporter David Ashenfelter not to hold the journalist in contempt of court for refusing to identify confidential sources.
5. Arresting Journalists violates the law, must be stopped
   Sources News Release
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   Published: 2009
   The Palestine Institute for Communication and Development (PICD) issued a press released condemning the targeting and arresting of Palestinian journalists in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank.
6. Asesinato de dos periodistas en Guatemala y Honduras. La FEPALC y la FIP expresan su total consternación
   Sources News Release
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   Published: 2009
   La Federación Internacional de Periodistas (FIP) y la Federación de Periodistas de América Latina y el Caribe (FEPALC) expresan su consternación absoluta ante el asesinato, en menos de 48 horas de dos periodistas centroamericanos.
7. Authorities arrest two TV presenters in Kabul
   Sources News Release
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   Published: 2009
   Reporters Without Borders is disturbed by yesterday’s arrests in Kabul of two commercial TV presenters, Fahim Kohdamani of Emroz and Ajmal Alamzai of Ariana TV.
8. Azerbaijan: Government ban on foreign radio stations called “strategic error”
   Sources News Release
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   Published: 2008
   Reporters Without Borders is very disappointed by Azerbaijan's National Television and Radio Council’s decision today to ban foreign radio stations from broadcasting on local FM and medium wave frequencies from 1 January.
9. Burmese authorities detain freelance journalist
   Sources News Release
   Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
   Published: 2009
   The Committee to Protect Journalists strongly condemns and calls for the immediate release of freelance journalist and blogger Pai Soe Oo, who was detained by government authorities on Wednesday for questioning.
10. Cartoon magazine seized and banned as soon as first issue appears
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2009
    The government’s decision to prosecute the company that published the new cartoon magazine Gedung Kartun for not having a permit is a setback for press freedom in Malaysia. “We urge the interior ministry to reverse its ban on Gedung Kartun,” Re
11. Celebrating the World's Freedom of the Press Year
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2010
    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.
12. China Imposes Yet More Restrictions on Journalists
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2009
    The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) condemns instructions to media issued by Chinaâs Prison Bureau and Central Propaganda Department that they must only report information distributed through official channels.
13. A climate of fear endangers press freedom
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2009
    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 emblematic arrest aimed at those who would practice real, independent journalism.
14. Concerns grows after more abductions of journalists
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2008
    Reporters Without Borders is very disturbed by the abduction of freelance photojournalist Shadreck Manyere and attempted abduction of Obrian Rwafa, a reporter with the state-owned Zimbabwe Broadcasting Corporation (ZBC).
    
15. CPJ award goes to jailed Sri Lankan journalist
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2009
    The Committee to Protect Journalists announced today that it will honor imprisoned Sri Lankan journalist J.S. Tissainayagam with a 2009 International Press Freedom Award.
16. CPJ calls for Iranian president's intervention in Saberi case
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2009
    With an American journalist now in an Iranian jail for more than five weeks, the Committee to Protect Journalists called for the charges against her to be made public and for the Iranian government to ensure that she will receive due process.
17. Croatia: Judicial harassment of war crimes reporter continues
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2009
    Zeljko Peratovic is accused of “disseminating information likely to upset the population” under article 322/1 KZA of the criminal code.
18. Death threats sent to paper of slain editor in Sri Lanka
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2009
    The Committee to Protect Journalists is greatly concerned by ongoing threats to Sri Lanka’s journalists and media organizations.
19. Defiant Journalists Back Ethical Campaign for Palestinian Media
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2009
    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 in the face of political difficulties.
20. Dissident journalist facing jail term on 'disrespect' charge
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2009
    Reporters Without Borders calls for the immediate release of independent journalist Alberto Santiago Du Bouchet, who was arrested after a verbal exchange with a policeman in Artemisa (in Havana province) on 18 April.
21. Editor of Amazonian weekly gets one-year sentence for defamation
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2010
    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 the regional weekly Nor Oriente.
22. Editor of Tamil weekly held for past 11 days on criminal defamation charge
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2009
    Reporters Without Borders condemns journalist A.S. Mani’s detention in the southeastern state of Tamil Nadu on a criminal defamation charge.
23. EFJ Hails "Momentous Success" in Italian Demonstration for "Right to Know. Duty to Inform"
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2009
    The European Federation of Journalists, along with other organisations organised one of the biggest recent demonstrations in Rome this weekend under the theme “Right to Know. Duty to Inform”, in cooperation with other unions and civil society.
24. EFJ Protests Over ‘Intimidating Signal' to Media From Slovak Prime Minister
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2009
    The European Federation of Journalists (EFJ), today condemned a warning issued by Robert Fico, the Prime Minister of Slovakia, over media coverage of what he says are trouble-making extremist groups.
25. Egypt: Concerns with Draft Broadcast Law
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2009
    ARTICLE 19 and the Arabic Network for Human Rights Information have serious concerns with the draft Broadcast Law released by the Egyptian authorities. A detailed analysis of the draft Law conducted by ARTICLE 19 highlights these concerns.
26. Europe no longer so exemplary, Russian tragedy deepens
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2009
    For the first time since 2002, the press freedom index’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.
27. FAJ says African journalists face series of threats ranging from safety and security, repressive laws, oppressive regimes
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2009
    Journalists and media workers in Africa face series of threats ranging from safety and security, repressive laws, oppressive regimes, monopolies, bad labour practices and unfair competition.
28. Fiji: Foreign Journalists Deported, Media Censored in State of Emergency
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2009
    The Pacific Islands News Association (PINA) and the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) are demanding that Fiji's military government stop deporting journalists and censoring the media after the government declared a 30-day state of emergency last
29. Free Harry Nicolaides: Cyber-demonstration to call for the release of jailed Australian writer Harry Nicolaides
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2009
    Since the new government took office in Thailand in December, many punitive measures have been ordered in the king’s name in order to silence criticism. Anyone commenting on the royal family is liable to be threatened with a lese majeste prosecuti
30. Global Press Freedom Declines in Every Region for First Time Israel, Italy and Hong Kong Lose Free Status
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2009
    Journalists faced an increasingly grim working environment in 2008, with global press freedom declining for a seventh straight year and deterioration occurring for the first time in every region, according to Freedom House's annual media study.
31. Government closes TV station owned by political rival
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2008
    Reporters Without Borders condemns the Madagascar government’s closure of Viva TV since 13 December, after it broadcast a message by former President Didier Ratsiraka.
32. Honduras: Press freedom violations continue post-coup
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2009
    Press freedom continues to suffer in the aftermath of the coup in Honduras.
33. IFJ Accuses Iran over Massive Attack on Media and Journalists
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2009
    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 the desperation of the regime to curb democracy.
34. IFJ and FEPALC Condemn Attacks against Media and Journalists in Honduras
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2009
    The IFJ and FEPALC have today strongly condemned attacks on journalists and the closure of media in Honduras.
35. IFJ and INSI Join Global Call for Release of Journalists in Gambia
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2009
    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 protest at the press freedom crisis in the country.
36. IFJ Blasts Authorities over Failure to Stop Killings of Journalists after Veteran Murder in Mexico
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2009
    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 Barrón Laguna, who worked for La Opinión.
37. IFJ Condemns "Flagrant Violation of Press Freedom" After Sentence of Spanish Journalists
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2009
    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 suspended jail terms of a year and nine months.
38. IFJ Condemns "Injustice" as Journalists are Jailed in Morocco
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2009
    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."
39. IFJ Condemns Arrest of Russian Editor after Exposure of Police Corruption Sparks Raid
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2010
    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 weekly in central Russia.
40. IFJ Condemns Assault on Union Activist in Tunisia
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2009
    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 independent journalism.
41. IFJ Condemns Campaign against Independent Media in Morocco
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2009
    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 journalists.
42. IFJ Condemns Deportation Move against US Journalist in Israel
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2010
    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 Malsin, who has been denied re-entry to the country.
43. IFJ Condemns Murderous Attacks on Journalists in Pakistan
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2009
    The International Federation of Journalists is shocked and horrified at the murder of Musa Khankhel, a reporter for The News International daily and Geo News channel, in the Matta sub-division of the Swat valley in Pakistan’s North-West Frontier.
44. IFJ Condemns New Attack on Journalists' Sources in UK
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2009
    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 Ireland (NUJ), in condemning the secrecy.
45. IFJ Condemns Outrageous Attacks on Media in Yemen
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2009
    The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has condemned attacks by Yemeni authorities on independent media which have been seized after the government accused them of publishing material allegedly "harmful to the national unity".
    
46. IFJ Condemns Palestinian Authority Over Ban on Al-Jazeera
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2009
    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.
47. IFJ Condemns Shocking Attack on Tamil Newspapers in Sri Lanka
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2009
    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 for Jaffna’s three main newspapers were attacked.
48. IFJ Condemns Strip Humiliation of Women Journalists in Sierra Leone
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2009
    The International Federation of Journalists strongly condemns the humiliating and degrading treatment suffered by four women journalists who were stripped naked in public in Sierra Leone while covering events against female circumcision.
49. IFJ Condemns Threats and Intimidation against Journalists in Somalia
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2009
    The International Federation of Journalists has condemned today the threats and intimidations against journalists in Somalia after the head of an Islamic militia group in Somalia warned journalists against reports which are critical of the movement
50. IFJ Demands End to Intimidation as Iran Shuts Journalists' Association
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2009
    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 whose offices were raided and sealed by armed men.
51. IFJ Demands Overhaul of Repressive Media Laws in the Middle East
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2009
    Launching its ‘Breaking the Chains' annual report into press freedom violations in the Arab World and Iran, the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) today called for a radical overhaul of media laws in the Middle East.
52. IFJ Endorses Joint Russian-Georgian Demand to End Media Restrictions
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2009
    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 of the Georgian/ Russian conflict.
53. IFJ Hits Out over Arrest and Detention of Journalists in Palestine
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2009
    The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has today condemned the "unjustified" detention of journalists by the Palestinian Authority's Preventive Security Services.
54. IFJ Marks ‘End of Deadly Decade' With Report on Journalists and Media Staff Killed in 2009
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2010
    The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) today issued its report on journalists and media workers who died in the exercise of journalism in 2009. The report provides detailed information of media killings.
55. IFJ Releases Press Freedom Report for South Asia
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2010
    The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) in association with the South Asia Media Solidarity Network (SAMSN) will officially release the eighth annual report on press freedom in South Asia at a regional event on May 3.
56. Impunity and "Callous Indifference" Remain Threats as New Wave of Media Killings Wipes out Optimism
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2009
    The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) today issued its report on the killings of journalists in 2008 with a warning that 2009 could be the deadliest year yet for journalists.
57. In Iran, Roxana Saberi charged with espionage
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2009
    The Committee to Protect Journalists is alarmed by news reports that the Iranian government has charged Iranian-American journalist Roxana Saberi with espionage.
58. International Report Demands Radical Reform of Belarus Media
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2009
    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.
59. Iran bars foreign media from reporting on protests
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2009
    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 prevent news coverage of protests.
60. Iranian-American journalist gets eight years on spying charge
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2009
    Reporters Without Borders “firmly condemns” the eight-year prison sentence which a Tehran revolutionary court passed on Iranian-American journalist Roxana Saberi on a charge of spying for the United States.
61. Iraq: News website latest target in government’s legal offensive against independent media
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2009
    Reporters Without Borders condemns the Iraqi government’s continuing legal offensive against independent news media, which for the first time is also targeting Internet media.
62. Israel sentences two to prison terms for censorship breach
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2009
    The Committee to Protect Journalists condemns an Israeli court decision to sentence two television journalists on charges of breaching the military censorship law during the offensive in Gaza in December and January.
    
63. Israeli authorities close Palestinian media centre in East Jerusalem
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2009
    Reporters Without Borders condemns yesterday morning's decision by the Israeli internal security ministry to shut down the Palestinian media centre that had been set up in the East Jerusalem.
64. Israeli media forbidden to report case widely covered internationally
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2010
    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 information.
65. Jailed Zimbabwe journalist Honored by Black Journalists group
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2009
    The National Association of Black Journalists (NABJ) announced that Anderson Shadreck Manyere, a freelance photojournalist in Zimbabwe, will receive the organization’s 2009 Percy Qoboza Award.
66. Journalism: Truth or Dare?
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 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 criticism thrown at journalism today by all sectors of society.
67. Journalists Call Israel to Account over "Premeditated and Precise" attacks on Media in Gaza
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2009
    The targeting of media by the Israeli military during last month's offensive in the Gaza Strip was "premeditated and precise" and in violation of international law, says the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ).
68. Journalists Killed since 1992
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2009
    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, year, and type of death with a special emphasis on unsolved murders, a focal point of CPJ's Global Campaign Against Impunity.
69. Journalists Must Debate Press Freedom Proposal
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 1980
    
70. Journalists Welcome European Call to Review Anti-Terrorism Laws
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2009
    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 practice limiting free expression and press rights.
71. Judicial authorities unearth more libel cases against national daily
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2008
    Reporters Without Borders firmly condemns the judicial harassment of the French-language daily Al-Watan that has continued since its libel conviction on 23 December.
72. Karl Marx's Theory of Revolution
    Volume I: State and Bureaucracy
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1977
    A wide-ranging and thorough exposition of Marx's views on democracy.
73. Kazakhstan: RFE/RL website editor beaten unconscious in Almaty
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2009
    Ermek Boltay, a young journalist who edits the website of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty’s Kazakh-language service, was beaten unconscious outside his home in Almaty on 18 January.
74. Kenya: Faiths Join Protests Against Curbs on Media Freedom
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2008
    Violent scenes reminiscent of the dark days of President Daniel Moi’s dictatorship have returned to the Kenyan capital after parliament passed a bill which tightens the state’s grip on the broadcast media.
    
75. Kenya: President deals major blow to press freedom
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2009
    Kenyan President deals major blow to press freedom. Also known as the “ICT Bill”, the new legislation provides for heavy fines and prison sentences for press offences. It also gives the government, above all the information and interior ministrie
76. Leaders urged to give joint commitment to press freedom
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2009
    Reporters Without Borders hopes the two-day Summit of the Americas that begins tomorrow in Trinidad and Tobago will result in a firm commitment to media freedom and human rights by the participating presidents.
77. Libel, Defamation, Contempt of Court and the Right of People to be Informed.
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 1979
    
78. Libyan President Muammar Gaddafi launches legal action against three Moroccan newspapers
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2009
    The Arabic Network for Human Rights Information (ANHRI) has described today the complaints made by the Libyan Embassy in Rabat against three Moroccan newspapers as a threat to freedom of expression and the press in Morocco which must be confronted.
79. Local newspaper reporter dies two days after beating, human rights activist attacked outside Moscow home
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2009
    Sergey Protazanov, a reporter for Grajdanskoye Soglasye, a local newspaper based in the north Moscow suburb of Khimki, died at his home on 30 March, two days after being attacked and beaten.
80. Malaysia: CIJ and WAMI condemn suspension of opposition newspapers
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2009
    Malaysia: Harakah and Suara Keadilan opposition newspapers suspended for three months
81. Manufacturing Consent
    The Political Economy of the Mass Media
    Resource Type: Book
    Published: 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 of the news. They analyze how issues are framed and topics chosen, and the way in which the marketplace and the economics of publishing significantly shape the news.
82. A memorial to killed journalists, a call to action
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2009
    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 assignments; their stories offer lessons in how to improve security and hold governments accountable. Through interactive maps, timelines, and statistical breakdowns, our new database provides analysis by country, year, and type of death. It puts a special emphasis on unsolved murders, a focal point of CPJ's Global Campaign Against Impunity.
83. Mexican journalist who covered police is abducted and killed
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2009
    Authorities found the body of a journalist who covered the police beat in northern Mexico after he was abducted from his house on Monday night, according to Mexican news reports.
84. Mexico: Investigating attack on Monterrey TV studios a "test" for federal justice ministry
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2009
    Reporters Without Borders hopes for quick results from the investigation into yesterday’s armed attack in Monterrey in which gunmen threw a grenade and opened fire on the regional studios of the privately-owned national TV network Televisa.
85. Mexico: Molotov cocktails thrown at Oaxaca newspaper editor's home
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2009
    The home of Carlos Velasco Molina, the editor of the weekly El Correo de Oaxaca, in the southwestern city of Oaxaca in Mexico, is attacked.
86. Middle East & North Africa: Region performs poorly, Israel nose-dives
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2009
    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 (86th) and Lebanon (61st).
87. More than 3,500 petition Iran to free journalists, writers
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2010
    More than 3,500 concerned people from around the world are petitioning Iran’s Supreme Leader, Ayatollah Sayed Ali Khamenei, to immediately release dozens of journalists writers, and bloggers currently imprisoned in the country.
88. Moroccan journalists face charges of defaming Qaddafi
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2009
    The Committee to Protect Journalists is dismayed by the start of court proceedings today against five Moroccan journalists charged with publicly harming Libyan leader Muammar Qaddafi and hurting his dignity.
89. Murder attempt against pro-Chávez journalist in Portuguesa state
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2009
    A murder attempt against Rafael Finol, political correspondent on the privately-owned daily El Regional in Acarigua, Portuguesa state, central-western Venezuela.
90. Newspaper editor in coma after latest case of violence against journalists
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2009
    Reporters Without Borders voiced deep concern today about newspaper editor Vyacheslav Yaroshenko, who is in a coma after being attacked and beaten outside his home in the southern city of Rostov-on-Don on 29 April.
91. Newspaper reporter arrested as she returns to Israel from Gaza Strip
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2009
    Reporters Without Borders condemns Israeli newspaper reporter Amira Hass’s arrest at the Erez border crossing yesterday as she returned to Israel after spending four months in the Gaza Strip reporting for the Tel Aviv-based daily Haaretz.
92. North Korea: Two American journalists face up to 10 years in labour camps
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2009
    Reporters Without Borders urges the North Korean authorities not to go ahead with their announced intention to try two American journalists, Laura Ling and Euna Lee, on charges of entering the country illegally and carrying out “hostile" activities
93. Outrage at fatal shooting of newspaper editor in Colombo
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2009
    Reporters Without Borders is outraged by the murder of Sunday Leader editor Lasantha Wickrematunga, who was shot dead by two men on a motorcycle as he drove to work this morning in Colombo.
94. Pakistan: Press freedom activist attacked in Lahore
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2009
    Reporters Without Borders voices its supports for journalist Imtiaz Alam, the secretary general of the South Asia Free Media Association (SAMFA), a regional press freedom group, who was attacked in Lahore.
95. Photographer Ibrahim Jassam freed after US Army held him for 17 months without explanation
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2010
    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.
96. Press freedom activist badly beaten in Colombo, hospitalised
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2009
    Reporters Without Borders is outraged by an assault on Poddala Jayantha, the secretary-general of the Sri Lanka Working Journalists Association (SLWJA), the country's leading journalists organisation.
97. Press Freedom Under Fire in South Asia, 2008-09
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2009
    The seventh annual report on press freedom in South Asia documents alarming trends in working conditions for journalists.
98. Reporter shot and killed in Rawalpindi
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2009
    Pakistani authorities must not allow Thursday's shooting death of veteran Pakistani reporter Raja Assad Hameed in Rawalpindi go uninvestigated and unprosecuted, the Committee to Protect Journalists says.
99. Reporters without Borders works on all fronts
    Sources News Release
    Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
    Published: 2010
    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 impossible.
100. Reuters photographer begins second year in US military detention
     Sources News Release
     Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
     Published: 2009
     Reporters Without Borders condemns the continuing American refusal to release Reuters photographer Ibrahim Jassam, who today begins his second year of detention by the US military in Iraq.
101. Robert Menard and staff leave Doha Centre for Media Freedom
     Sources News Release
     Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
     Published: 2009
     International press freedom campaigner Robert Ménard has resigned as director-general of the Doha Centre for Media Freedom along with other members of the staff.
102. Roxana Saberi’s family and lawyers under strong pressure from Iranian authorities
     Sources News Release
     Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
     Published: 2009
     Reporters Without Borders condemns the Iranian government’s attempts to intimidate Iranian-American journalist Roxana Saberi, her family and her lawyers. Sentenced to 8 years in prison on a spying charge Saberi been on hunger strike since 21 April.
103. Ruling recognizes Detroit Free Press reporter’s right to protect his sources
     Sources News Release
     Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
     Published: 2009
     Reporters Without Borders is thrilled with U.S. District Judge Robert Cleland’s ruling that Detroit Free Press reporter David Ashenfelter does not have to reveal his confidential sources from a 2004 article about a failed terrorism prosecution.
104. The Secret Museum
     Pornography in Modern Culture
     Resource Type: Book
     Published: 1988
     
105. Sentence Against US Journalists in North Korea is Inhumane and Unjust, Says IFJ
     Sources News Release
     Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
     Published: 2009
     The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) called for the immediate release of the two United States journalists, Euna Lee and Laura Ling, who have been jailed by North Korea.
106. Seven journalists injured by Israeli soldiers in West Bank since January 2009
     Sources News Release
     Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
     Published: 2009
     Reporters Without Borders deplores the repeated use of violence against journalists covering peaceful demonstrations in the West Bank in protest against the construction of the Security Wall. The Israeli armed forces have been directly responsible.
107. 62 reporters killed in 2008, Reporters without Borders reports
     Sources News Release
     Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
     Published: 2009
     Press Freedom Round-up 2008: Better figures despite a hostile climate and more Internet repression.
     
108. Somalia: Director of HornAfrik radio murdered in Mogadishu
     Sources News Release
     Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
     Published: 2009
     The director of Somalia's HornAfrik radio, Said Tahlil, has been shot dead in the capital’s market district of Bakara. His murder comes 16 months after the radio’s former director, Ali Imam Sharmake, was killed by a booby trap car bomb.
109. Sources.com
     Portal for Journalists and Writers - The directory for reporters, writers, editors and researchers
     Resource Type: Internet WWW site
     Published: 2009
     Sources is an information portal for journalists, freelance writers, news editors, authors, researchers and journalism students – and a resource for organizations, institutions, businesses, and individuals who want to get media coverage of their expertise and their views on newsworthy topics.
     Journalists: Use Sources to find experts, media contacts, spokespersons, scientists, lobbyists, officials, speakers, university professors, researchers, newsmakers, CEOs, executive directors, media relations contacts, spokespeople, talk show guests, PR representatives, Canadian sources, story ideas, research studies, databases, universities, colleges, associations, businesses, government, research institutions, lobby groups, non-government organizations (NGOs), in Canada and internationally.
     Newsmakers: Use Sources to raise your profile and get media coverage. Sources is a powerful tool which complements and magnifies your other efforts to publicize yourself. See www.sources.com/Profile.htm, fill out the membership form, or call 416-964-7799.
110. South Korean authorities must release journalists' leader
     Sources News Release
     Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
     Published: 2009
     The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) calls on authorities in South Korea to immediately release YTN union chairman Jong-Myun Roh, who has been detained for 10 days since being arrested ahead of strike action at the broadcaster.
111. Sri Lanka Army holding three doctors who gave information to press
     Sources News Release
     Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
     Published: 2009
     Reporters Without Borders urges the Sri Lankan authorities to quickly release three Tamil doctors who have been arrested for providing the news media with information about the humanitarian situation in Vanni.
112. Sri Lanka: Call for journalists to be let into area where “a major humanitarian crisis” is unfolding with no media presence
     Sources News Release
     Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
     Published: 2009
     Reporters Without Borders reminds Sri Lanka's government of its international undertakings as the media continue to be prevented from moving about freely in the north especially in the area where tens of thousands of Tamils are surrounded by the army
113. Sri Lanka: Government urged to punish violence against independent media outlets after new attack
     Sources News Release
     Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
     Published: 2009
     A pre-dawn attack by a dozen heavily-armed men that badly damaged the studios of the Maharaja Television/Broadcasting Network (MTV/MBC) in Pannipitiya, near Colombo, after charges that the network’s reporting was not “patriotic” enough.
114. Taiwan: Public media independence threatened, despite government denials
     Sources News Release
     Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
     Published: 2008
     Reporters Without Borders urges Taiwan President Ma Ying-jeou to keep his promises to us to respect public media independence.
115. Thailand: Call for moratorium on prosecutions for criticising the King, dialogue on Internet freedom
     Sources News Release
     Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
     Published: 2009
     Reporters Without Borders joined by 31 other organisations in a call for moratorium on prosecutions for criticising the King, dialogue on Internet freedom.
116. Turkmenistan: NGOs urge president to include imprisoned journalists in amnesty
     Sources News Release
     Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
     Published: 2009
     NGOs urge Turkmen President Gurbanguly Berdymukhamedov to release imprisoned journalists as part of the amnesty that will be announced on 19 February, national flag day in Turkmenistan.
117. 23 IFEX members and other organisations raise concerns about proposed mechanisms to combat racial and religious intolerance
     Sources News Release
     Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
     Published: 2009
     23 IFEX members and other organisations raise concerns about proposed mechanisms to combat racial and religious intolerance.
118. Two foreign journalists arrested while covering Greenpeace operation
     Sources News Release
     Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
     Published: 2009
     Reporters Without Borders deplores yesterday’s arrest of two foreign journalists – Kumkum Dasgupta of India and Raimondo Bultrini of Italy – while covering a Greenpeace protest against uncontrolled deforestation on Sumatra Island.
119. UNESCO World Press Freedom Prize 2009 to be awarded posthumously to Sri Lankan journalist Lasantha Wickrematunge
     Sources News Release
     Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
     Published: 2009
     The late Sri Lankan journalist and editor of the Sunday Leader Lasantha Wickrematunge, who was assassinated on 8 January this year, has been named laureate of the 2009 UNESCO World Press Freedom Prize.
120. U.S. reporter found guilty of obstruction, faces 4 years in jail
     Sources News Release
     Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
     Published: 2009
     The CPJ is concerned about the prosecution of American reporter Diane Bukowski, who was found guilty of 2 felony counts of resisting, obstructing, opposing, and endangering two Michigan state troopers while covering a crime scene.
121. Vienna Declaration calls on governments to respect media freedom in fight against terrorism
     Sources News Release
     Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
     Published: 2009
     Effective security and respect for freedom of expression and press freedom are not incompatible but, rather, complementary.
122. World Press Freedom Day: Commission launches 2009 Lorenzo Natali Prize for committed journalists
     Sources News Release
     Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
     Published: 2009
     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 and development.
123. World Press Freedom Day: Statement from the Media Foundation for West Africa
     Sources News Release
     Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
     Published: 2009
     The theme for this year's celebration of World Press Freedom Day, Media, Dialogue and Mutual Understanding, could not have been more appropriate in any other year than this one, particularly for countries in West Africa.
124. World press freedom groups call for Saberi's release
     Sources News Release
     Resource Type: Article/Report/Letter
     Published: 2009
     Thirty-five members of the International Freedom of Expression Exchange (IFEX) join CPJ and Reporters Without Borders in a letter to the head of Iran's judiciary calling for the release of imprisoned journalist Roxana Saberi.

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