Full coverage: Media

30.03.2004 Ishak Slezovic, General Manager of “100+” Radio from Novi Pazar, said that his station started the broadcasts of “Roma a Dje” (The Roma Today) programme in Romani Language. According to Slezovic, “Roma a Dje” is just another installment in a long tradition of preservation of cultural differences in the station’s programmes.

29.03.2004 Intervistë me Mero Bazen, drejtor i gazetës Tema për radion Deutsche Welle
Drejtori i gazetës "Tema" Mero Baze mendon se rrugëzgjidhja e qëndrueshme afatgjatë do të ishte përfundimi i procedurave për të përcaktuar statusin e Kosovës. Në intervistën me Dojçe Velen, Baze thotë se faktori politik në Kosovë duhet të marrë në dorë vetëqeverisjen dhe pakicat duhet të largojnë paranojat e tyre dhe lidhjet e vjetra me nacionalizmin e vjetër serb.

26.03.2004 Well known Indian development journalist P Sainath takes the sting out of the Indian government's advertising blitz – India Shining. He says inequity has risen and the country is shining only for ten per cent of the people.

25.03.2004 Should newspapers have the right to publish the name, the job title and the salary of every public sector employee? Prince Edward Island's Eastern Graphic seems to think so. The Montague-based paper makes its controversial case in provincial Supreme Court this week.

25.03.2004 Novim Prijedlogom zakona o kulturnim vijećima ukinulo bi se Vijeće za medijsku kulturu, jedino od postojećih vijeća koje je zastupalo nezavisni sektor, posebno kulturu mladih i nove medije.

25.03.2004 Gaymiddleeast.com, site d'information destiné à la communauté homosexuelle du Moyen-Orient, a été rendu inaccessible, début mars 2004, par les autorités saoudiennes. Le site avait déjà été bloqué en juin 2003, mais le gouvernement avait levé cette interdiction un mois plus tard. Le site américain 365gay.com a également été censuré.

24.03.2004 "Without the Saudis, there is no 9-11," says Craig Unger, author of an explosive new book detailing ties between the Bush family and Saudi leadership. Questions raised in Unger's book have never been asked of the White House by the Washington press corps--but should be, points out the Media Channel.

24.03.2004 Es importante analizar y definir el rol de los y las periodistas y los medios de comunicación en el tratamiento de la noticia frente a los derechos humanos de las mujeres, tomando en cuenta que el actuar de los medios de comunicación está marcado por la presencia de estereotipos. Escribe Vilma Núñez.

23.03.2004 As many as 500 Aboriginal women have gone missing in Canada over the past 20 years. It's the tip of a wider reality: Aboriginal women disproportionately face violence in their lives. This tragedy should long ago have become a priority for police forces, for governments, for media. Instead, it's a pattern so systematically ignored that it remains scarcely understood. Help break the silence.

23.03.2004 Over the weekend, Canada's new Conservative Party lost its hardest asset - the fact that it was leaderless. In recent weeks, as the party began gaining support from Canadians keen to punish the scandal-ridden Liberals, pundits marvelled at how well it was doing "even without a leader or a platform." Talk about missing the point.

23.03.2004 The International Press Institute (IPI), the global network of editors, media executives and leading journalists, calls on the Haitian National Police to protect journalists after gunmen fired on the residence of Radio Vision 2000 journalist Elysée Sincère.

22.03.2004 Albanski mediji svakodnevno opširno izvješćuju o događajima na Kosovu. Uz to, redovito se objavljuju analize, intervjui, deklaracije albanskih političara i stranaka te ostalo u vezi sa kosovskim konfliktom.

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This year's Herb Block Freedom Award went to OneWorld partner TomPaine, for being "a consistent voice of reason and democratic discourse" at a time when civil liberties are increasingly under attack, and mainstream media are too "embedded" to ask the right questions.

21.03.2004 Si celebra oggi, domenica 21 marzo, la Giornata internazionale dell'Onu contro la discriminazione razziale. Per commemorare il 44° anniversario del massacro di 69 persone che il 21 marzo 1960 partecipavano a una manifestazione contro l'apartheid a Sharpeville (Sudafrica), le emittenti radiofoniche del pianeta si sono unite per un'unica radiodiffusione internazionale della durata di 24 ore.

21.03.2004 The Albanian Media is presenting the events through news reports, comments, analisyses, interviews, declarations of Albanian Government and political parties. Some of the information written in the Media in Albanian language is presented:

20.03.2004 Ilaria Alpi, giornalista di RAI 3, e Miran Hrovatin, cameraman sloveno, sono stati assassinati il 20 marzo 1994 a Mogadiscio, in Somalia. A distanza di 10 anni dalla loro morte, una commissione di inchiesta parlamentare sta tentando di accertare la verità su questo duplice assassinio.

20.03.2004 Shtypi i dites ne Shqiperi vazhdon te pasqyroje ngjarjet ne Kosove nepermjet informacioneve, komenteve, analizave, intervistave apo edhe reagimeve te partive politike, Qeverise Shqiptare si dhe organizmave nderkombetare.
Ndiqni meposhte disa nga titujt kryesore te shtypit ne gjuhen shqipe:

19.03.2004 Benjamin Zephaniah, David Bailey, Joanna Lumley and Tracey Emin are among more than fifty celebrities who have donated images to an exhibition exploring and celebrating the gift of sight. The collection has been put together by photographer Mary McCartney Donald for Sight Savers International and is showing on London’s South Bank, 18 March to 4 April.

19.03.2004 La semaine dernière, les autorités chinoises ont fermé deux sites permettant la création et l'hébergement de "blogs" - pages personnelles où les internautes publient leurs commentaires sur l'actualité. Après les sites Internet et les forums, les autorités s'attaquent maintenant aux blogs, une des dernières tribunes d'expression encore ouvertes aux internautes, selon Reporters sans frontières.

19.03.2004 Yhdysvaltojen kuumentuvassa presidenttikilvassa on kampanjointiin ryhdytty käyttämään tv-mainoksia, joiden aikana kandidaatit Bush ja Kerry esittävät toinen toistaan koskevia väitteitä. Äänestäjä tuskin pystyy analysoimaan väitteiden paikkansapitävyyttä, mutta huolestuttavaa on MediaChannelin mukaan se, että myöskään median kapasiteetti ei usein riitä totuuden esille kaivamiseen.