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2011-11-22 10:49Government transparency is crucial to a democratic society and the media plays a huge role in ensuring this mechanism; since the end of Apartheid and the succession of the African National Congress (ANC), South Africa has had an independent press where investigative journalism thrives, uncovering corruption and helping to keep the government accountable. Read more ...
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2011-11-16 15:14Weekly newspaper Río Doce is a rare success story of independent journalism in one of the world’s most dangerous regions for media professionals. Based in the city of Culiacán, capital of the north western state of Sinaloa, in Mexico, the publication received the 2011 edition of the prestigious Maria Moors Cabot Prizes, awarded by the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, in recognition for the most outstanding reporting on Latin America and the Caribbean. WAN-IFRA interviewed Mr. Ismael Bojorquez Perea, one of the founders and current director of Río Doce. Read more ...
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2011-11-15 10:37In conjunction with 30 International Freedom of Expression Exchange (IFEX) members, WAN-IFRA has instigated a joint appeal to President Isaias Afewerki of Eritrea calling for the immediate release of journalist Dawit Isaak and all imprisoned journalists held in the country. Read more ...
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2011-11-10 18:32The media environment in South Sudan is still in the early stages of development, but behind a government that is publicly encouraging free media there is disquiet over whether the administration will actually make good on its promises to the press. Read more ...
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2011-11-10 16:01Read more ...
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2011-11-07 19:00The World Association of Newspapers and Newspapers (WAN-IFRA) together with the World Editors Forum, which represent 18,000 publications, 15,000 online sites and over 3,000 companies in more than 120 countries, condemns the recent firebomb attack against the premises of French satirical weekly Charlie Hebdo following publication of an issue portraying the Prophet Muhammad. Read more ...
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2011-11-04 16:21The World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers (WAN-IFRA) has concluded a five-day mission to Ecuador, where it found “an increasing polarization and climate of hostility amongst media professionals and amongst society as a whole”. Read more ...
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2011-10-15 12:37After the fall of the Berlin Wall and the liberation of South Africa from apartheid, the world saw great strides in press freedom. Access to information was democratised, countries repealed criminal libel laws and a breadth of new independent publications now offer readers more choices than ever before. Yet over the past decade some of those gains have eroded. Read more ...
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WAN-IFRA’s Declaration of Table Mountain is an earnest appeal to all Africans, particularly those in power, to recognise that political and economic progress flourishes in a climate where the press is free and independent of governmental, political or economic control.
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The African Press Network (RAP21) is a digital network that supports a strong independent press throughout Africa by sharing, distributing and exchanging information between newspaper publishers, editors, journalists and human rights advocates.
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