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Twitter and internet freedom: distinguish democracies from dictatorships
Reports that Twitter is planning to ‘censor’ the content of certain tweets has caused alarm amongst pro-democracy bloggers and other cyberactivists. “If Twitter censors, I’ll stop tweeting,” China’s dissident artist Ai Weiwei tweeted in response to the news. But there is a world of difference between a democracy banning speech on “security” grounds and a dictatorship banning “security”-infringing speech by autocratic fiat, writes Richard Fontaine, a Senior Advisor at the Center for a New American Security.
Voice of America hushed up mistakes by former CNN employees
BBG Watch Commentary We have reported earlier that former CNN employees, who lack experience in international broadcasting, speak no foreign languages and have poor management skills, have been
Russia – Office of opposition newspaper destroyed in firebomb attack
Reporters Sans Frontières (RSF) - Reporters Without Borders strongly condemns the arson attack that ravaged the editorial offices of the weekly Vecherny Krasnokamsk in the Perm
Media freedom activist Ted Lipien warns against diminished public stake in U.S. international broadcasting
Republished from the Committee for U.S. International Broadcasting (CUSIB) website: In an article published in American Diplomacy, a quarterly electronic journal of commentary, analysis, and research on American
VOA Reporter Killed In Pakistan, BBG Watch urges BBG to do more to take care of contract and overseas-based employees
BBG Watch reporters and contributors, many of us former and current Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) employees, are shocked and saddened by the killing in Pakistan of Mukarram
CUSIB’s open letter to BBG urges greater public scrutiny of U.S. international broadcasting
The Committee for U.S. International Broadcasting (CUSIB) has sent an open letter to members of the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) warning against a threat of diminished public
Gunmen kill Pakistani journalist who reported on Taliban
Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) -
New York, January 17, 2012--Unidentified gunmen killed broadcast journalist Mukarram Khan Aatif in a mosque north of Peshawar today, according to
United States – Reporters Without Borders to close its English-language site for 24 hours in protest against SOPA and…
Reporters Sans Frontières (RSF) - In an unprecedented move, Reporters Without Borders will shut down its English-language website for 24 hours from 8 a.m. EST tomorrow,
‘Old white guys’ meet ‘cute young intern’ and First Amendment at the Broadcasting Board of Governors
A commentary by BBG Watch Cute High School Intern Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) officials have gotten so used to running their small federal agency like their own
In Russia, unknown attacker stabs exiled Tajik journalist – CPJ
Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) -
New York, January 13, 2012--The Committee to Protect Journalists condemns Thursday's attack in Moscow on Dododzhon Atovulloyev, exiled publisher and editor-in-chief
Blog: What US can’t accept in Belarus, it supports in Uzbekistan – CPJ
Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) -
Last week, President Obama signed into law a bill that expands sanctions against Belarus, whose authoritarian leader Aleksandr Lukashenko continues to
In Ethiopia, Swedish journalists handed prison terms – CPJ
New York, December 27, 2011--In a highly politicized trial, two Swedish journalists have been sentenced in an Ethiopian court to 11-year jail terms after being convicted of
Chinese writer-dissident given nine years for online posts – CPJ
Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) -
New York, December 23, 2011 --- The Committee to Protect Journalists condemns China's harsh sentencing of online journalist and activist Chen
Wukan Protests: Two Worlds, Uneasy Co-Existence – WRIC
Women's Rights in China (WRIC) report. Journalists working for Women's Rights in China (WRIC) wrchina.org report that local authorities in Shanwei, China, have ended the blockade of
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