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Read more about UP govt announced Rs 10 lakh aid for kins of scribes who died due to Covid on Business Standard. In a bid to encourage and honour the tireless and unparalleled contribution of journalists, Yogi Adityanath announced Rs 10 lakh financial aid for family members of scribes who died due to Covid-19
Starcom parts ways with Goddard Article by May 20, 2021 The Barbados Association of Journalists and Media Workers (BARJAM) is questioning a decision by Starcom Network Inc to part ways with its president, Keith Goddard. Sources at the River Road, St Michael organisation revealed that during a recent meeting with top management, the senior journalist was informed that his services would no longer be required. Barbados TODAY understands that during a meeting in late April, newsroom staff were informed of the company’s intention to promote Goddard, a senior freelance rep...
May 4, 2021 On this World Press Freedom Day 2021 and as we reflect on the theme Access to Information as a Public Good, I thought it instructive to share with the public – particularly media workers – insights into a 2008 draft Freedom of Information Bill, which after 13 years remains mere words on paper. That bill was introduced by the former Democratic Labour Party (DLP) Government of late Prime Minister David Thompson and when he died on October 23, 2010, the proposed legislation continued to make the rounds within the public service under his successor, Freundel Stuart. All ...
THE National Union of Journalists (NUJ) vowed to renew efforts to defend media workers on World Press Freedom Day today. The union warned that the Covid-19 pandemic has had a massive impact on journalists globally — the Press Emblem Campaign has estimated that more than 1,000 media workers have died with the virus. Assaults and death threats against journalists have also become increasingly common over the last year, the NUJ said. The union condemned the Tory government’s new Police, Crime, Sentencing and Courts Bill as a “substantial threat” to public interest journali...
April 30, 2021 In advance of May 3, World Press Freedom Day, U.S. Embassy Bridgetown partnered with Barbados journalists and the Caribbean Investigative Journalism Network (CIJN) to celebrate the importance of a free press as an indispensable component of any free society. To mark the occasion, the Embassy hosted a three-day virtual investigative journalism workshop for over fifty Caribbean journalists. Recently-elected President of the Barbados Association of Journalists and Media Workers (BARJAM) Keith Goddard, who participated in the program, said, “The training provided very useful ...