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266, Jan 2006
Sean Hawkey speaks to Cuban journalists about their lives and work, about Cuban journalism, the US blockade and their struggle for truth and justice. Five journalists are interviewed including Moltó, a journalist with a trajectory of 40 years who runs a highly critical radio programme called "Hablando Claro" (Speaking Clearly) that channels criticism from the Cuban people to institutions and functionaries of the government. Also featured is news on the The WACC Photographic Competition 2006: 'The Media and People'. This competition, in its third year, it is being run on the Flickr website for the first time! It closes on May 1st and has cash prizes!
This competition, in its third year, it is being run on the Flickr website for the first time! It closes on May 1st and has cash prizes!
Sean Hawkey speaks to Cuban journalists about their lives and work, about Cuban journalism, the US blockade and their struggle for truth and justice.
Sheila Jacobs*
The Internet is a revolutionary new communications space of fascinating diversity. It reflects the richness of real life, with some of its truths but many of its half-truths (and untruths!) too. As a virtual place, it poses a particular conundrum to churches and the extent to which "church" can happen within a virtual world.
Details of the news book: Towards a Sustainable Information Society: Deconstructing WSIS edited by Jan Servaes and Nico Carpentier.
The International Freedom of Expression eXchange (IFEX) has published "Campaigning for Free Expression: A Handbook for Advocates" aimed at equipping human rights activists around the world with essential tools to campaign more effectively for freedom of expression and press freedom.
The film L'ENFANT by Belgian directors Jean Pierre and Luc Dardenne is the winner of the John Templeton European Film of the Year Award 2005. The Award is presented on behalf of the US-based Templeton Foundation by the International Church Film Organisation INTERFILM and the Conference of European Churches, and is chosen by an international jury. It carries the sum of € 10,000.- and a certificate of recognition. The winner is selected from the Ecumenical Awards given at international film festivals and the "Film of the Month" nominations of the Evangelical Film Juy in Germany and of the Catholic Media Service and the Reformed Media in Switzerland during the past year.
María Elena Hermosilla
“¿Quién lo hubiera pensado, amigas y amigos....Quién lo hubiera pensado? ¿Quién hubiera pensando, hace veinte, diez o cinco años, que Chile elegiría como Presidente a una mujer?”
Invitation to event on June 18, Dresden, Germany
Rationale and goals for the Symposium:
Feminist media scholarship emerged in the 1970s out of a central concern about the general absence of women in news, the misreporting of women’s experiences and roles in society, and the barriers to women’s advancement in news industries. All of these issues were understood to be associated with public understanding about women’s inequality, and the political discourse needed for women to advance within their societies. Such concerns about the news, shared by women in all nations, also manifested themselves in women’s liberation movements both within and across nations during the last three decades, as women sought to expand the amount and quality of coverage on women’s issues and social contributions, and to address discrimination in employment. Thus, there has been a longstanding relationship between feminist scholarship on news and political action carried on by women working in popular fronts.
