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Daily Monitor Tuesday May 04 2021 Advertisement This year’s World Press Freedom Day was celebrated around the theme, ‘information as a public good’. It comes at a time when a sense of the public good is getting lost. Information is often in the hands of the public and citizen journalists are taking matters in their hands.  Our 1995 Constitution provides for access to information and an operational law in the Freedom of Information Act, 2005. The provision for public broadcasting in the U...

Share In commemoration of this year’s World Press Freedom Day, the Nigerian Guild of Editors (NGE), on Monday condemned in strong terms, what it described as attempts muzzling the media, urging governments at all levels in Nigeria to value information as a public good and treat the conveyors of information as partners, instead of seeing them as enemies. NGE in a statement signed by its president, Mustapha Isah and its General Secretary, Mary Atolagbe, stated that the media is a partner and cr...

Move Jailed Kerala Journalist To Delhi For Treatment: Supreme Court To UP Move Jailed Kerala Journalist To Delhi For Treatment: Supreme Court To UP On April 24, Mr Kappans wife had petitioned the Chief Justice of India, saying her husband, who was infected with coronavirus, has been tied to a cot at a hospital in Mathura and not even allowed to go to the toilet. The Supreme Court said Siddique Kappan can be sent back to the Mathura jail after he recovers. New Delhi: Jailed Kerala journalis...

THE STANDARD By Mercy Asamba | March 1st 2021 at 15:57:02 GMT +0300 Kenya Editors Guild (KEG) President Churchill Otieno at a past event. [File, Standard] The Kenya Editors’ Guild has written to the National Assembly to petition over the removal of Media Council of Kenya board member. In a letter to Clerk of the National Assembly, Michael Sialai, the Editor’s Guild President Charles Otieno said the purported removal of Tabitha Mutemi outside the procedures outlined in the Media Council Ac...

Bangladesh Observer (formerly Pakistan Observer), on February 13, went past quietly, unnoticed both by the press circle and civil society. This amounts to disparaging the contribution of a pioneering elder in the profession who had virtually laid the foundations of our nascent English journalism and brought it to a solid footing. It is more often than not we tend to forget our heroes, which in terms of historical perspective is an obvious fault line in our culture. Such anniversaries provide m...

Daily Monitor Thursday February 18 2021 Mr Timothy Murungi, a photojournalist with Vision Group, publisher of the New Vision newspaper sustained a head injury after the security assault . PHOTOS/ MICHAEL KAKUMIRIZI Summary Ms Irene Abalo, a reporter with NMG-Uganda, writhed at the International Diagnostic Centre (IDC) Hospital on Yusuf Lule Road in Kampala yesterday where she was rushed after soldiers injured her during a crackdown on journalists. Advertisement Dozens of soldiers yesterday beat...

Media Bodies Slam FIRs Against Journalists, Want Sedition Law to Be Scrapped The bodies compared the situation today to an undeclared emergency and demanded the cases filed against journalists for reporting on the farmers tractor rally be removed. Mrinal Pande, Rajdeep Sardesai and Ananth Nag. Rights31/Jan/2021 Jaipur: The sedition cases that have been slapped on journalists for sharing “unverified” news during the farmers’ tractor rally in Delhi on January 26 reeks of a conspir...

Hundreds of policemen were injured in the tractor rally in Delhi, police said (File) New Delhi: A police case has been filed against "The Wire" editor Siddharth Varadarajan over his tweet sharing a news report filed by the web portal regarding the death of a farmer during the tractor rally on Republic Day. The First Information Report accuses him of making imputations, assertions prejudicial to national-integration and statements conducing to public mischief. The farmer who died in Delhi was f...

Delhi Police Arrest Journalist at Singhu Protest Site, Detain and Release Another Mandeep Punia, a freelance journalist, was arrested and will be produced in court. Dharmender Singh, who works for Online News India, was detained and let go at 5 am on Sunday. Mandeep Punia. Photo: Twitter/mandeeppunia1 Rights31/Jan/2021 New Delhi: The Delhi police on Saturday detained two journalists covering the ongoing farmers’ agitation at Delhi’s Singhu border. While one of them, Mandeep Punia is a fr...

Farmers Protest Highlights: 44 arrested for violence at Singhu border, says Delhi Police Jan 29, 2021 / 11:11 PM IST Farmers Protest LIVE Updates: The Delhi Chalo farmers agitation has entered the 65th day. Delhis border points at Tikri and Singhu remain under heavy police deployment in the aftermath of the violence that broke out during a tractor parade by farmers in the national capital on Republic Day. Farmers Protest LIVE Updates: The Delhi Chalo farmers protest at border points of New D...