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ctrp329 Iceland, The Journalist Refuge
It took an economic meltdown, but Iceland is now taking steps that will transform the country into a place where journalism and publishing in general will more protected than anywhere else in the world. How would it work? Who is behind this new law? Where in the process of making it happen are we?... »
Azeri Video Bloggers Update
A recent podcast on this site was dedicated to telling the story of the Azeri videobloggers/youth activists who were attacked, arrested and held on a hooliganism charge. At that time their sentence had still not been decided. In this past week the verdict was handed down, Emin 2.5 years, Adnan 2 years in prison. In... »
Spied On, Arrested, and Deported
This month marks the beginning of a series in both text as well as podcasts, focusing on journalists of all kinds who have been stopped from doing their work. Whether they’ve been spied on, detained, deported or even murdered, the point of this series will be to shed more light on reporters and critical... »
Argentine Media Law
The Argentine parliament passed a new media reform law last week that caused alot of controversy throughout the country and is also of interest for national media policy throughout the world. The stated purpose and provisions of the law are not altogether unfamiliar ones, though in this era of dying newspapers and hyper consolidation of... »
bmtv101 Journalists Held in North Korea
cross posted on the Metroblogs Global Conspiracy It has been more than a month since CurrentTV journalists Laura Ling and Euna Lee were detained by North Korean authorities on the China-North Korea border. Yet relatively little has been made public about what their status is as well as what the US government or their media... »