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1. News Media

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Created on 25 December 2015

2. MULTIMEDIA

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Created on 25 December 2015

3. Phil Harris

(Contacts / Editors and Bureau Chiefs)

... discuss different perspectives on the role of the state, the range of cultural impact and influence beyond the media, the roles of international organisations and business interests in world communications, ...

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4. Kalinga Seneviratne

(Contacts / Board of Directors)

... He was the Head of the research division of the Asian Media Information and Communication Centre (AMIC) in Singapore from 2005-2012. He holds a PhD in International Communications, MA in Social Sciences ...

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5. INPS-IDN Editors

(Contacts / Organizations)

... name of Globalom Media Group -- is an information, communication and publishing agency committed to social and ethical responsibility. Its publications include online and print magazines such as the Global ...

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6. Global Cooperation Council

(Contacts / Organizations)

... to promoting collaboration and exchange of knowledge in and about a fast-changing and increasingly complex world. For this purpose, the Council has joined the Globalom Media Information – Communication ...

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7. Breaking Media Stereotypes with Indigenous Storytelling

(UN INSIDER)

... media only cover one aspect of the Indigenous story that focuses on vulnerabilities, traditions or harmful stereotypes, including in the context of COVID-19 which continues to cause a great deal of damage ...

Created on 23 October 2020

8. Reviewing the Book 'Myth of ‘Free Media’ and Fake News in the Post-Truth Era

(ARTS & CULTURE)

... media and China gathering momentum, a timely new book sheds some light on how the so-called “free media” has ditched its libertarian values. The book titled Myth of ‘Free Media’ and Fake News in the ...

Created on 20 September 2020

9. Media and Artists Join UN in Fighting COVID-19 Fake News

(Peace & Justice)

... Syndicate is among members of the SDG Media Compact, which is also contributing to combating fake news] Across the continent, artists and community activists are also joining the fight against misinformation. ...

Created on 17 August 2020

10. Media Outlets Focusing on Perspectives of Peace and Security in South Asia

(South Asia)

News briefs compiled by Suresh Jaura* TORONTO | NEW DELHI (IDN) – The focus of media outlets on South Asia in the month of July has been on the perspectives of peace and human security in a region marked ...

Created on 15 August 2020

11. Combating the Threat of Nuclear Weapons Needs 'Responsible' Medi

(OPINION)

... the mass media. The revolution underway in the means of mass communication is making the media the most direct source of information for the general public. Today it is expected to play an important role ...

Created on 26 June 2020

12. The Media Can Stimulate Sustainable Development in Africa

(OPINION)

... clamour for reforms in policing. This act of filming validates the force of the media globally; we need a similar drive for urgent action in Africa. We need the continent’s media to help ensure the ...

Created on 26 June 2020

13. Leaders and Media Respond to Police Killing of Shackled Black Man

(USA and Canada)

... action. [Watch the video of the Minneapolis chocking an unarmed George Floyd.] Mike Hammer, U.S. ambassador to the Congo, received a tweet from a local media entrepreneur who wrote: "Dear ambassador, ...

Created on 01 June 2020

14. Why Russia Is Slow to Unlock Media Potential with Africa

(Russia)

Viewpoint by Kester Kenn Klomegah MOSCOW (IDN) – Researchers and experts have identified a lack of interest and a well-coordinated mechanism as being behind the absence of effective Russian media cooperation ...

Created on 01 May 2020

15. Singapore's Fight Against the Coronavirus on Social Medi

(OPINION)

... is a lack of responsibility to act against online malice and to use social media effectively in the battle to reduce mass panic. Measures taken by the Singapore government to use social media to ease concerns ...

Created on 09 March 2020

16. US Penalizes Chinese Media While Beijing Expels American Correspondents

(USA and Canada)

... protesters in Hong Kong – have been further escalated by a decision to designate five Chinese state-run media organizations as "foreign missions". The U.S. decision announced February 18, to single ...

Created on 02 March 2020

17. African Media Recall Disturbing Remarks by New British Leader

(Africa)

By Lisa Vives, Global Information Network NEW YORK (IDN) – African media greeted the new British Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, by recalling some of particularly cringe-worthy remarks made during his ...

Created on 24 July 2019

18. Myanmar Buddhists Say International Media Is 'Unfair

(Asia-Pacific)

... of my stay, I met Buddhists working in the media, scholars at the university and some working directly with the government to find out the media needs of the Buddhist community in Myanmar. The overwhelming ...

Created on 09 January 2019

19. UK's May Should Announce a New Referendum Immediatel

(OPINION)

... the right wing media (but not the BBC) and perhaps most of the public have only begun to realize this recently. Why? Because of the issue of Northern Ireland which is part of the UK, which they have down ...

Created on 11 December 2018

20. The 'CRISIS' In Sri Lanka – Invented by the Western Medi

(Asia-Pacific)

... unceremonious sacking of Prime Minister Ranil Wickremasingha by President Maithripala Sirisena, has given rise to a crescendo of alarmist commentary in the Western media, which is slowly seeping in to ...

Created on 06 November 2018

21. Mozambique Imposing Hefty Fees on Local and Foreign Media

(Africa)

...  "We really fear the country could become a kind of foreign media desert," Froger warned. Under the new fee schedule, local correspondents will pay $2,500 for media accreditation while foreign correspondents ...

Created on 21 August 2018

22. The Media Is Misleading On Trump's Remarks in Helsink

(OPINION)

... of Helsinki summit. President Donald Trump has even been accused of treason by prominent columnists and politicians. There’s barely a voice of dissent in the media. (Maybe it's written but not published.) ...

Created on 24 July 2018

23. Experts Debate Digital Media's Role in Tackling Global Inequalitie

(Reduced Inequalities)

By Kalinga Seneviratne BONN (IDN) – 'Global Inequalities' was the theme of this year's Global Media Forum (GMF) hosted by the German public international broadcaster Deutsche Welle, and much discussion ...

Created on 14 June 2018

24. Independent Media and Civil Society Under Assault

(Poverty)

... and failures of efforts targeting a scourge that eats into the vitals of human rights. – The Editor. LONDON (IDN) – Civil society organisations (CSOs) and independent media play a vital role in anti-corruption ...

Created on 01 March 2018

25. UN Chief Warns Against 'vaccinationalism' As 2 Million Die of COVID-19 Pandemi

(Health & Well Being)

... have lab facilities or enough trained health workers to carry out PCR tests," WHO Director-General said at a media briefing, adding that it would be "a vital addition2 to countries’ testing capacity and ...

Created on 17 January 2021

26. Behind January 6 Insurrection: America Is an Oligarchy, Not A Functioning Democracy

(OPINION)

Viewpoint by Albena Azmanova and Marshall Auerback * This article was produced by Economy for All, a project of the Independent Media Institute. NEW YORK | BRUSSELS (IDN) – While the majority of Americans ...

Created on 17 January 2021

27. High Atlas Foundation Grows Trees in Nurseries Built on Moroccan Jewish Community Land

(Africa)

... Moroccans to come, said HAF in a media release. HAF's first interfaith nursery began as a pilot program in 2014. Located in Akrich, a village in the Al Haouz province south of Marrakech, the nursery ...

Created on 16 January 2021

28. 'Fine Words Butter No Parsnips' — Behind Boris Johnson’s So-Called Liberalis

(OPINION)

Viewpoint by Sam Fowles* LONDON (IDN) – The UK has left the EU and plunged into a third lockdown (the latter some two weeks after doing so was recommended by the government’s medical advisers), while, ...

Created on 15 January 2021

29. Things Bode Increasingly Ill for the Horn

(Horn of Africa)

... to understand potential impacts of events (or perceptions of these) on the situation. Check all information against updates and other media. EEPA does not take responsibility for the use of the information ...

Created on 15 January 2021

30. Landmark World Social Forum Meets Virtually

(Global Partnerships)

... questions or to clarify any of the above-mentioned elements to the media from around the world: Email: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. [IDN-InDepthNews – 14 January 2021] Image credit: World Social Forum IDN ...

Created on 14 January 2021

31. The Politicisation of “White Victimhood” Nothing New to Trump’s Presidency

(OPINION)

Viewpoint by Lee Bebout* TEMPE, Arizona (IDN) – Despite failed lawsuits, recounts and formal confirmation that President-elect Joe Biden won the 2020 presidential election, President Donald Trump and ...

Created on 14 January 2021

32. How Will Africa Remember Donald Trump? Here Is How.

(OPINION)

... the right hand and took it back almost immediately with a vulgar left hand when he called his guest, Nigeria’s President Muhammadu Buhari, “lifeless”. Not long after he insulted Buhari, Trump put his ...

Created on 14 January 2021

33. As A Tigrayan, My Bond with Ethiopia Feels Beyond Repair

(OPINION)

... media provided the script for making sense of the world. I was taught to see the conflict in black and white, with good Ethiopian patriots on one side and the hateful rebels on the other. I memorised ...

Created on 13 January 2021

34. Whither the G20 in a World of Declining Multilateralism: Part 1

(OPINION)

... all Americans. On the contrary, he tried immediately to divide and polarise the United States, and he leaves as a legacy a US that will take a very long time to return to being a united and pacified country. ...

Created on 13 January 2021

35. 75 Years On The First UN General Assembly Resolution

(Nuclear Weapons)

... case until 1949 when the Soviet Union successfully tested its first nuclear explosive device.[1] The unravelling of the uneasy wartime alliance between the USA and the USSR had begun immediately after ...

Created on 12 January 2021

36. Corruption Trials in Algeria – No More Facebook for Museveni – Nobel Laureate Denounces Rise of Armed Groups

(Africa)

By Lisa Vives, Global Information Network NEW YORK (IDN) – While corruption trials continue for Algerian officials ousted in nation’s ‘Arab Spring’ 2010-2012, on the eve of elections, social media leader ...

Created on 11 January 2021

37. The Assault on the Citadel of US Democracy

(OPINION)

... Pelosi said that Democrats hope “the President will immediately resign". But if he does not, “the House will preserve every option – including the 25th Amendment, a motion to impeach or a privileged resolution ...

Created on 11 January 2021

38. Fierce Fighting Blocks the UN Access to Refugee Camps

(Horn of Africa)

... them behind the frontlines with drones and we don’t know who is dead and alive”, said the General. It  has been reported in social media that deputy commander of ENDF 33th division was killed while fighting ...

Created on 10 January 2021

39. Capitol Hill Insurrection Demonstrates What the US Does Abroad

(OPINION)

... isn’t who we are’, in fact, this is consistent with a lot of deep traditions of the U.S. rulers” argued American investigative journalist Allan Nairn, in an interview on the popular US social media channel ...

Created on 09 January 2021

40. The AU Peace Process to Solve the Conflict in Tigray Alleged to Have Been Undermined

(Horn of Africa)

... bilateral ties and regional security. The Eritreans reportedly offered to mediate the conflict between Ethiopia and Sudan. Sudan rejected the offer. One of the leading African Constitutional and Human ...

Created on 08 January 2021

41. Is China Seeking to Remake the World in Its Own Image?

(OPINION)

... 1898: "Remember the Maine! And Don't Forget the Starving Cubans!" Source: Wikimedia Commons IDN is flagship agency of the Non-profit International Press Syndicate. Visit us on Facebook and Twitter.  ...

Created on 08 January 2021

42. What Is the U.S. Afraid of China Actually Doing?

(OPINION)

... growth on the part of China. Instead, the cause was the success of American policy priorities. If there is a problem, it is most immediately that those priorities were misguided. The U.S. has the right ...

Created on 07 January 2021

43. Uncertainty Stalks Ethiopia, the Tigray Region and the Horn of Africa

(Horn of Africa)

... Carter, corroborates this and says that Ethiopia is also pushing Sudan for immediate repatriation of civilians that managed to get to Sudan. The Ethiopian minister of foreign affairs' spokesman has said ...

Created on 07 January 2021

44. The Nuclear Weapon States Urged to Advance Disarmament

(Nuclear Weapons)

... a real and current danger exists of “a potential nuclear arms race” that would adversely impact the global security landscape. In early 2019 the US left the 1987 Intermediate-Range Nuclear Forces Treaty. ...

Created on 06 January 2021

45. Ocean Threatened by Loss of Coral Reefs

(OPINION)

... a project of the Independent Media Institute. He is the chief editor of LeftWord Books and the director of Tricontinental: Institute for Social Research. He is a senior non-resident fellow at Chongyang ...

Created on 05 January 2021

46. UN Concerned Over the Situation of Refugees from Tigray

(Horn of Africa)

...  The UNHCR has stated that it needs 156 million US$ to meet immediate needs of refugees in Ethiopia, but only US$ 40 million has been pledged.  The United Nations says that access to Tigray has improved ...

Created on 05 January 2021

47. Food Insecurity and Drought Threaten Ethiopia as Armed Forces Withdraw from Rural Areas in Tigray

(Horn of Africa)

... against updates and other media. EEPA does not take responsibility for the use of the information or impact thereof. All information reported originates from third parties and the content of all reported ...

Created on 04 January 2021

48. Unease as UN Peace Mission in Sudan Ends and Ethiopian Soldiers Return Home

(Horn of Africa)

... should leave Ethiopian soil immediately. They condemn the Sudanese "aggression" and the destruction of property, looting and killings of Sudanese forces in the disputed region.  EBAC warns that unlike ...

Created on 03 January 2021

49. Things Getting Complicated for Ethiopia

(Horn of Africa)

... other media. EEPA does not take responsibility for the use of the information or impact thereof. All information reported originates from third parties and the content of all reported and linked information ...

Created on 02 January 2021

50. An Overview of the Situation in Tigray as 2021 Begins

(Horn of Africa)

... pre-emptive strike due to preparations for an immediate attack by the federal government. PM Abiy called it a law-and-order operation with the aim to restore his authority over the region. PM Abiy installed ...

Created on 01 January 2021

51. EEPA Report on the Horn of Africa Situation December 31

(Horn of Africa)

... all information against updates and other media. EEPA does not take responsibility for the use of the information or impact thereof. All information reported originates from third parties and the content ...

Created on 31 December 2020

52. Science Has Delivered the Vaccines, The WTO Should Make Them Accessible and Affordable

(OPINION)

... emptied by those who had access to masks, PPEs, sanitizers, gloves and other essential Covid-19 items even without their immediate need. The same should not happen to vaccines. Eventually, the world was ...

Created on 30 December 2020

53. Encourage USA To Compromise with Russia, Iran, China and The Islamic World

(OPINION)

... he was selling out. They had easy access to the media which, with a couple of exceptions, was firmly anti-Soviet. Step by step the two leaders developed an important degree of mutual trust, made partly ...

Created on 30 December 2020

54. EEPA Report on the Horn of Africa Situation December 30

(Horn of Africa)

... extreme concern “by continuing reports of intimidation of journalists in Ethiopia. U.S. resolve to see media freedom respected remains unshaken.” These comments come following the arrest of a Reuters cameraman. ...

Created on 30 December 2020

55. EEPA Report on the Horn of Africa Situation December 29

(Horn of Africa)

... in Nebelet, a town near Adwa, Tigray, Eritrean troops killed 54 civilians. Unconfirmed report on social media that some Ethiopian National Defence Forces (ENDF) in Mekelle are disguised in Tigray TPLF ...

Created on 29 December 2020

56. Media Compact

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Media Compact

Created on 23 March 2016

57. Multimedia

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Multimedia

Created on 01 February 2016

58. News Media

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News Media

Created on 04 January 2016