WORLD PRESS FREEDOM DAY

Events

NAMIBIA: Media in Africa: 20 Years On

(Media Institute of Southern Africa/World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers/UNESCO/Government of Namibia) Two-day conference celebrating the 20th anniversary of the Windhoek Declaration on promoting an independent and pluralistic African press. Learn about the past, present and future of African media, from those who observed, lived and shaped it. MISA will unveil its hefty annual report, "So this is media freedom? 20 years after the Windhoek Declaration on Press Freedom" and convene the inaugural Judge John Oliver Manyarara Memorial Lecture on Press Freedom.
Safari Court Hotel, Windhoek, 5-6 May
5 May 2011

UNITED STATES: Life after WikiLeaks: Who Won the Information War?

(Index on Censorship/Columbia Journalism School) Julian Assange's attorney Mark Stephens, investigative journalist Andrei Soldatov, Tow Center for Digital Journalism director Emily Bell, and Washington Post columnist Richard Cohen debate the fallout from WikiLeaks for free speech, national security and the media. Free, but space is limited. To secure your place, register in advance.
Lecture Hall, 3rd floor, Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, 116th & Broadway, New York City, 7.30pm
4 May 2011

Government hijacks World Press Freedom Day event Officials in Ethiopia celebrated World Press Freedom Day by hijacking a local UNESCO-sponsored 3 May event, putting up pro-government journalists as speakers and cancelling independent journalists who were scheduled to speak, reports the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ).
11 May 2011
WAJA World Press Freedom Day statement WAJA stands in solidarity with fallen colleagues in the region and victims of threats, harassment and legal intimidation in Côte d'Ivoire, Togo, Sierra Leone and Senegal.
10 May 2011
IFJ supports photojournalists' fight against arbitrary ban in London London-based photographers staged a Flashmob outside City Hall to denounce arbitrary restrictions on their work in a city where the banning of photography in many public spaces is enforced by private security guards.
6 May 2011