Media Conference Explores Continued Challenges to Burma's Press Freedom

Edit Topix 08 Nov 2016
At the fifth media development conference in Rangoon on Monday, experts criticized the National League for Democracy government over restricted access to information for independent media houses and continued market domination of state-run publications-the main competitors for private newspapers....

Lowell Goddard: Home Office failed to defend me over racism claims

Edit The Guardian 08 Nov 2016
Former chair of UK child abuse inquiry says she was ‘disappointed’ the government did not speak out against media attacks ... The former chair of the independent inquiry into child sexual abuse has accused the British government of failing to defend her when she was accused in the press of racism ... against “malicious defamatory attacks in some UK media”....

Make Google and Facebook pay for public service reporting

Edit The Guardian 08 Nov 2016
The Media Reform Coalition and National Union of Journalists are hoping to make Google and Facebook fund public service reporting in Britain ... “We believe it is time for policymakers to address the emergent gaps in the supply of diverse media and to secure the trusted and independent news system that our democracy so desperately needs....

Dick Harmon: If BYU''s Tom Holmoe had a Q&A; instead of a video post Big ...

Edit Deseret News 08 Nov 2016
He provided the right spin to Cougar life as a football independent ... Like clockwork, Holmoe has made himself available to the media in an annual or semi-annual summit meeting of sorts and there’s likely one coming down the pike in early 2017 if not during the bowl season ... Many members of the media also requested he share his thoughts on the issue....

Glen Hansard to receive first Brendan Behan award

Edit Belfast Telegraph 08 Nov 2016
Independent.ie ... http.//www.independent.ie/entertainment/music/music-news/glen-hansard-to-receive-first-brendan-behan-award-35197216.html. http.//www.independent.ie/irish-news/article34595961.ece/8123b/AUTOCROP/h342/2016-04-04_iri_19370723_I1.JPG ... acknowledge those who have demonstrated excell- ence in the arts, culture and the media....

Under the Shadow nominated for six British Independent Film Awards (University of Westminster)

Edit Public Technologies 08 Nov 2016
Babak Anvari, Under the Shadow's writer and director and Kit Fraser, cinematographer on the film studied together at the Westminster School of Media, Arts and Design. Under the Shadow has received six nominations from the British Independent Film Awards (BIFA) including Best Feature and Best Director ... independent filmmaking and filmmakers in the UK....

Rwanda: Journalists Challenged on Upholding Media Principles

Edit Topix 08 Nov 2016
Media practitioners have called for more emphasis on principles of independence, fairness and accountability as prime kits to tell the African story through the African media. Driven by the concept of 'Africa that we want' motto through the 'Africa Media that we want' mantra, the call was made when journalists gathered in Kigali, yesterday, for the ......

Red market stores will be converted to AD and Proxy Delhaize brands (Ahold Delhaize NV)

Edit Public Technologies 08 Nov 2016
These stores will be transformed into independent AD and Proxy Delhaize stores. Red Market currently employs 254 associates who will transfer to the independent AD and Proxy Delhaize owners ... As the 13 store locations have great commercial potential, the intention is to keep operating these stores as independent AD and Proxy Delhaize stores....

MEDIA ADVISORY: AISD Superintendent to provide an update on T.A. Brown Elementary School transition (Austin Independent School District Inc)

Edit Public Technologies 08 Nov 2016
(Source. Austin Independent School District Inc) ... Who. Superintendent Paul Cruz will be available to respond to media questions ... ###. Austin Independent School District Inc ... Original documenthttps.//www.austinisd.org/articles/media-advisory-aisd-superintendent-provide-update-ta-brown-elementary-school-transition....

Trump’s candidacy should have been stillborn

Edit Jamaica Observer 08 Nov 2016
hundred and forty years ago, 13 New England colonies on the American mainland declared themselves as independent of Great Britain as they escalated their protests against against “British taxation without representation” ... When one adds to that scenario the powerful ability of the media, especially television’s capacity to shape the thinking of a not too well-educated population, the current result is what is obtains....

This Irish beauty blogger revealed her post baby body in a series of honest pictures

Edit Belfast Telegraph 08 Nov 2016
Independent.ie ... http.//www.independent.ie/style/beauty/body/this-irish-beauty-blogger-revealed-her-post-baby-body-in-a-series-of-honest-pictures-35198076.html. http.//www.independent.ie/incoming/article34940804.ece/85c84/AUTOCROP/h342/mcdonagh_160804_0038.jpg ... The 28-year-old, who is better known as Faces by Grace on her social media channels, ......

Lowell Goddard branded 'disgraceful' for refusing to appear before MPs

Edit Belfast Telegraph 08 Nov 2016
Dame Lowell Goddard, the former head of the independent inquiry into child sexual abuse (IICSA), has been accused of "disgraceful" conduct after refusing to appear before a committee of MPs ... "As a high court judge in New Zealand for many years before I resigned to take up the chair of the IICSA, I have a duty to maintain judicial independence," she wrote....

EU Should Worry Over Rule of Law in Hungary, Germany’s Roth Says

Edit Bloomberg 08 Nov 2016
The 28-member bloc has “reason to be concerned about how the government handles the rule of law, the separation of powers of checks and balances and the independence and freedom of the media” in Hungary, Roth said in a speech at Central European University in Budapest on Tuesday ... The EU has failed to convince Poland’s government to scrap new rules that it says undermine the independence of the Constitutional Court....
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