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Caribbean journalists mark World Press Freedom Day

Caribbean media workers from 12 island nations today joined in downtown Kingston to sign the Declaration of Emancipation Park in observance of World Press Freedom Day 2014. The signers acknowledged the role of independent media in promoting good governance, empowerment and the eradication of poverty, and they pledged to monitor and influence the rule of […]

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IPI director to deliver speech at World Press Freedom Day in Jamaica

International Press Institute Executive Director Alison Bethel McKenzie will deliver the keynote address at a World Press Freedom Day event taking place in Kingston, Jamaica on May 2-3. The event organised by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) in cooperation with IPI, the Press Association of Jamaica (PAJ), the Association of Caribbean […]

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Groups mark Europe’s support on World Press Freedom Day

The European Commission’s support for projects addressing violations of media freedom and pluralism, and providing practical support to journalists, gives European Union countries reason to celebrate this year on May 3, World Press Freedom Day, media freedom watchdogs said today. However, new research into defamation law and practice – one of four, one-year projects launched […]

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Egyptian journalist Bassem Sabry dies

Bassem Sabry, an Egyptian journalist and commentator who was among those accepting the International Press Institute’s Free Media Pioneer Award at the recent IPI World Congress in South Africa, died yesterday in an apparent accident in Cairo. He was 31. Sabry was widely respected for the reports and commentaries he filed from Cairo on the […]

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