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Gambia: Speaker FJC Receives Ghana-Five
Wed, 03 Dec 2008 21:09:06 GMT
The speaker of the National Assembly, Honourable Fatoumatta Jahumpa-Ceesay, yesterday, received the 5 Gambian journalists - dubbed the Ghana-five - who recently returned from Accra, after a 3-week international studies on parliamentary reporting.
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Ghana: Exhibit Fairness, Objectivity in Election Coverage - Journalists Told
Wed, 03 Dec 2008 12:32:32 GMT
Mrs. Gifty Affenyi-Dadzie, Member of the Council of State has launched a brochure on election coverage, with a call on journalists not to compromise fairness and objectivity as they cover next Sunday's presidential and parliamentary polls.
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South Africa: Media Jobs On the Ropes
Wed, 03 Dec 2008 09:49:25 GMT
Dozens of journalists, photographers, subeditors and other media practitioners face an uncertain future as cash-squeezed South African media companies lay off permanent staff, cutting costs as the financial global meltdown wreaks havoc amid falling print advertising revenues, a decline in world economic activity and the US recession. Media experts this week told Bizcommunity.com that it is a sad period for journalism as experienced and hard-working staff leaves.
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Uganda: A Professional Media Must Report Correctly
Wed, 03 Dec 2008 07:10:59 GMT
The institution of the press is sometimes called the fourth estate, the other three being the legislative, judicial and executive levels of government.
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Mauritania: Newspaper Editor Jailed in Nouakchott After Being Extradited From Dubai
Wed, 03 Dec 2008 05:47:17 GMT
Reporters Without Borders condemns the imprisonment of Abdel Fettah Ould Abeidna, the editor of the privately-owned Arabic-language weekly "Al-Aqsa", on 30 November 2008 in Nouakchott on a criminal libel charge. Abeidna was immediately jailed on his arrival from Dubai, from where he was extradited.
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Kenya: Government Proposes Draconian Law for Regulating Media Content, Says Media Institute
Wed, 03 Dec 2008 05:47:15 GMT
A new law that, if passed, will allow the Kenyan government to determine the content, style, manner and schedule of broadcasting, has drawn fierce resistance from the media industry.
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Angola: Journalists for CAN 2010 Start Accreditation in January
Tue, 02 Dec 2008 22:51:19 GMT
Journalists that will cover the African Nations Football Cup (CAN), set for 2010 in Angola, will do their pre-accreditation next January, on Monday here announced an official source.
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Angola: Regional Editorial Council Analyses Media Organs Situation
Tue, 02 Dec 2008 21:32:18 GMT
The structural, organisational and functional situation of the social communication organs in the east of the country was under analysis on Monday, in the eastern Lunda-Sul Province, at a regional editorial council, ANGOP has learnt.
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Nigeria: PDP, Fayemi Congratulate INL
Tue, 02 Dec 2008 17:37:42 GMT
Sola Alabadan of Independent Newspapers won the Diamond Award for Media Excellence (DAME) in insurance reporting at the weekend, two weeks after he got the Nigerian Media Merit Award (NMMA) in the same category.
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South Africa: Time to End Petty Jealousies in Mass Media
Tue, 02 Dec 2008 14:08:23 GMT
There is no doubt right now that never before in the history of this country has the media environment been quite so competitive.
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