IDN InDepthNews informs on topics related to globalization, global governance and international cooperation http://indepthnews.net/area2.php?key=MD Fri, 16 Jul 2010 01:52:36 +0100 http://indepthnews.net/images/rechts.jpg http://indepthnews.net/area2.php?key=MD 292 117 IDN InDepthNews | Analysis That Matters de-de rjaura@globalommedia.com(Ramesh Jaura) jbusse@globalommedia.com(Joerg-Werner Busse) 60 http://indepthnews.net/news/news.php?key1=2010-07-16%2001:52:36&key2=1 By Jaya Ramachandran IDN-InDepth NewsAnalysis PARIS (IDN) - For the third time in less than two years, the United Nations agency tasked with defending press freedom has expressed concern over the death of an Indian journalist. Hem Chandra Pandey is the third Indian journalist to be killed since December 2008. He was killed early July 2010 along with a Maoist leader in an encounter with police in the southern state of Andhra Pradesh. http://indepthnews.net/news/news.php?key1=2010-07-16%2001:52:36&key2=1 http://indepthnews.net/news/news.php?key1=2010-06-21%2000:44:36&key2=1 By IDN Media Watch IDN-InDepth NewsAnalysis PARIS (IDN) - A new report has confirmed that the changing global media landscape offers fresh opportunities and is, at the same time, fraught with risks that might jeopardize democracy. The report provides an insight into the international newspaper market and its evolution, with particular emphasis on its economics, the development of online news, related opportunities and challenges and policy approaches. http://indepthnews.net/news/news.php?key1=2010-06-21%2000:44:36&key2=1 http://indepthnews.net/news/news.php?key1=2010-06-16%2015:49:29&key2=1 By Kalinga Seneviratne* IDN-InDepth NewsAnalysis SINGAPORE (IDN) - In the 1990s, pressured by the globalization push from the West, there was a great wave of media liberalization across Asia. Many governments reluctantly gave up control of the airwaves, first allowing private FM radio and later private television channels as well. A decade or more after this wave of media liberation swept Asia, many communication experts in the region are now arguing . . . http://indepthnews.net/news/news.php?key1=2010-06-16%2015:49:29&key2=1 http://indepthnews.net/news/news.php?key1=2010-06-11%2018:51:44&key2=1 By S. M. Raheen* IDN-InDepth NewsViewpoint KABUL (IDN) - Nine years ago, we did not have mass media in Afghanistan. The Taliban punished even Television sets by hanging them in public. In fact the terms 'free press' and 'freedom of speech' were omitted from the life of the people of Afghanistan for three decades. Following the formation of the interim government in pursuance of the Bonn Conference, the Ministry of Information and Culture during the first month of the establishment of the interim administration presented to the Council of Ministers . . . http://indepthnews.net/news/news.php?key1=2010-06-11%2018:51:44&key2=1 http://indepthnews.net/news/news.php?key1=2010-05-31%2016:30:40&key2=1 By Thoyyib Mohamed * IDN-InDepth NewsViewpoint MALE (IDN) - Did you know that a significant number of Maldivians know how to speak Hindi? This is of course in addition to our local language, Dhivehi and the English that is taught in schools? Not Sinhalese or Tamil, as that of our closest neighbor Sri Lanka, but Hindi - - the Hindi of Sony and Zee TV, the language of numerous Indian teledramas and Bollywood movies. Maldivians anticipate eagerly the entertainment they view from these mass media broadcasting channels and replicate it in their dress, language, music and our own local broadcasting. http://indepthnews.net/news/news.php?key1=2010-05-31%2016:30:40&key2=1 http://indepthnews.net/news/news.php?key1=2010-05-28%2000:36:22&key2=1 By Madhu Datta IDN-InDepth NewsAnalysis BEIJING (IDN) - Who is afraid of "creativity, credibility, rights and responsibilities" of the media? Certainly not China - particularly when it comes to projecting the image of a modern and vibrant country. For this, the Asia Media Summit 2010 in Beijing - organized by the inter-governmental Asia-Pacific Institute for Broadcasting Development (AIBD) and the Chinese State Administration of Radio, Film and Television (SARFT) - provided an ideal opportunity. The summit's theme, said Liu Yunshan, director of the publicity department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China (CPC), reflected "the thoughts and concerns of the media world for its own future as well as the attention http://indepthnews.net/news/news.php?key1=2010-05-28%2000:36:22&key2=1 http://indepthnews.net/news/news.php?key1=2010-05-05%2007:59:58&key2=1 By Jutta Wolf IDN-InDepth NewsAnalysis BERLIN (IDN) - Thirty governments around the world will soon be approached by Transparency International (TI) and members of the Freedom of Information Advocates Network as well as the United Nations Convention against Corruption (UNCAC) to give information on what they have done to combat bribery. http://indepthnews.net/news/news.php?key1=2010-05-05%2007:59:58&key2=1 http://indepthnews.net/news/news.php?key1=2010-02-05%2001:56:18&key2=1 Ramesh Jaura Talks To UN Under-Secretary-General KIYO AKASAKA IDN-InDepth NewsInterview BERLIN/NEW YORK (IDN) - Imagine blockbusters made in Bollywood and Hollywood with disarmament, climate change, millennium development goals and women as central themes - and the opening scenes showing a sign that says: "United Nations. It's your world." http://indepthnews.net/news/news.php?key1=2010-02-05%2001:56:18&key2=1 http://indepthnews.net/news/news.php?key1=2009-12-13%2023:17:01&key2=1 BY KAREEM EZZAT* IDN-InDepthNews Service (IDN) - Unlike chess games, where players are eager to win by overthrowing the king, the situation in Western-blessed Arab ruling regimes is completely the opposite. There, the king (or his factual equivalent -- the president) is simply unapproachable, untouchable and untellable. http://indepthnews.net/news/news.php?key1=2009-12-13%2023:17:01&key2=1 http://indepthnews.net/news/news.php?key1=2009-09-05%2008:04:31&key2=1 BY LYNETTE LEE CORPORAL IDN-InDepthNews Service BANGKOK (IDN/AMF*) - They were usually the first to arrive at work and the last to leave, and often took the blame for boo-boos in the following days issue of the newspaper. Now the newsrooms unsung heroes, who engage in a daily deadline battle armed only with their sharp eye for detail and those squiggly proofreading marks, are facing a new kind of threat -- extinction. http://indepthnews.net/news/news.php?key1=2009-09-05%2008:04:31&key2=1