by Sydney Smith on Feb 18, 2011
TV7 Outed Gay AU Politician, Ruled Justified Invasion of Privacy?
The Australian Communications and Media Authority (ACMA) recently ruled that a TV network was justified in outing politician David Campbell...
International Media Ethics News
by Sydney Smith on Feb 17, 2011
India Political Party Offers Journalists Free Computers? Is it Ethical?
An Indian political party has offered journalists free computers, the Associated Press reported. The group, Congress party, made the offer to...
by Sydney Smith on Feb 17, 2011
Hungary Will “Amend” Media Law
Hungary's government stated that it will "ease" its media laws after receiving much criticism. Hungary currently has the EU presidency....
by Sydney Smith on Feb 16, 2011
Cuba Bloggers see sites Unblocked
"More than 40" Cuban "dissent bloggers' websites" were unblocked, the Knight Center for Journalism in the Americas reported. The unblocking...
by Sydney Smith on Feb 15, 2011
Rwanda Journalists Imprisoned for Defamation, ‘Genocide Revisionism’
Reporters without Borders, Amnesty International and the Committee to Protect Journalists "slammed" a recent conviction and imprisonment given to two...
by David W. Moore on Feb 14, 2011
Do Egyptians Really Want ‘Democracy?’ Reinterpreting the Pew Report
According to a recent Pew Global Attitudes Project article, a Pew poll of Muslims in Egypt last year found that...
by Sydney Smith on Feb 14, 2011
Irish Tribune Calls for Irish Daily Mail Owner to be Kicked out of Newspaper Union
The Irish Mail on Sunday published a four-page wraparound of its newspaper with the masthead of another Irish newspaper, the...
by Sydney Smith on Feb 14, 2011
Nigerian Journalists Must Make Tough Ethics Calls Before Publishing
Nigerian newspaper The Daily Independent published an analysis about "coping with the demands of responsive journalism." According to the Independent's...
by Sydney Smith on Feb 12, 2011
Israeli Media: Bill to Ban Pix of Victims Could Limit Press Freedom
Two Israeli lawmakers, Uri Maklev and Moshe Gafni have proposed a bill banning Israeli media from publishing pictures of "injured or...