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PMA Media Freedom Blog: July 2013
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Wednesday, July 31, 2013. Surveillance Should be Necessary and Proportionate, Say Rights Monitors. Over 100 human rights and freedom of expression monitors worldwide, have signed the ‘International Principles on the Application of Human Rights to Communications Surveillance,’ which brings together principles governing the relationship between human rights – especially the right to information – and surveillance laws in the age of digital communications. Tuesday, July 30, 2013. 8220;ARTICLE 19 deeply regr...
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PMA Media Freedom Blog: March 2014
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Monday, March 31, 2014. Journalist Shot Dead Covering Egypt Clashes. A reporter was killed covering anti-government protests in Cairo. Mayada Ashraf reporting for Al-Dostour. Newspaper and Masr Al-Arabiya. Website was shot in the head by an unknown gunman during clashes that followed Egypt’s army chief Field Marshal Abdel-Fattah Al-Sisi’s announcement that he was contesting the country’s presidential election. . The Paris-based Reporters without Borders. Friday, March 28, 2014. Wednesday, March 26, 2014.
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PMA Media Freedom Blog: How Governments Misuse Advertising To Censor Media
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Wednesday, March 26, 2014. How Governments Misuse Advertising To Censor Media. The Centre for International Media Assistance (CIMA) in partnership with the World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers (WAN-IFRA) has published a study on the misuse of government advertising to censor freedom of expression and information. Titled, Buying Compliance: Governmental Advertising and Soft Censorship in Mexico. And Capturing Them Softly: Soft Censorship and State Capture in the Hungarian Media. 8220;This r...
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PMA Media Freedom Blog: What Makes Beijing Paranoid?
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Friday, March 21, 2014. What Makes Beijing Paranoid? Paul Mooney (Pic Business Insider). Veteran reporter Paul Mooney was denied a visa to enter China to work as a journalist by Beijing in November. He was getting ready to cover China as correspondent for Reuters. He was earlier correspondent for The South China Morning Post. 8220;China has been my career,” Mooney told the New York Times. 8220;I never thought it was going to end this way. I’m sad and disappointed.”. Please read the article here. Return t...
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PMA Media Freedom Blog: September 2013
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Monday, September 30, 2013. Rappers Latest Victims Of Tunisia's Crackdown On Free Expression. Rapper Klay BBJ (Photo courttesy BBC). Freedom of expression in Tunisia, the womb of the Arab Spring, is under increasing peril with rapper Klay BBJ’s six-month jail sentence for “insulting the police” with his songs, becoming the latest example. Klay’s fellow-accused, rapper Weld El 15 is in hiding and did not appear in court. Friday, September 27, 2013. Thursday, September 26, 2013. Accurate news, responsibly ...
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PMA Media Freedom Blog: White House To Authorise Phone Companies Hold Call Data
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Tuesday, March 25, 2014. White House To Authorise Phone Companies Hold Call Data. Media reported White House moves to legally transfer responsibility for the storage of call data to telephone companies from the practice today, where it is collected and held by National Security Agency. Under the proposed system, NSA can access data from the companies if required. Phone companies are authorised to hold records up to 18 months unlike now where NSA holds records it collects up to five years. 8220;Under the ...
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PMA Media Freedom Blog: Another Assault On Hong Kong's Media
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Wednesday, March 19, 2014. Another Assault On Hong Kong's Media. Banner at a rally for press freedom in Hong Kong (Pic courtesy BBC). Two senior executives of a media organisation about to launch a Chinese-language newspaper in Hong Kong were attacked in broad daylight on March 19 provoking disturbing questions about press freedom in this semi-autonomous region of China, while memories of the attack on Ming Pao. Editor Kevin Lao remained fresh in people’s mind. The China Post quoted the Foreign Correspon...
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PMA Media Freedom Blog: October 2013
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Thursday, October 31, 2013. Vietnam: Tale of Two Bloggers. Dinh Nhat Uy (Pic. courtesy RSF). The power of social media and how repressive governments like Vietnam’s have grown to fear it was evident earlier this week. Blogger Dinh Nhat Uy was given a 15-month suspended sentence – which severely restricts movement – for criticising the government on Facebook, while. Nguyen Lan Thang who was taken into custody at Hanoi airport and released a day later, posted the sequence of events, also on Facebook. Targe...
