All posts tagged media

CPJ Blog: Chinese microblog regulates, suspends users–again

Pity those of us who monitor the ups and downs of China’s popular microblog platform, Sina Weibo. For every story its users spread in defiance of local censorship, there follows a clampdown .

Continue Reading...

Blog: Blind lawyer spurs news blackout in China – CPJ

Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) -

News of blind legal activist Chen Guangcheng has been censored for months. International news reports of his escape last week

Broadcasting Board of Governors Needs Sensitivity Training on Tibet

This commentary was written by Edite Lynch in response to the news that a Tibetan widow and a middle school girl set themselves on fire and died

BBG Gone Pravda

BBG Watch Commentary An old Soviet-era joke went something like this: "This is Armenian Radio; our listeners asked us: 'Why do we need two central newspapers, Pravda (Truth)

CPJ mourns the death of journalist Anthony Shadid

Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) -

New York, February 16, 2012--The Committee to Protect Journalists is deeply saddened by the death of New York Times foreign correspondent

Blog: Ekho Moskvy board shuffled ahead of Russian election

Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) -

The Russian blogosphere erupted with comments today following an announcement that the board of directors of the iconic radio station, Ekho

Kazakhstan – Make rights key to good relations, says Human Rights Watch

International Freedom of Expression eXchange: The rights organisation is concerned about the violent crackdown on protesters and online censorship that occurred following a strike in the oil-rich

Kazakhstan – Twenty-nine IFEX members call for release of independent newspaper editor

International Freedom of Expression eXchange: Twenty-nine IFEX members have signed a letter to the Prosecutor General about the detention of editor Igor Vinyavsky, whose detention is believed

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

Russia – Independent newspaper suspends publication in response to pressure

International Freedom of Expression eXchange: According to the general director of "Moi Gorod-Kostroma", the paper was subjected to various inspections while its staff was repeatedly detained by

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

'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

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

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

National Review Magazine Cover

‘Old white guys’ – National Review links to BBG Watch discrimination and mismanagement story

“Old White Guys” – The Open Season is On The “old white guys” comment attributed to a former CNN associate of the Broadcasting Board of Governors (BBG) Chairman

Creative Commons License Original FreeMediaOnline.org content is available under the terms of Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 License unless otherwise specified.