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Newsletter n°6
07.03.08
NEWS FROM THE MEDIA SCENE
Outside News Source Provides Indigenous Perspective on Upcoming Elections in Zimbabwe
The Zimbabwean presidential elections will be held on 29 March 2008 in the backdrop of rigged presidential elections and a muzzled independent media. According to the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), this repressive climate has forced 48 journalists to seek refuge outside the country since 2001, creating the largest group of exiled journalists in the world. However, this has allowed Zimbabwean journalists now outside of their native country to lend insight and provide information to their people through new media outlets physically removed from the repression.
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Women’s Perspective Needed to Report on African News Adequately
The most influential newsroom figures behind what headlines get printed and in what approach are still in many countries men. This implicitly means that what many read in a newspaper is heavily shaped by the perspectives of only one sex-important topics to particularly women, such as forced marriage, girls’ education, and rape are thus sometimes deemed trivial, one-sided, or even absent.
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Newsroom Barometer Survey Gets Underway
The World Editors Forum, Reuters and Zogby International began collecting data for the second annual Newsroom Barometer, a global survey of chief editors about their attitudes and strategies in the multimedia age.
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PRESS FREEDOM
International Protest Against New Press Law in Chad
A new law that increases the maximum penalty for press offenses and tightens the requirements for launching a newspaper in Chad has sparked several protests from international press organizations, including the World Association of Newspapers (WAN).
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World’s Press Condemns Jail Sentences for Algerian Journalists
The World Association of Newspapers and the World Editors Forum have protested to Algerian President Abdelaziz Bouteflika against the jail sentences imposed against two leading journalists for a column criticising a local official.
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Alerts from the Continent
Repression of the privately-owned media has escalated amid soaring oil and commodity prices and consequent street demonstrations in Cameroon. Reporters Without Borders (RSF) reported on several cases of physical violence targeted at journalists and arrests. On 3 March 2008 Jacques Blaise Mvié, the publisher of the La Nouvelle Presse weekly was arrested and is being held incommunicado in an undisclosed location for a 27 February article that suggested the involvement of defense minister Rémy Ze Meka in a September 2007 coup attempt.
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JOB OPPORTUNITIES
Call for African Reporters
Africa Interactive is looking for African reporters, photographers, filmmakers and webloggers. Africa Interactive, publisher of www.africanews.com, is an online platform that aims to show a better-balanced and multifaceted image of the African continent.
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CONFERENCES & SEMINARS
800 African Journalists Gather For Environmental Forum
The second conference of the African Network of Environment Journalists took place on 24 February in Nouakchott, Mauritania.
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AWARDS OPPORTUNITIES
African Excellence in HIV/AIDS Journalism to Be Awarded
African journalists have the opportunity to enter the Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation Award for Excellence in African HIV/AIDS Journalism. The deadline to enter the contest is 14 March 2008.
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Knight International Journalism Awards Calls for Nominations
Journalists can now be nominated for the 2008 Knight International Journalism Awards. The deadline for submissions is 4 April.
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