Despite the promise of new information technologies, governments, non-state actors, and corporations worldwide are ‘censoring vast amounts of information’ using complex and sophisticated tactics. The 2017 edition of Attacks on the Press, published on Tuesday by The Committee to Protect…
Dhaka – Housing and Public Works Minister Eng Mosharraf Hossain on Sunday said Chittagong will see a drastic change within the next 5-10 years following the massive development initiatives, including the establishment of two special economic zones. UNB news agency…
by Simon Wren-Lewis A few days ago I took part in a Royal Economic Conference session on the implications of the Brexit vote. There is no need for me to describe how it went, as there is a good write…
Dhaka – To celebrate the launch of the revised EU Guidelines on the Promotion and Protection of the Rights of the Child, the European External Action Service is partnering with Plan International to organise a global youth takeover of EU…
Hong Kong, China – Media OutReach – April 18, 2017 – The Society of Publishers in Asia (SOPA), a Hong Kong-based not-for-profit organization, today announced that it has received more than 750 entries in English and Chinese for the SOPA…
Mymensingh – Journalists of different dailies working on Bangladesh Agricultural University wear black badges in front of TSC to protest the attack on SUST journalists.
Rajshahi – Demanding punishment of BCL activists over attack on two Journalists of Shahjalal University of Science and Technology (SUST), the reporters of Rajshahi University (RU) formed a human chain in front of central library of the university at 12:00…
London – US first lady Melania Trump has accepted an apology and damages from the publisher of the Daily Mail newspaper for reporting rumors about her time as a model, the two parties in the lawsuit said Wednesday. Trump sued…
Dhaka, Apr 11 – Veteran journalist Hussain-uz-Zaman, former Managing Director and Chief Editor of Bangladesh Sangbad Sanstha (BSS), passed away at city’s Anwar Khan Modern Hospital early Tuesday due to respiratory and cardiovascular complications. He was 83.
Political discourse around the world tends to be driven by sober media stalwarts like the Washington Post, the Times of London, or Germany’s Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung. In France, the star of the show is an eight-page weekly that features excruciating…
State Minister for Posts and Telecommunications Tarana Halim on Tuesday said Facebook will not be blocked for any particular period of the day or night. “We want to say clearly the Facebook won’t be blocked for any hour of the…
The government has neither taken any decision nor given any directive to block social networking site Facebook after midnight, said Posts and Telecommunications Division secretary Shyam Sunder Sikder. “It won’t be wise to block Facebook now as it’s not only…
A news ‘Brac signs MoU with a2i to provide technical training to youth’ has drawn my attention along with many others. To develop a county rapidly, training of youth is really important.
In 2014, traces of an unusual survey, connected to Facebook, began appearing on internet message boards. The boards were frequented by remote freelance workers who bid on “human intelligence tasks” in an online marketplace, called Mechanical Turk, controlled by Amazon.…
The Thailand media regulator’s decision to suspend a television station’s broadcasts for seven days is blatant censorship that further undermines media freedoms and reinforces military dictatorship, Human Rights Watch said today. On March 27, 2017, Lt. Gen. Peerapong Manakit of…
President Donald Trump’s latest Twitter rant about the New York Times’ coverage of his presidency saw him muse that it might be time to “change libel laws.” The implicit threat here may well be an empty one. But that doesn’t…
Dhaka – A Dhaka court has sentenced five to death for the murder of photojournalist Aftab Ahmed during a robbery in Dhaka’s Rampura.
By A. D. McKenzie Paris, Mar 24 (IPS) – With widespread attacks on professional journalists and the rise of a fake-news industry, media experts agree that journalism is increasingly under fire. But how can the press fight back and ensure…
Rajshahi – A day-long workshop on “Campus Journalism”, organized by Rajshahi University Press Club (RUPC), was held at the Deans’ complex of the university on Saturday.
Tatton MP George Osborne has been named editor of the London Evening Standard. The former chancellor will take over from Sarah Sands – but says he will stay on as MP. The newspaper’s owner Evgeny Lebedev made the surprise announcement…
How everyone can address such threats, help protect activists Peter Bouckaert Over the past week, two human rights colleagues of mine received rape and death threats over social media. One, who works with refugees, was sent a Facebook message saying,…
The BBC Academy has launched a free resource dedicated to journalism and language use in Bangla. The mobile-first design of the BBC Academy Bangla site (in its first iteration) focuses on BBC’s core journalistic practice including editorial values, use of…
Leaked emails reveal Nigel Farage, who led the push for Brexit and now serves as an “unofficial adviser” to President Donald Trump, has longstanding ties to WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange. Farage visited the Ecuadorian embassy Thursday where Assange has sought…
Dhaka – State Minister for Posts and Telecommunications Tarana Halim at the two-day international workshop on cyber crimes titled “Digital Bangladesh: Focusing on Cybercrime, Safe Internet and Broadband” said that the government is planning on sitting with the social networking…
British journalists could be treated as spies, and given up to 14 years in prison for handling state secrets, if proposals by the UK’s Law Commission become law. In 2015, the Commission, whose remit is to review and recommend reforms…
Lip service to the crucial function of the Fourth Estate is not enough to sustain it. It’s not that Mark Zuckerberg set out to dismantle the news business when he founded Facebook 13 years ago. Yet news organizations are perhaps…
New York, Feb 17 (AP/UNB)- Mark Zuckerberg’s long-term vision for Facebook, laid out in a sweeping manifesto , sometimes sounds more like a utopian social guide than a business plan. Are we, he asks, “building the world we all want?”
Playboy magazine has announced it is bringing back nudity, reversing a decision made last year. The move was announced by Playboy’s new chief creative officer Cooper Hefner, who said the decision to remove nudity entirely “was a mistake”. “Today we’re…
Dhaka – Leaders of journalists unions and the Dhaka Reporters’ Unity have decided to launch fresh movement to press their demand for arrest of the killers of journalist couple Sagar Sarowar and Meherun Nahar Runi to bring them to justice.
A court here on Wednesday asked the investigation officer of journalist couple Sagar-Runi murder case to submit a progress report before it on March 21. Metropolitan Magistrate Mazharul Islam passed the order as IO of the case assistant police super…