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31.08.2004 Conceptualised by the celebrated and sometimes controversial Indian dancer and actress Mallika Sarabhai and British-Pakistani writer and poet Samia Malik, Colours of the Heart, an unusual stage production, was performed recently in New Delhi. The dance-theatre production has been written on the theme of women's empowerment and highlights what is common to the struggle against gender injustice around the world.

31.08.2004 Young media producers are providing an alternative to the mainstream media coverage of events and news in this election year by covering the political conventions and producing their own documentaries.

30.08.2004
Prva jedinstvena bazu podataka o profesionalnim standardima i etici u medijima i novinarstvu na srpskom jeziku, trenutno najveća baza podataka te vrste u Evropi, postavljena je na vebsajt Centra za profesionalizaciju medija (CPM) iz Beograda.

30.08.2004 The B&H Ombudsman on the Media writes for MediaOnline about the implementation of B&H Defamation Law.

29.08.2004 Debata, proceduralna pitanja, ispoljeni interesi, suprostavljena mišljenja i druga zbivanja u širem postupku za donošenje novog zakon o radiodifuziji u Republici Makedoniji potvrđuju da nije lako doći do kvalitetnog, modernog zakonskog teksta (i rešenja, razume se) o ovoj bitnoj delatnosti i u medijskom sistemu i u društvu uopšte.

27.08.2004 A racist cartoon in the Sun newspaper showing Mark Thatcher being cooked by cannibals has provoked calls from campaigners for editor Rebekah Wade’s resignation.

26.08.2004 Joseph Pannell could face extradition to the United States for a crime he allegedly committed thirty years ago. Dru Oja Jay examines the assumptions guiding the media's coverage of the former Black Panther's case.

26.08.2004 Tužbe političara protiv novinara i medija bile su uobičajeni dekor političke i medijske scene u svim novonastalim zemljama bivše Jugoslavije tokom posljednjih desetak godina. U takvom negativnom predstavljanju nije izostajala ni Bosna i Hercegovina za svojim susjedima. Danas, međutim, ona prednjači na dva polja, od kojih bi se samo za jedno moglo reći da nije negativno. Naprotiv.

26.08.2004 Dopo l’appello dei figli di Enzo Baldoni, la redazione di Diario ha rivolto un messaggio ai rapitori che rafforza la richiesta di liberazione sottolineando l’impegno per la pace del giornalista italiano. Da Amnesty International e dal Comitato nazionale Fermiamo la Guerra viene rilanciato l’appello di liberazione e per la fine del ciclo di violenza. Da Enrico Peyretti arriva un richiamo al governo e all’Ulivo perché “cominciare a venire via non sarebbe cedere al ricatto ma rimediare, anche se in ritardo a una tragica colpa”.

26.08.2004 Award-winning actor-turned-director, Revathy Menon talks about her latest feature Phir Milenge (We’ll Meet Again) — Hindi cinema’s first commercial film tackling the fear, stigma and discrimination that is associated with HIV/AIDS. In an interview with Kavita Sharma of OneWorld South Asia, she discusses the social role of cinema and the audiences’ reaction to such features.

26.08.2004 Ministarstvo odbrane Srbije i Crne Gore utvrdilo je da su vojne frekvencije i objekti iznajmljivani pojedinim medijskim kucama na osnovu ugovora, ali i bez bilo kakve dokumentacije, izjavio je juce ministar Prvoslav Davinic i najavio da ce dokumentaciju o tome proslediti Republickoj radiodifuznoj agenciji (RDA) Srbije.

25.08.2004 Ewa Jasiewicz, correspondent for Red Pepper magazine, remains in detention in Israel after the Israeli state appealed against a court decision to release her on bail. Jasiewicz, 26, was detained at Tel Aviv airport on 11 August. The Israeli authorities claim that she is a political activist who "had been in contact with members of terrorist organizations".

25.08.2004 The banning of a private television channel in the northeast Indian state of Manipur combined with the federal government's accusation Tuesday that at least five nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) in the region have links with militants has triggered a controversy in this already volatile region.

25.08.2004 Salman Ahmad, famous Pakistani musician and co-founder of the popular rock band Junoon shares with Jayashree Maji of OneWorld South Asia his concern over the spread of the deadly AIDS virus. In 2001, Ahmad was selected as the UN spokesperson in the battle against HIV/AIDS — arguably the biggest health crisis for South Asian nations.

24.08.2004 After the Indian electronic media's overkill of the hanging of murderer and rapist Dhananjoy Chatterjee, which spurred a rash of play time hangings by children in his home state of West Bengal in eastern India, popular folk opera plans to exploit the story, prompting fears that it will further impact young minds.

24.08.2004 As Afghans prepare to vote for their first democratically elected president in October, an international non-profit media organization is training local journalists to cover the elections in five regions of the country.

20.08.2004 Recent acknowledgements of errors and omissions by mainstream media outlets on their pre-war coverage of Weapons of Mass Destruction only raise more questions about their coverage of the current situation in Iraq, says Danny Schechter. With foreign newspapers devoting more space to the plight of civilians as the raid on Najaf continues this week, it is clear that American mainstream media “are still at war with their own uncomfortable truths.”

19.08.2004

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A freelance Iraqi newsman workeding for the German television network Zweites Deutsches Fernsehen (ZDF) was killed on the way from Fallujah to Baghdad this week. According to sources in ZDF’s Baghdad office, the journalist called twice just before he was killed, the first time to report that he had just filmed a house destroyed by U.S warplanes, the second time to inform his colleagues that he was being attacked.

18.08.2004 Sudan Mirror, the first media outlet created exclusively to serve the needs of the people and communities of Southern Sudan, is bracing for the critical test of nation-building. The paper, targeted at Sudan’s literate youth, focuses on the twists of what is proving a tortuous path to peace, as well as the wide range of issues related to it, from post-war reconstruction and conflict resolution to gender issues and the fight against HIV/AIDS.

18.08.2004 Sudan Mirror, the first media outlet created exclusively to serve the needs of the people and communities of Southern Sudan, is bracing for the critical test of nation-building. The paper, targeted at Sudan’s literate youth, focuses on the twists of what is proving a tortuous path to peace, as well as the wide range of issues related to it, from post-war reconstruction and conflict resolution to gender issues and the fight against HIV/AIDS.