Online Journalism China: There’s an expanding array of tools to supply uncensored news - but how many are prepared to listen?
Posted on April 15, 2008 - Filed Under Censorship, Online Journalism China, Skype, China, blogs, Politics, Citizen journalism, online communities, Online Journalism | Leave a Comment
To add to our burgeoning hoard of international bloggers, Journalism.co.uk has recruited China Daily’s Dave Green to write about online journalism in China.
I recently fell into conversation with a Beijing taxi driver regarding his opinion on the situation in Tibet. His view was that he really had no idea who to believe, as he felt […]
Chinese officials told to influence online news coverage of games, says RSF
Posted on March 31, 2008 - Filed Under Olympics, Censorship, China, Online Journalism | Leave a Comment
Chinese government officials have been told to ‘orientate online opinion’ in the build up to and during this year’s Olympic Games in Beijing, press freedom campaign group Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has said.
According to RSF a confidential memo seen by the group ‘confirms that the authorities have an active policy towards online information content’.
In the […]
BBC Technology: BBC website ‘unblocked in China’
Posted on March 25, 2008 - Filed Under Editors' pick, Censorship, China, BBC | Leave a Comment
BBC Technology reports that after years of strict control by the Beijing government, stories from the BBC News website are available in full.
The corporation’s staff in China are reporting that for the first time The Great Firewall of China - the technology used by the Chinese authorities to prevent access to sites it deems unacceptable - is allowing access to news stories that were previously blocked.
Read More..>> Full story...Rusbridger attacks Chinese ‘censorship’ as Tibetan riots quelled
Posted on March 18, 2008 - Filed Under Censorship, guardian, Olympics, Telegraph, China, Online Journalism, blogs, Journalism | Leave a Comment
Guardian editor Alan Rusbridger has written to the Chinese ambassador in the UK attacking China’s censoring of foreign news websites - including Guardian.co.uk - in the wake of the Tibetan riots.
Mr Rusbridger asked for the ambassador’s assistance in unblocking his website back online and ensuring that access to it remained free of interference.
“As you will […]
IOC blogging guidelines - ‘Blogging form of personal expression, not journalism’
Posted on March 7, 2008 - Filed Under sport, Olympics, Censorship, China, Citizen journalism, blogs, Online Journalism | Leave a Comment
The International Olympic Committee (IOC) has had the definitive word on what a blog actually is by publishing its blogging guidelines for the upcoming Beijing Games (apologies for the late reference to these guidelines - they were first published some time ago).
“The IOC considers blogging, in accordance with these Guidelines, as a legitimate form of
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Guardian: MPs get web filter ‘dark ages’ warning
Posted on February 26, 2008 - Filed Under Standards, Editors' pick, Censorship, Technology | Leave a Comment
A Microsoft executive has told MPs that forcing software companies to install high-security filters as standard on all computers would send the UK back to the ‘dark ages’, a piece on Guardian.co.uk has claimed.
Matt Lambert, head of corporate affairs at Microsoft, told a Culture Media and Sport Committee that setting content filters to a high security level as standard was unnecessary as too much content that was not of danger to children would be blocked.
He also told the committee that very few people used the in-built filtering functions supplied with Microsoft products.
Read More..>> Full story...BBC: Online news ‘threatens court cases’
Posted on February 21, 2008 - Filed Under google, legal, Editors' pick, Censorship, Publishing, blogs, Online Journalism | Leave a Comment
The former Lord Chancellor has told the BBC that news stories about the early stages of high-profile criminal investigations should be removed from online news archives when cases come to court so as not to prejudice trail outcomes.
Lord Falconer said that the Attorney General would have to be responsible for determining to which cases the rule should apply and stated that he thought it would only affect 20 or so high-profile cases each year.
News groups would have to remove stories from their archives written before an arrest was made and a case became active.
If they refused to comply “it would be very strong evidence they’d committed contempt”, he said.
Read More..>> Full story...News articles today on Journalism.co.uk
Posted on February 13, 2008 - Filed Under Podcast, Censorship, About us, Mobile, google, MoJo, Video, Newspapers, multimedia experiments, Technology, online communities, blogs, China, Online Journalism | Leave a Comment
NUJ to offer free legal support for members’ copyright actions
Deal with Thompsons Solicitors will allow members to pursue copyright infringements at no personal cost
Times Mobile appoints Brigid Callaghan as its new editor
Brigid Callaghan becomes editor of Times Mobile
Chinese digital news under attack in run-up to Olympics, says press freedoms report
Reporters Without Boarders report on press […]
Index on Censorship launches new website
Posted on January 24, 2008 - Filed Under Censorship, Online Journalism | Leave a Comment
The new website for the Index on Censorship aims to be the centre of news and analysis of freedom of speech issues around the world, according to a press release from the site.
The use of WordPress for the site acknowledges the importance of open-source software in the batle against censorship online, the release says.
Press Gazette: Mapping web censorship
Posted on January 14, 2008 - Filed Under Editors' pick, Censorship, social networks, Citizen journalism | Leave a Comment
A new online project launched by blogger and citizen journalist advocates Global Voices aims to highlight censorship of social networking websites around the world.
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