One of the goals in the media guidelines is a more Latvian media environment

One of the goals in the media guidelines is a more Latvian media environment

She reminded that the media guidelines are a policy planning document, which will be accompanied by an action plan, which could be submitted for public consultation in the summer. She explained that the media guidelines define the goals to be achieved, as well as the basic principles of what the media environment should be. Logina … Read more

St. Louis TV Station KMOV Faces Backlash After Anchor Cory Stark Uses Outdated Racial Term

St. Louis TV Station KMOV Faces Backlash After Anchor Cory Stark Uses Outdated Racial Term

St. Louis TV Station Under Fire After Anchor Uses Outdated Racial Term St. Louis TV Station Under Fire After Anchor Uses Outdated Racial Term By David Propper Published March 6, 2024, 12:08 a.m. ET Television station KMOV is receiving backlash after one of its anchors referred to minority homeowners using an “outdated, offensive, and racist” … Read more

Abuses and Misconduct in Hilversum: Vulnerabilities in Broadcasting Employees and First Steps Towards Transparency

Abuses and Misconduct in Hilversum: Vulnerabilities in Broadcasting Employees and First Steps Towards Transparency

Hardly any permanent contracts, failing leadership and no participation: that is the reality in Hilversum. The result? Major abuses and few people speaking out about them. What makes broadcasting employees so vulnerable as targets or witnesses of misconduct? Outbursts of anger, arguments, disparaging remarks, exclusion, gossip, sexist comments or pinching of colleagues’ buttocks, breasts and … Read more

Journalists’ Union Condemns Attacks on Media at FC Porto Event: Third Incident in Two Weeks

Journalists’ Union Condemns Attacks on Media at FC Porto Event: Third Incident in Two Weeks

The Journalists’ Union (SJ) repudiated this Tuesday the attacks on journalists, with lighters, that occurred during the presentation of Pinto da Costa’s re-candidacy for the presidency of FC Porto, late Sunday afternoon, at the Coliseu. This is the “third case of intimidation, nationally, in two weeks”, which is why the SJ called for those responsible … Read more

Santiago Pavlovic: The Chilean Journalist Who Defied Dictatorship and Reports for Five Decades

Santiago Pavlovic: The Chilean Journalist Who Defied Dictatorship and Reports for Five Decades

Santiago Pavlovic Urionabarrenechea (Sewell, Chile, 77 years old), journalist from the University of Chile, is one of the few, if not the only Chilean reporter, who continues working in the field after more than five decades. He was already on National Television (TVN), the public channel, when the socialist president and leader of the Popular … Read more

International Journalists’ Federation Reports 120 Journalists Killed in 2023, Majority in Gaza Strip

International Journalists’ Federation Reports 120 Journalists Killed in 2023, Majority in Gaza Strip

Dec 31, 2023 at 6:00 PM Update: an hour ago In 2023, 120 journalists have died on the job, reports the international journalists’ federation IFJ. More than two-thirds of them were killed in the Gaza Strip. In Europe, 3 journalists were killed: 2 in the war in Ukraine and 1 in Albania. On December 8, … Read more

The Cuban regime keeps communications cut off to activists and journalists

The Cuban regime keeps communications cut off to activists and journalists

It will be a week since several activists and independent journalists on the Island have suffered connection problems. Telecommunications outages began, in most cases, on the eve of December 10, International Human Rights Day, and continue this Friday. The Lady in White Berta Soler and her husband, former Black Spring prisoner Ángel Moya, are among … Read more

The mental health of journalists is overlooked…despite the accumulation of disasters and wars

The mental health of journalists is overlooked…despite the accumulation of disasters and wars

Amid these circumstances, many may believe that addressing the issue of mental health is not a priority at all, especially after the recent killing of a large number of male and female journalists, during the war in Gaza, and the clashes on the Lebanese border with Palestine. However, it is no longer possible to deny … Read more

Beniarjó City Council Provides Aid for Childhood Vaccines Not Covered by Public Health System

Beniarjó City Council Provides Aid for Childhood Vaccines Not Covered by Public Health System

For the fifth consecutive year, the Beniarjó City Council is calling for aid aimed at the acquisition of childhood vaccines that are not covered by the current Valencian public health system because they are not considered mandatory but are recommended by the Spanish Pediatric Association. Specifically, the Beniarjoter council will help families with minors pay … Read more

Journalist Detained in Russia for Violating Foreign Agents Act: Faces up to Five Years in Prison

Journalist Detained in Russia for Violating Foreign Agents Act: Faces up to Five Years in Prison

Kurmasheva was charged with violating the Foreign Agents Act by the Investigative Committee, which functions as a criminal center in Russia. In Russia, there is an official list of foreign agents, to which the Ministry of Justice can add virtually anyone it deems to be under foreign influence. These persons are then subject to stricter … Read more