In this interview with journalist Frank Smyth, he explains why a new journalist security guide was necessary, the specific challenges that make journalist security unique, and how rampant impunity for violence against journalists can devastate free press.
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In this week’s Ethiopiques column, journalist Mesfin Negash dissects the political actions of journalists Muntadar al-Zaidi and Abebe Gelaw. Gelaw verbally confronted Ethiopia’s Prime Minister at the recent G8 meeting in Chicago calling him a dictator.
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In the Weekly Freedom of Speech Roundup Sampsonia Way presents some of the week’s top news on freedom of expression, journalists in danger, artists in exile, and banned literature.
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In the Weekly Freedom of Speech Roundup Sampsonia Way presents some of the week’s top news on freedom of expression, journalists in danger, artists in exile, and banned literature.
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“Why do writers risk imprisonment or death for an idea?” In this week’s Ethiopiques journalist Mesfin Negash reflects on the risks faced by journalists, activists, and human rights defenders.
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Reporter Than Win Htut continues his account of the creation of Talk2DVB, Democratic Voice of Burma’s interactive news show. This week Than shares mistakes made early in the program’s history.
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In this interview, writer and journalist Maria Elena Lavaud talks to us about the state of freedom of expression in Venezuela. The author several books, Lavaud is also the host of the TV talk show En Privado for Globovisión.
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In the Weekly Freedom of Speech Roundup Sampsonia Way presents the week’s top news on freedom of expression, journalists in danger, artists in exile, and banned literature.
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“Just before the 2010 election in Burma I proposed the idea to make a segment on our TV program where our audience could talk about their problems directly.” Video journalist Than Win Htut recounts the rocky start of TV program Talk2DVB.
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Today the world will gather to mark the annual World Press Freedom Day in Tunisia where the Arab Spring was ignited. I am sure the government of Ethiopia will also “celebrate” the WPFD by organizing some kind of communist-style public drama.
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