The committee's report also seeks to address media concerns that the operation of libel laws is stifling press freedom, and considers the balance between personal privacy and press freedom.
The event, held jointly by the UK National Commission for UNESCO and the Press Freedom Network, brings together journalists, media professionals and distinguished press freedom experts from the UK and abroad.
It is furthermore clear today that building a culture to support press freedom is generally a lengthy process, while what has been won for press freedom can also be lost in a matter of months when negative forces gain control of a country.
Each year the UK World Press Freedom Day Student Journalism Competition is co-hosted by the UK National Commission for UNESCO and the Press Freedom Network.
During his fourteen years in power he changed Venezuela from a poor country with democratic institutions, a rule of law and freedom of the press to an even poorer country with a quasi-dictatorship, no rule of law and no freedom of the press.
Panelists at the event centered their main discussion points on the issues and challenges pertaining to freedom of expression and press freedom in Pakistan.
There's degrees and there's got to be a halfway house between freedom of the press and freedom of speech, and the right to a person's private life and privacy.
To advance these lofty goals, the WPFD has been commemorated worldwide by many stakeholders each year on 3 May, and has emerged as an effective way to raise awareness of the importance of freedom of expression and press freedom.
This audio file provides a short description of the Windhoek Declaration on Promoting an independent and pluralistic African Press and the values which it enshrines namely: freedom of expression, independent and pluralistic media and press freedom.
Taylor didn't seem to grasp the fact that, for better or worse, freedom of the press also includes freedom to fail.
Free speech, freedom of the press, and freedom of religion are rights.
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The Qatari government set up the Doha Centre for Media Freedom in 2008 to promote press freedom and quality journalism, and is home to the pan-Arab satellite TV network al-Jazeera.
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French Prime Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault expressed his support for the freedom of press, but he said there are limits.
All this, note, to determine nothing less important than the balance between ensuring redress for victims of press intrusion and the freedom of the press, a judgement of such sensitivity that it would stretch Solomon, let alone our band of sleepy policymakers and campaigners.
But the mature thing to do would be to explain to the British public that press freedom is itself the best guarantor of press transparency.
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Turkey ranks 138th in the international media freedom group Reporters Sans Frontieres country index on press freedom.
What about the Justice Department's decision to cast aside decades-old traditions governing press freedom in order to monitor the communications of Associated Press reporters and editors?
Freedom of Information: The Right to Know, was the theme of the 2010 celebration of World Press Freedom Day, held in Brisbane, Australia.
The Award Ceremony for the 2010 UNESCO World Press Freedom Prize will be held on 3 May.
Mr Farrelly's question was on the effects of injunctions on whistleblowers and press freedom in general.
The month before, an Azerbaijani journalist, Eynulla Fatullayev, had been awarded UNESCO's World Press Freedom Prize.
But where there is freedom of the press there is also responsibility to ensure fair reporting.
Press Freedom Day spawns countless events -- vigils, rallies and debates --in countries around the world.
The occasion marked World Press Freedom Day, which is celebrated internationally on May 3rd every year.
NPR's Ari Shapiro reports on what this means for the freedom of the press.
On this board, Kaufman worked to expand the freedom of the press around the world.
National media organizations have staunchly opposed the proposal, saying it would limit freedom of the press.
People with enough money can buy anonymity through court injunctions that limit press freedom.
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In 1797, John Wilkes, the English politician and champion of freedom of the press, died.
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