Full coverage: Media

29.09.2004 Corporations are making bilateral trade and investment deals - some of which go way beyond the WTOÂ’s free trade commitments - behind closed doors. Publish your views at www.bilaterals.org.

28.09.2004 Indian filmmakers are using digital technology to outwit censor boards and find space for free speech. Inexpensive and good quality equipment has ensured that a different point of view also reaches the people.

27.09.2004 Mediacentar Sarajevo u saradnji sa Media Centrom Beograd pokreće prvi online centar za novinarstvo za područje jugoistočne Evrope.

27.09.2004 Controversy rages in the labour movement as Canadian Labour Congress president Ken Georgetti tries to explain media reports that he now supports free trade. Georgetti insists CLC policy is to continue to oppose NAFTA and other similar trade deals. But a CLC position paper on the subject says free trade is not the "economic disaster" once predicted.

27.09.2004 Organized by IREX, a round table discussion was held at the Media Centre in Belgrade (September 21, 2004), which was used to present the results of the survey “Tabloidization of Daily Press in Serbia”. The survey was conducted by IREX, non-profit NGO for professionalization and development of the media.

25.09.2004 Koha Ditore journalist Fatmire Terdevci was injured in a drive-by-shooting incident in the Bajica-Domanek road, in the vicinity of the municipality of Gllogovc. She was travelling along with her brother and a Suisse Caritas official. The motive of the incident is not reported and no individual is arrested yet in relation with the case.

25.09.2004 Darko Gunjic, DJ and Talk-Show host at the Banja Luka based BIG Radio, was attacked and beaten up by three unindentified assailants on Wednesday night. The attack took place in front of Gunhic’s home in the Nova Varos quarters of Banja Luka, around 23:00 hours.

24.09.2004 Izgred se dogodio u četvrtak u Pakoštanima kada je ekipa RTL televizije snimala prilog o policijskoj akciji pretrage kuće jednog od Gotovininih prijatelja zbog sumnje da pomaže generalu koji je u bijegu.

24.09.2004 Voditelj banjolučkog Big radija Darko Gunjić Gunja pretučen je u srijedu uveče ispred svoje kuće u naselju Nova Varoš u Banjoj Luci.

Trojica nepoznatih mladića sačekali su Gunjića oko 23.30, dok se vraćao kući, a potom su ga napali i pretukli.

23.09.2004 Medjunarodna konferencija o medijskoj politici u procesu transformacije jugoistocne Evrope, na kojoj ce ucestvovati strucnjaci iz vise evropskih zemalja, bice odrzana od 24. do 26. septembra u Beogradu, u organizaciji Fondacije Fridih Ebert i Fakulteta politickih nauka.

23.09.2004 The Budva Declaration was adopted at the regional Seminar on the Freedom of Information (Budva, Montenegro, September 9-10). Representatives of the Governments of Balkan countries, together with foreign and NGOs from the region participated in the Seminar.

22.09.2004 U organizaciji IREXa, 21. septembra 2004. godine, u Medija centru odrzan je okrugli sto na kome su predstavljeni rezultati istrazivanja »Tabloidizacija dnevne stampe u Srbiji«. Istrazivanje je sproveo IREX neprofitna nevladina organizacija za profesionalizaciju i razvoj medija.

22.09.2004 Povodom obeležavanja Dana UN, 24. oktobra, agencije UN raspisale su konkurse za najbolje novinarsko ostvarenje i najbolju fotografiju o temi "Mladi u BiH - Gde ću ja biti 2015?", saopšteno je iz UNDP BiH.

22.09.2004 Reporters Without Borders has reiterated its call for the release of two French journalists who were kidnapped in Iraq with their Syrian guide a month ago. The group is concerned about a recent statement posted on the website of the Islamic Army of Iraq that the journalists will be put on trial.

21.09.2004 A businessman in Afghanistan has started the first independent radio station that broadcasts for 16 hours a day.

21.09.2004 When Kenneth Banya heard the voices of his former rebel colleagues on the radio calling for an end to Uganda's 18-year civil war, he knew it was time to surrender. "I wanted to go straight home the first time I heard them," Mr. Banya, a former commander in the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA), says in a cramped radio studio before going on the air to persuade other members of the rebel group to lay down their arms. "I knew it was safe after hearing them."

20.09.2004 An SMS-based service started by the government is changing how the people of Andhra Pradesh, India, pay their utility bills. Customers are sent message alerts on their dues by the state governmentÂ’s G2B service provider. They can message back the details of payments made.

20.09.2004 A group of NGOs, universities and community media organisations, including OneWorld South Asia, are lobbying with the Telecom Regulatory Authority of India (TRAI) for a liberal licensing environment for community radio.

20.09.2004 Seminar o temi "Statutarna regulacija, samoregulacija i primjena novinarskih kodeksa" počeo je juče u Neumu.
Direktor Visoke škole novinarstva Media plan Zinaida Babović, prilikom otvaranja seminara, kazala je da se ovaj seminar bavi, kratko rečeno, medijskim zakonodavstvom.

20.09.2004 Documentary filmmakers in India launch a campaign against curbs on the right to free speech and expression, declaring the month of September 2004 as the 'Month of Free Speech'. Divya Chandel of OneWorld South Asia talks to the flilmmakers and writes about the film festival.