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Newsletter n° 1 |
13.04.2007 |
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| NEWS FROM THE MEDIA SCENE
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| Mauritanian Media Put to the Test |
Two years after a military coup that ended nearly 20 years of authoritarian rule, Mauritanians went to the polls and voted in what became one of the first tests of the new public media. And while some monitors have hailed public media’s success in providing neutral and balanced coverage, others are left cautious to proclaim triumph of a functioning press as the country continues to face trials and adversities in the aftermath of a complex history.
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| The Business of Newspapers
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| A Moroccan Daily for Free |
au fait is the first free daily to be launched in Morocco, which already has several free weeklies. With a circulation of 10,000 copies, this newspaper is distributed from Monday to Friday by a team of fourteen peddlers in Casablanca and three in Rabat since 1 March 2007, it will soon be available in Marrakech.
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| PRESS FREEDOM
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| Death of Cameraman adds to Growing Escalation in Zimbabwe |
Edward Chikomba, a former employee of the state-owned Zimbabwe Broadcasting Holdings (ZBH) was found dead on 31 March, two days after being kidnapped in Harare by men suspected of being members of the intelligence services. The death has come as the latest in a serious of escalations in the country.
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| World Press Freedom Day: WAN Launches it’s 3 May Campaign |
Major terrorist attacks and threats against countries world-wide have led to the widespread tightening of security and surveillance measures which all too often are also used to stifle debate, individual liberties and freedom of the press, according to the World Association of Newspapers.
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| Alerts From the Continent |
In Puntland, Somalia, a TV crew was reportedly arrested following the order of a presidential spokesman on 8 April. Abdulkadir Ashir ‘Nadara’, head of the privately-owned TV station Universal TV, as well as journalist Bashir Dirie Nalei and cameraman Hamud Mohammed Osman from the same TV station, were reportedly arrested at Mogadishu airport and have been held since, according to the National Union of Somali Journalists (NUSOJ).
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| FELLOWSHIPS
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| Alfred Friendly Press Fellowships names 2007 Fellows |
Nine journalists, including two from Kenya and Rwanda have been named the Alfred Friendly Press Fellows (AFPF) for 2007 and arrived in the United States 16 March to begin six months of journalism training in American news organizations.
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| Daniel Pearl Fellowship |
The Daniel Pearl Fellowships, which have been offered to journalists from Muslim countries since 2003 in partnership with the AFPF, will be hosted by two newsrooms where Daniel Pearl worked-the Washington, DC bureau of The Wall Street Journal and The San Francisco Chronicle.
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| MISA scholarship Exchange Program |
The Media Institute of South Africa (MISA) offers a scholarship exchange program to assist individual media practitioners in all areas of the media (managerial, editorial, advertising, and technical) who “wish to work on attachment in another media institution to learn new skills and develop existing ones.”
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