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Building Libya's New Media "From a Void"
By D. Parvaz*
TRIPOLI - Going from being a country with a highly controlled press to one that has free, independent and functioning media in roughly a year is a tall order.
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Journalism is Not ‘More Fun’ in the Philippines
By Dennis Engbarth
MANILA - Reporters working in the Philippines, the world’s third most dangerous nation for journalists, are having difficulty identifying with the "It’s More Fun in the Philippines" tourism promotion campaign launched by the Liberal Party-led government of President Benigno Aquino III.
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Journalists and Netizens in Govt Crosshairs
By Johanna Treblin and Emilio Godoy*
UNITED NATIONS/MEXICO CITY - Two years ago, Ashkan Delanvar was arrested by Iranian authorities and held in poor conditions for 14 days before he was sentenced to 10 months in prison.
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Latin American Media Chose Not to Publish Certain WikiLeaks Cables
By Marcela Valente
BUENOS AIRES - According to a book published in the Argentine capital, major Latin American newspapers with access to the secret cables obtained by Wikileaks decided not to print them because doing so would run counter to their own interests.
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COLOMBIA
Missing French Reporter’s Journalistic Mission
By Constanza Vieira
BOGOTÁ - Romeo Langlois, a French reporter in Colombia, removed his helmet and bullet-proof vest and ran towards the guerrillas during fighting between them and Colombian army troops on Saturday, Defence Minister Juan Carlos Pinzón reported.
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Seedbed of Technology Flourishes in Guatemala
By Danilo Valladares
GUATEMALA CITY - "We're making a three-dimensional educational video game. The idea is to create virtual worlds where children can explore and interact with other people and objects," said Carlos Villagrán, seated at a computer in the Campus Tecnológico in the Guatemalan capital.
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Nazi Propaganda Gets a Makeover in Serbia
By Vesna Peric Zimonjic
BELGRADE - As the May 6 date for Serbia’s general election inches closer, two young Belgrade playwrights have capitalised on the electoral war of words between the pro-European camp and conservative nationalists to highlight the dark side of propaganda and expose the omnipotence of party membership.
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Vietnam Clamps Down on Bloggers
By Marwaan Macan-Markar
BANGKOK - A pioneer of citizens’ journalism in Vietnam is risking 20 years in jail for defending Internet freedom and exposing the draconian censorship laws in this communist party-ruled country.
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Q&A
Harnessing the African Information Renaissance
Charundi Panagoda interviews TEDDY RUGE of Project Diaspora
WASHINGTON - About 140 million Africans are now on the internet. With half of the population under age 15 and 70 percent of the population under 30, social media is becoming an important feature in the continent's development path.
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U.S.
New Steps by Obama to Curb Atrocities in Syria, Elsewhere
By Jim Lobe*
WASHINGTON - In a major speech commemmorating the Nazi Holocaust, U.S. President Barack Obama Monday announced several steps his administration will take to curb mass atrocities abroad, including in Syria where he is under continuing pressure to intervene with military force.
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OP-ED
Tweeting Democracy Across the Arab World
By Guy Golan, Ph.D.*
SYRACUSE, New York - Over the past few years, the political landscape of the Middle East was wholly transformed by the diffusion of social media across the region. Accounting for 50-65 percent of the region's population, young Muslims quickly embraced these new platforms of mass communication and soon thereafter, they became leaders of revolutions.
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Afghan Journalists Strain Against Gags
By Giuliana Sgrena
KABUL - Afghanistan is quickly becoming one of the deadliest countries in the world for foreign and local journalists. In the last decade alone, 16 journalists have been killed on the job and so far no one has been brought to justice for these murders.
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Montevideo Selected as Regional Internet Centre
By Álvaro Queiruga
MONTEVIDEO - The capital of Uruguay has become the headquarters of Latin America’s six leading Internet organisations, brought together in the same building.
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OP-ED
The Arab Spring: Youth, Freedom and the Tools of Technology
By Megan R. Martin*
CALIFORNIA, U.S. - Wielding mobile phones and computers, the young activists across the Middle East have altered the way the world approaches popular mobilisation, social networks and Internet freedom.
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Chinese Dissidents Silenced for London Book Fair
By Emily-Anne Owen
BEIJING - A dissident Chinese author has expressed dismay at the lack of independent and exiled authors represented at this year’s London Book Fair (LBF), where China is guest of honour. An ensuing public spat, revolving around accusations that the Fair’s organisers have bowed to Chinese authorities, has thrust the thorny issue of censorship to centre-stage.
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