by admin | Nov 6, 2010 | Campaigns, media freedom
News Corporation’s bid for the 61% of shares in BSkyB that it does not already own has been filed with the European Commission. They will now have 25 working days, until 8 December, to conduct an intitial investigation into the deal on competition grounds. It...
by admin | Sep 30, 2010 | censorship, international, Islam, media freedom
In September 2010, I attended a seminar ‘From Munk to Mohammed – Freedom of the Press, Censorship, Self-Censorship and Press Ethics’ at the Kaj Munk Research Centre at Aalbourg University, Denmark. Topics discussed at these seminars always relate to the Danish priest...
by admin | Sep 29, 2010 | international, media freedom, nuj
Do we need laws to protect journalists’ anonymous sources? This was the central question posed at a round table discussion initiated by the European Federation of Journalists (EFJ) and held at the headquarters of the NUJ on Tuesday 21 September. Attended by...
by admin | Jul 2, 2010 | media freedom, nuj, photographers
Investigative photojournalist Marc Vallée, who was one of the guest speakers at the Campaign for Press and Broadcasting Freedom’s AGM on Saturday 26 June and videographer Jason Parkinson have received an apology and damages from the Metropolitan Police after being...
by admin | Mar 13, 2010 | international, media freedom
The news that Swedish artist Lars Vilks was the target of a murder plot being planned in Ireland following the arrest of four men and three women in Waterford and Cork, would not have come as much of a surprise here in Sweden. Vilks created controversy in 2007 with...
by admin | Feb 16, 2010 | Campaigns, media freedom, photographers
It’s not just professional photographers, including NUJ members, who are angry about the use of Section 44 to prevent photographers going about their work. Many who took part in the Trafalgar Square demonstration on Saturday 23 January were, what you might, call...
