ASA reports rise in ad complaints

by | Dec 1, 2009 | Media freedom

THE Advertising Standards Authority of SA has released research showing an increase in the number of complaints relating to print advertisements this year, writes Chantelle Benjamin in Business Day. Andrew Papadopoulos, trade mark associate at intellectual property...

Freelancers freed in Somalia after 15 months

by | Nov 27, 2009 | Media freedom

TWO freelance journalists, one from Canada and the other from Australia, are in a Nairobi hotel after being freed from Mogadishu where they have been in captivity for the last 15 months, writes Dennis Itumbi for journalism.co.za. The Canadian Embassy in Nairobi would...

Uganda station sacks presenters to appease govt

by | Nov 27, 2009 | Media freedom

SUUBI FM, one of the four Ugandan FM stations closed during the September riots in the central region (Buganda), has sacked four presenters in an attempt to persuade the government to reopen it, writes Dennis Itumbi for journalism.co.za. The public had been made to...

Opposition mounts to new Nigerian anti-media bill

by | Nov 19, 2009 | Media freedom

A CIVIL society group has petitioned  Commissioner Pansy Tlakula,  the African Union's Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Expression to “urgently intervene" to block a new bill aiming to regulate Nigeria's media,...