World Press Freedom Day: Freedom of expression, access, and empowerment.
These basics, together with the highest moral standards, serve as the underlying means of communications on which freedom of expression can succeed. It is on this fundamental that media serves as an overseer for information received by the public. The energy that drives this means is information and therefore...

Thomas Jefferson: Flawed human who left an exceptional legacy.
Byline: Albert B. Southwick COLUMN: Albert B. Southwick Now that the election is over, the media - print and visual - are trying to recover from their campaign wounds. During that longest-ever campaign, newspapers and television commentators were assailed from both sides for...

IRAN - Oct 12 - Iran Reformist To Run In 2009.
The leader of Iran's reformist National Confidence party Mehdi Karroubi, announces he will run in next year's presidential race, the first Iranian politician to declare his candidacy to succeed Mahmoud Ahmadi-Nejad. "After many consultations I have conducted, and knowing the difficulties that comes with standing (as candidate), I announce...

Del Martin, cofounder of the DOB, dies at 87.
DEL MARTIN, whose name was inextricably tied to that of her life partner, Phyllis Lyon, for 55 years, died on August 27 in San Francisco at the age of 87, after several years of declining health. The couple was married in San Francisco in early 2008, the first couple...

The 2008 World Press Freedom Day.
World Press Freedom Day was proclaimed by the UN General Assembly in 1993, following the recommendation of UNESCO. The latter spearheaded the holding of a panel discussion on the theme, Access to Information and Empowerment of People where an overview of the global state of access to information was...

Miriam raises constitutional issues in Senate media bill.
The first is that the Constitution provides that no law shall be passed abridging freedom of the press. Giving anyone the right of reply in effect results in prior restraint on free expression, a violation of press freedom, the senator pointed out. It may also...

Culture and communication.
Dr. Susanne Ornager, regional adviser for Communication and Information also of Unesco, was instrumental in mobilizing activities organized around the Asia-Pacific Network on Information (APIN) and the Memory of the World Programme (MOW). Can you imagine a world which does not have memory, asks Susanne, as she rationalized emphasis...

Who Speaks for Islam? What a Billion Muslims Really Think.
Who Speaks for Islam? What a Billion Muslims Really Think. By John L. Esposito and Dalia Mogahed. Gallup Press, 230 pp., $22.95. Is it ever justifiable to intentionally target innocent civilians in order to achieve political or military ends? Eighty, 81 and 86...

Civil society committed to democratic transition.
"We, civil society organisations acting on behalf of the people of Zimbabwe, today reassert our commitment to the struggle for a transition to democracy. In doing so, we stand firmly by the principles of democratic constitutionalism that are embodied in the People's Charter and which represent the birthright of...

Mrs. Burgos still hopeful to see her son Jonas alive.
Although disappointed that the Court of Appeals (CA) denied her habeas corpus petition, Mrs. Edita Burgos said the ruling should not stop her to look for her son, who has been missing since April 28 last year. "We are more determined than ever to look for Jonas,"...