Washington Times Op-Ed warns about pro-Putin bias in Voice of America Russian...
Republished from BBG Watch. In a Washington Times Op-Ed, a Committee for U.S. International Broadcasting member Ted Lipien warned about a pro-Putin bias in the Voice of America Russian programs. Lipien...
View ArticleNew media scholar Nikolay Rudenskiy is author of ‘pro-Putin Bias in VOA’ study
Sources told BBG Watch that an independent Russian journalist who warned about a “pro-Putin” bias of the Voice of America Russian Service is new media scholar Dr. Nikolay Rudenskiy. Dr. Rudenskiy was...
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Blog: Ekho Moskvy board shuffled ahead of Russian election
Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) – The Russian blogosphere erupted with comments today following an announcement that the board of directors of the iconic radio station, Ekho Moskvy, will be...
View ArticleHOWL – VOA journalist’s view of management – Part One
Without the grossly exploited POVs, VOA would be little more than Kafkaesque hallways of frustrated bureaucrats with no one to boss around. – Anonymous VOA journalist A Voice of America journalist who...
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CPJ urges Kazakhstan to stop repressing media
Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) – Dear President Nazarbayev: The Committee to Protect Journalists is deeply disturbed by the ongoing crackdown by Kazakhstan’s security service, the KNB, against...
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CPJ mourns the death of journalist Anthony Shadid
Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) – New York, February 16, 2012–The Committee to Protect Journalists is deeply saddened by the death of New York Times foreign correspondent Anthony Shadid, a...
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Attacks on the Press in 2011: Working in Peril
Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) – This video companion to Attacks on the Press recounts the story of Mexican journalist Javier Valdez Cárdenas, who works in one of the world’s most dangerous...
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Attacks on the Press in 2011: Americas
Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) – Analyses and data chart press freedom conditions throughout the region. Carlos Lauría describes the rise of state media as a powerful propaganda tool. Mike...
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Attacks on the Press in 2011: State Media As Anti-Media Tool
Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) – In some Latin American countries, state-owned media are used not only for propaganda but as platforms to smear critics, including journalists. Some elected...
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Attacks on the Press in 2011: In Mexico, Silence or Death Remains the Choice
Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) – The Mexican president promised to protect a besieged press corps with a federal protection program, a special prosecutor and new legislation making anti-press...
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Attacks on the Press in 2011: Africa
Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) – Analyses and data chart press freedom conditions throughout the region. Mohamed Keita examines the false choice between development and press freedom, while...
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Attacks on the Press in 2011: Evolution in Journalist Security
Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) – The danger of covering violent street protests has become a significant risk for journalists, alongside combat and targeted killings. Sexual assault, organized...
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Attacks on the Press in 2011: The Changing Views on Sexual Assault
Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) – The much-publicized assault on Lara Logan put the danger of sexual violence for journalists into the spotlight for the first time. As a result, there is more...
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Attacks on the Press in 2011: The Global Citizen
Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) – Even as trade and new systems of communication turn us into global citizens, the information we need to ensure accountability often stops at national borders....
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Attacks on the Press in 2011: Regulating the Internet
Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) – Legislation for Internet security can quickly turn into a weapon against the free press. Cybercrime laws are intended to extend existing penal codes to the...
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Attacks on the Press in 2011: Fighting Impunity
Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) – The global rate of unpunished murders remains stubbornly high at just below 90 percent. Senior officials in the most dangerous countries are finally...
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Attacks on the Press in 2011: Profiles in Freedom
Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) – How does one negotiate the choice to stay and report potentially dangerous news, rather than take a less risky assignment, leave the profession, or flee the...
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Attacks on the Press in 2011
Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) – Trade and the Internet are turning us into global citizens, but the news we need to ensure accountability is often stopped at national borders. China is...
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Attacks on the Press in 2011: Preface
Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) – Technology has democratized news publishing, rattling regimes that see their survival dependent on control of information. Video footage of repression from...
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Russia – Wave of attempts to intimidate independent media in run-up to...
Reporters Sans Frontières (RSF) – Reporters Without Borders is extremely concerned by attempts to intimidate independent national media in recent days in Russia. “Whether the result of a change in...
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