Thomas Rippe
Jan. 23, 2013
12:49 pm
The first time I got in trouble at China Radio International was for saying it’s OK to drive over the speed limit as long as that’s the speed of traffic.
I was hosting a show called “China Now,” which aired … Read more
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Tom Rosenstiel
Jan. 11, 2013
10:17 am
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Mark Briggs
Dec. 19, 2012
6:45 am
I was honored to represent the U.S., the Poynter Institute and KING Broadcasting Co. at the Colloquium on Future Global Communication and Journalism Education held Dec. 15-16 at Tsinghua University in Beijing. The first session featured five international speakers — … Read more
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Amy Wu
Nov. 16, 2012
8:44 am
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Steve Myers
May 7, 2012
4:02 pm
Committee to Protect Journalists
The government of Equatorial Guinea responded to its distinction
as the fifth most-censored country in the world by holding a news conference at which President Teodoro Obiang declared, "There are really no restrictions on any activity of the press, provided they are legal." That message must not have made it to the head of the state-owned broadcaster, who on the same day "barred Samuel Obiang Mbana, an independent journalist ... from participating in a televised debate to which he had been invited two days earlier to speak on how press freedom could transform the country." Mbana tells CPJ's Peter Nkanga, "I was told I am problematic, that I might say something the station is censored not to say, and which the government doesn't want aired." ||
Related: Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton
honors journalists on World Press Freedom Day (U.S. Department of State)
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Julie Moos
Oct. 10, 2011
8:14 am
Romenesko+ memo | AFP
The Huffington Post will introduce a French edition, in partnership with Le Monde, by the end of this year. The French version -- Le Huffington Post -- will be created by French journalists in partnership with the daily newspaper and its network of websites, which already attract 8 million people a month. A third partner -- the company that has a controlling interest in the owner of Le Monde -- will also hold shares in Le HuffPo.
This is not the first international version of the popular site;
Huffington Post UK launched in early July. And Arianna Huffington says it will not be the last. Huffington told AFP while in Paris today that there are sites planned for Spain, Italy or Germany.
"We are hoping to launch in Madrid. I am on my way to Madrid from here. I am also going to Milan, Istanbul," she said. "Italy is less advanced, we haven't begun conversations yet."
Discussions were under way in Brazil, she said, adding: "we are looking at Japan, we are looking at Germany.
"If it is a different langage, I think it is much better to have a French partner, or a German partner, Spanish partner. Because the site needs to be truly, authentically French or German, or Spanish," Huffington said.
Related: Who owns LeHuffingtonPost.com and LeHuffingtonPost.fr? (TechCrunch) ||
Huffington Post UK editor plays down competition with other media (The Media Briefing)
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Jeff Sonderman
Sep. 30, 2011
1:13 pm
Committee to Protect Journalists
The Committee to Protect Journalists says the killing of a Mexican journalist in Nuevo Laredo on Saturday marks the first documented case of murder "in direct retaliation for journalism posted on social media." María Elizabeth Macías Castro's body was found decapitated, a computer keyboard nearby, in front of a poster. Macías Castro, 39, had used Twitter and a chat forum on the website
Nuevo Laredo en vivo (Nuevo Laredo Live) to report on organized crime. She posted under the pseudonym "La NenaDLaredo" ("the girl from Laredo"). It seems clear from the note left at the crime scene that her identity was discovered, CPJ reports:
If the ghoulish crime scene and props weren't illustrative enough, the note left by the murderers left no doubt. 'Ok. Nuevo Laredo Live and social media, I am the Girl from Laredo and I am here because of my reports and yours... ZZZZ.' The 'ZZZZ' signature suggests a link to the vicious Zetas drug cartel.
An editor says that journalists are told not to post anything crime-related from personal social media profiles and to use institutional accounts that aren't tied to any one person.
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Steve Myers
June 1, 2011
9:40 am
Committee to Protect Journalists
For the fourth year, Iraq tops the Committee to Protect Journalists' "Impunity Index," meaning it has the most unsolved killings of journalists per capita from 2001 to 2010. "None of the 92 journalist murders recorded in Iraq in the past decade has been solved, and, after a brief decline in targeted killings, journalist murders spiked in 2010," CPJ says in a report released Tuesday. In Mexico, which is ranked eighth, "authorities appear powerless in bringing killers to justice." CPJ blames the lack of justice in these countries on "entrenched corruption and dysfunction in law enforcement." The vast majority of victims are local journalists, such as
the most recent case in Pakistan.
|| Related: What news organizations owe the fixers they rely on, leave behind in foreign countries.
The full list is after the jump.
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Steve Myers
Apr. 7, 2011
7:18 am
One of the most intriguing elements of the news about the Quran burning in Gainesville, Fla., on March 20 is how it skipped the U.S. and took hold overseas. That journey is particularly important to this story because those people … Read more
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