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IFJ Demands Independent Inquiry Over Russian Web Site Owner Shot Dead by Police
DATELINE: 3/9/08
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) today (2 September) condemned the killing of Magomed Yevloyev, a Russian web site owner critical of the government who was shot in the head by police, and called for an independent investigation into his death.
IFJ Calls on China to Extend Media Freedom After Olympic Games
DATELINE: 1/9/08
The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) has called on China to live up to its promises for a free media by extending media freedom after the Olympic Games period, following a series of attacks on press freedom.
Revealed: war propaganda in the British media
DATELINE: 1/9/08
On 26 August, the Guardian revealed that a Whitehall counter-terrorism unit is targeting the BBC and other media organisations as part of a new global propaganda push. The Guardian noted that: "The disclosure that a Whitehall counter-terrorism propaganda operation is promoting material to the BBC and other media will raise fresh concerns about official news management in a highly sensitive area."
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Alliance for Lobbying Transparency meeting
Amy Goodman to receive Communication for Peace Award
IFJ Denounces Agreement to Restrict Internet Radio
New attempt to reform PCC
No Place for Censorship at Olympics
Ofcom's 'smash and grab' raid on the BBC licence fee
Journalists facing harassment in China says Greenslade
Chinese Authorities' Broken Promises
Painful lessons (but 60,000 smackers won't even make NoW wince)
World Service threatened
AGM condemns threats to Media Lens
Optimistic AGM
The future of spin: Conservatives would perpetuate New Labour control freakery
Media Ownership in the Age of Convergence
Wales, Devolution and Democracy
Lords take stand against media barons
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Events & Announcements
Alliance for Lobbying Transparency meeting
DATELINE: 21/8/08
Public fringe event at the Labour Party conference 2008: Will Lobbyists Come Clean? A debate on ethics and transparency in lobbying - 7.00pm Monday 22 September 2008
Media Ownership appeal: £10,000 is the target
DATELINE: 12/2/08
The CPBF believes that media ownership is a vital issue. When media are concentrated in the hands of powerful proprietors deep damage can be inflicted on democratic societies. Look at Italy, at the heart of the European Union, but with a media system dominated by Silvio Berlusconi. He will be standing again in the April election, with the odds on him winning.
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al jazeera
Alliance for Lobbying Transparency
allmediascotland - a directory and portal for the scottish media industry
alter-eu - The Alliance for Lobbying Transparency and Ethics Regulation
arab media watch
archives of the weekly spin
bad subjects: political education for everyday life - from the University of California at Berkeley
bectu (broadcast, entertainment, cinematograph and theatre union)
Brass Check TV
British Helsinki Human Rights Group
british journalism review
campaign for freedom of information
Campaign On - campaigns get a free web site
columbia journalism review
committee to protect journalists
community media association
Corporate Europe Observatory: CEO is a European-based research and campaign group targeting the threats to democracy, equity, social justice and the environment posed by the economic and political power of corporations and their lobby groups.
corporation watch (US)
counterpunch - US political newsletter edited by alexander cockburn and jeffrey st. clair
cris - the campaign for communication rights in the information society
cultural studies mailing list (FAQ)
Disinformation - US site combining analysis, rumour, paranoia and alternative lifestyles.
ePolitix - get your own e-mail news feed
europa: 'an internet site covering Europe as a common area of freedom, security and justice' - web site of the European Commission's Directorate-General for Justice and Home Affairs
European Institute for the Media
european journalism centre
global journalism review
global village cat - access TV worldwide
globalvision news network (a mediachannel initiative): GVNews.Net is a global syndicate of more than 345 independent local and regional news organizations that have joined to provide fresh and intelligent perspectives on global events — as seen through the eyes of experienced, professional journalists who are native to the regions about which they report.
ideosphere: non-profit media consultancy (sweden)
indymedia: independent media
information clearing house
Institute for War and Peace Reporting
international federation of journalists
International Network for Cultural Diversity
International News Safety Institute
International Women's Media Foundation - US based organisation aimed at increasing women's participation in the media.
jihad unspun - 'a clear view of the war against terror'
kurdishmedia.com
Liberty's 'yourrights' online provides information and access to advice on human rights issues such as free expression and privacy as well as information on the specific rights of various individuals and groups.
media alliance (US)
media communications policy resources (from Katharine Sarikakis of Leeds university)
media reform - us-based campaigning group also known as Free Press
media watch mailing list
media workers against the war
medialens: the real news from the US
michael moore's site
Middle East Media Guide
national union of journalists (UK & Ireland)
New book: Creating Fear - News and the construction of crisis, David L. Altheide
new internationalist
new internationalist online
notwar.net - quirky international peace group with details of hundreds of campaigning peace groups
NUJ Brussels branch
NUJ Glasgow branch
NUJ New Media industrial council
Observatoire Français des Médias (French only)
Ofcom website - the uk's broadcasting and telecoms regulator
One World
One World TV
pr watch's 'spin of the day'
Pressnet: Journalists, Journalism and Mass Media in Internet.
presswise
Public Voice, a voluntary sector coalition campaigning on citizens' interests in communications.
RAM (Refugees, Asylum-seekers and the Mass media) project bulletin
red pepper - campaigning journal & web site
save welsh tv
Schnews - weekly newsletter from: Justice? Brighton's Direct Action Collective
send e-mail to altmedia (you have to subscribe first)
signs of the times
sp media watch
spinwatch - monitoring PR and spin in the public interest (independent UK-based group)
stop war web site
subscribe to 'the weekly spin'
Taking Sides weblog on IRAQ
the memory hole
truth out - a US Democrat news site
undercurrents (for the news you don't see on the news)
US Free Press
vertigo - independent UK film magazine
VLV (Voice of the Listener and Viewer - working for quality and diversity in British broadcasting)
who owns what - from columbia journalism review
wordpower: books to change our world
working for change (US)
world association for christian communication (WACC)
world association of community radio broadcasters
world commission on the social dimension of globalisation (ilo)
writers' guild of great britain