by Sydney Smith on Mar 14, 2012
Nepali Journalist: Media Needs to be ‘Responsible to Society’
Nepali journalist Kishore Nepal addressed the change in Nepal's media during his 30-year-plus career, Nepal Monitor reported. According to the...
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by Sydney Smith on Mar 13, 2012
Cyprus Media Criticized over Reporting on Foreigners
Cyprus's media ethics committee criticized the Cyprus press for "the way the media deals with foreigners’ deaths, raising issues of...
by Sydney Smith on Mar 13, 2012
Rebekah Brooks Arrested Again in Phone Hacking Investigation
Six people, including former News International CEO Rebekah Brooks and her husband Charlie Brooks, were arrested March 13 for questioning...
by Sydney Smith on Mar 12, 2012
Irish Broadcasting Authority: RTE Unfair in Airing Unverified Tweet During Debate, RTE Apologizes
The Broadcasting Authority of Ireland upheld former Irish presidential candidate Sean Gallagher's complaint over RTE's airing the contents of a...
by Sydney Smith on Mar 11, 2012
Phone Hacking Scandal: Complaint over Leveson Testimony, Reported Suicide Attempts by Sun Journos, Claims NOTW Hacked Priest
Could Leveson Testimony Conflict with Prosecutions? As we wrote earlier this month, UK police official Sue Akers told the Leveson...
by Sydney Smith on Mar 10, 2012
Filipino Media Criticized for Coverage of Tropical Storm
PJR Reports criticized some of the Filipino media's coverage of tropical storm Sendong, which hit the Philippines in December of...
by Sydney Smith on Mar 10, 2012
Pakistani Group Publishes Gender-Sensitive Code of Ethics
In January, advocacy group White Ribbon Campaign Pakistan, a group that focuses on "involving and sensitizing the media" and campaigning...
by Sydney Smith on Mar 09, 2012
Bulgarian Media Council on Nikolay Barekov Tearing up Newspaper
Bulgaria's Council for Electronic Media ruled that it was OK for TV7's host Nikolay Barekov to rip up a newspaper...
by Sydney Smith on Mar 09, 2012
Australian Govt. Inquiry into Press Calls for Govt Funded, Independent Regulator
The Australian government published an "independent report" analyzing media regulation called for a new "News Media Council" with regulatory powers...