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Free Press index launched
DATELINE: 26/4/06
Thanks are due to Professor Bob Hackett of the School of Communication at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver, Professor William Carroll of the University of Victoria in Canada and students Pablo Bose and Adam Schachhuber who have created a 35,000 word index of the first 110 issues of Free Press, the CPBF's newsletter. You can download the index on this site.
The index includes every issue of Free Press from the first in 1980 to the issue dated June 1999. "Free Press is a very impressive political and research resource," observes Prof. Hackett, co-author with Prof. Carroll of Remaking Media: The struggle to democratize public communication (London: Routledge 2006).
The index took several weeks to compile, with financial assistance from Social Sciences & Humanities Research Council of Canada, but is made freely available to researchers and others. If you wish to circulate the index or refer to it in any context, please acknowledge its source. Details are included at the top of the file.
LINKSBob Hackett's web page
Freepress index (Word - 0.5mb)
Freepress index (PDF - 0.5mb)
Last modified: Wednesday, April 26, 2006
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World Press Freedom Day
More reporters are currently imprisoned in Turkey than in any other country in the world. Only a matter of weeks ago lawyers failed to persuade a Turkish court to release a 76-year-old journalist from a Turkish internet news station.
World Press Freedom Day on Friday May 3, 2013 is being marked in Britain by a rally to highlight the dangers facing journalists in Turkey and in this podcast, Nicholas Jones speaks to Barry White, Organiser at the Campaign for Press and Broadcasting Freedom, and Sam Bamford, the TUC's policy officer for Eastern Europe and Africa about the importance of a campaign to highlight international press freedom.
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DATELINE: 27/4/13
UK launch of EU media campaign
DATELINE: 13/3/13
The UK launch of a 'European Citizens' Initiative' calling for EU rules against concentration of media power will take place on Thursday March 21 from 11:00am – 12:30pm in Committee Room 4A at the House of Lords, London. Guest speakers will include actor and activist Hugh Grant (pictured), media consultant Claire Enders, Professor Steven Barnett, Barry McCall (President of the NUJ) and Marc Gruber (Director of the European Federation of Journalists).
A European Citizens' Initiative is an official petition, like a Downing Street petition. If it succeeds in gathering a million signatures across the EU, the Commission is obliged to respond.
This petition calls for the EU to act to protect media pluralism and press freedom.
CPBF Annual General Meeting
DATELINE: 1/3/13
Make a note in your diary
Saturday 13 July 2013 from 10.00am
NUJ HQ, 308/312 Gray's Inn Road, London WC1.
Leveson, media ownership, CPBF future work.
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DATELINE: 26/3/10
Download Freepress in PDF, ePub or mobi format. Issue 194 now available.
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