Month: July 2008

  • links for 2008-07-01

    UAE set to exclude prison for journalists | Middle East Online A draft press law adopted by a ministerial committee in the United Arab Emirates excludes jail terms for journalists found guilty of defamation or other media offences (tags: middle-east uae journalism journalists law) ‘Reduce sponsorship of public broadcasting’ The report…also proposes that Sweden’s three…

  • Zimbabwe: War reporting vs. travel writing

    Whilst journalists like the Guardian‘s Chris McGreal were reporting from inside Zimbabwe in June (Zimbabwe’s voters told: choose Mugabe or you face a bullet), others were getting a more – well – ‘considered’ view.