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World Association for Christian Communication, now Toronto-based

29 Oct 2006

(ENI)--The World Association for Christian Communication (WACC) has held its first meeting at its new global headquarters in Toronto. The organization is known for its global advocacy work on behalf of groups which do not have access to comm...

Human rights award recognises Thai freedom-of-expression advocate

29 Oct 2006

A 33 year old Thai woman battling Thailand’s national government and powerful corporate sector over human rights and...

Tackling modernity's “unkept promises”

29 Oct 2006

Professor Stewart Hoover, University of Colorado at Boulder (left), with Professor R. Scott Appleby, University of Notre Dame (centr...

From Broadcast to Broadband

28 Oct 2006

On June 28, 2006, the Senate Commerce Committee approved comprehensive telecom reform legislation, including Title VI, the "Wireless Innovation Act of 2006," which would open up unused TV channels (“white spaces”) across America for un...

Web Watchdog Outlines Porn Battle

28 Oct 2006

More than 30,000 websites containing child pornography have been removed in the last 10 years, new figures show. The Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) said the key to addressing the problem was a partnership between the public, global authoriti...

Media in Conflict: Case Study Rwanda

24 Oct 2006

The 1994 Rwandan genocide is the seminal example of the use of media as a tool to instigate conflict. By now the tragic series of events is well-known. Following an April 6 plane crash over the capital, Kigali, which killed Rwandan President Juv...

Muzzling the press in Iraq.

17 Oct 2006

As if risking life and limb to get a story weren’t enough, Iraqi journalists also have to worry about being criminalized for publishing same story, if it contains anything critical of the government. A New York Times story describes how Iraqi...

AP uses the Media to get out a Message

17 Oct 2006

It’s a tough gig to be a reporter in a war zone. We are often reminded that reporters are not always seen as the neutral observers they hope to be. Instead, they are seen as potential targets for kidnapping or violence. In recent years, a numbe...

What's In a...Media Ethics Code?

17 Oct 2006

In "Media Ethics Codes and Beyond," Robert Steele and Jay Black analyze the ethics codes of 33 American Society of Newspaper Editors member newspapers in order to draw conclusions about the "most common and useful aspects" of...

Objectivity is Overrated

14 Oct 2006

It's Fox News' 10th birthday, and there are no doubt people who want to treat the network and all the personalities associated with it according to that juvenile age. But Debra Saunders argues in the San Francisco Chronicle that Fox has a place...