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Media Manipulation and the UN (Excerpt)
In 2004, the Baku-based Central Asian and Southern Caucasian Freedom of Expression Network (CASCFEN) received the Pioneer Award. This group most likely played a significant role in two NED-backed revolutions in both Georgia (2003) and in Kyrgyzstan (2005). In both cases the ‘independent’ media played a crucial role in the success of the revolutions. The [...]
Freedom of the Media Revisited at Vienna Meeting
By Chadwick R. Gore, Staff Advisor The Supplementary Human Dimension Meeting on Freedom of the Media: Protection of Journalists and Access to Information was held July 13 and 14 in Vienna, Austria. The meeting was sponsored by OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media Miklós Haraszti and supported by the Director of the OSCE Office [...]
Yanki's trip to Baku
Dear friends. On a short term I decided to go to Baku from June 18 till June 21 for talks related to our planned election observation mission. Elnur Sadiqli’s help was very fruitful. So I was able to meet many people although I decided on the last minute to go to Baku. Members of Yeni [...]
Azerbaijan against planned joint radio project with Armenia
The Azerbaijani newspaper Ekho reports that radio journalists from Xankandi (Stepanakert) will be engaged in a joint Armenian-Azerbaijani project. The non-governmental organization Conciliation Resources has joined a consortium which has drawn up a project financed by the British government and numerous international funds to assist in finding a solution to the Nagornyy Karabakh conflict and [...]
Media Freedom Group Assembles in Azerbaijan
Baku — More than 50 participants from almost every continent on the globe gathered for the 11th General Assembly of International Freedom of Expression Exchange (IFEX), which has been being held at Crescent Beach since last Sunday. Azer Hasret, head of Azerbaijan’s Journalists’ Trade Union, which hosted the conference, said that the congress is the [...]
Death of a War Correspondent. A Modern Media Institute Case Study
The world of Polish journalism roiled in early May over the publication of very graphic photographs of the death of war correspondent Waldemar Milewicz in two Polish dailies, the tabloid Super Express in its Saturday, May 8, [2004] editions. Milewicz, a reporter for Polish State Television, along with production assistant Mounir Bouamrane, were killed by [...]
IPI Free Media Pioneer
Central Asian and Southern Caucasian Freedom of Expression Network (CASCFEN), Baku Launched in August 2001, the Baku-based network was created by media organisations from Azerbaijan, Georgia, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan and Uzbekistan in order to share information and better coordinate their press freedom activities. Its declared aim is to “protect freedom of expression and of the press [...]
CASCFEN site temporarily shuts down; hackers blamed
Attacks from computer hackers have forced the Central Asian and Southern Caucasian Freedom of Expression Network (CASCFEN) to shut down its Web site only days after the group received an international award for its work in promoting free speech. The Vienna-based International Press Institute (IPI) announced on May 3 that it would award CASCFEN with [...]
Free Media Pioneer Award winner named
ON MONDAY, ‘World Press Freedom Day’, the International Press Institute (IPI) announced it has decided to honour the Central Asian and Southern Caucasian Freedom of Expression Network (CASCFEN) with its 2004 Free Media Pioneer Award. The award will be presented to Azer Hasret, chairman of CASCFEN, at a ceremony on 18 May during the upcoming [...]
Five round tables will be held during the III Eurasian Media Forum
A series of round tables will take place as a part of the upcoming III Eurasian Media Forum on 22-24 April in Almaty. The organizer of the sessions is the International Institute for Modern Politics (IIMP). IIMP press service says on the first day participants of the Forum will have session on Geopolitical Interests of [...]
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