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WASHINGTON, May 3, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- On the occasion of World Press Freedom Day, the National Press Club announced the winners of its 2013 John Aubuchon Press Freedom Awards: Zeynep Kuray, a woman reporter from Turkey, which jails more journalists than any other nation; and, in the United States, "The Whistleblower." (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20080917/NPCLOGO ) Each year, the NPC confers its Aubuchon award on people whose work and lives have advanced the...
OTTAWA, May 2, 2013 /CNW/ - Stephen Maher of Postmedia News and Glen McGregor of The Ottawa Citizen will be the 15(th) recipients of the World Press Freedom Award, at the Canadian Committee for World Press Freedom's (CCWPF's) annual luncheon celebration at the Ottawa Convention Centre. Maher and McGregor were selected for the Award for a series of stories they co-wrote on the so-called 'Robocalls" affair exposing fraud in the federal election of 2011. This not only touched off...
WASHINGTON, May 3, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The National Press Club commemorated the 20th anniversary of World Press Freedom Day with a sober reminder of how unfree the press is in most of the world and a pledge to keep working to change that. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20080917/NPCLOGO) Created in 1993 by the United Nations General Assembly, World Press Freedom Day is celebrated on May 3 of each year and has three goals. The first is to evaluate the state of...
WASHINGTON, April 16, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The National Press Club's Press Freedom Committee will hold a panel discussion on May 2, the night before World Press Freedom Day, about the growing role of media organizations that are at least partly government-funded. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20080917/NPCLOGO) As the press in most western democracies has had to retrench in recent years, cutting staffs and abandoning foreign (and domestic) bureaus, there is...
Regulation of the Internet will be the subject of a timely panel discussion on April 24 at the National Press Club. WASHINGTON, April 8, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Just over a week ahead of World Press Freedom Day, the National Press Club's Press Freedom Committee and the Center for International Media Assistance at the National Endowment for Democracy will jointly present a wide-ranging and in-depth discussion of Internet freedom. (Logo:...
WASHINGTON, Feb. 13, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- During Sunshine Week, March 10-16, the National Press Club Journalism Institute and the Club's Professional Affairs and Freedom of the Press committees plan to help journalists and others obtain information that the government might not want you to have. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20080917/NPCLOGO) Reporters and watchdogs will offer tips on how to use the Freedom of Information Act to ferret out documents and data...
WASHINGTON, Feb. 12, 2013 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The National Press Club expressed grave concern Tuesday over reports that the government of Turkey is using anti-terrorism laws to jail more working journalists than any other country in the world. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20080917/NPCLOGO) All told, 42 journalists and four media assistants are incarcerated in Turkey, more than in Iran, China or any other country known for repression of the press, according to...
KYIV, September 10, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Ukraine just finished hosting the 64th World Newspaper Congress and 19th World Editors Forum, attended by almost 1000 representatives of the world-leading media from over 90 countries. The congress offered a platform for discussing issues of the future of media industry and newspaper operations, digital challenges and profitability. International media CEOs had a chance to meet Ukrainian government officials and reflect on the issues of...
KYIV, Ukraine, September 6, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- The government has been constantly improving legislation that is related to the principles of access to public information, said President of Ukraine Viktor Yanukovych in his speech at the opening of the 64th World Newspaper Forum and the 19th World Forum of Editors in Kyiv (September 2-5, 2012). Those public officials who impede access to public information will face administrative and criminal charges, assured head of state....
WASHINGTON, May 29, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The National Press Club on Friday urged the Malaysian government to honor its promise to reform the country's oppressive press laws and cease targeting journalists who publish critical stories. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20080917/NPCLOGO) Prime Minister Najib Razak last September announced he would relax harsh security restrictions that curb freedom of expression and assembly rights and scrap the Printing Press and...
