Asian Media

The 5th Asia Media Summit in 2008, which has been scheduled on 27-28 May in Kuala Lumpur, will promote a varied and dynamic mix of content and format to enhance knowledge sharing and participation. Participation for the Summit, one of the premier communication events in Asia-Pacific, is expected from more than 500 high-ranking government officials, policymakers, [...]

A people movement in Malaysia is planning to boycott mainstream media as they tend to publish unbalanced and misleading stories. “We started the campaign on not to buy papers such as Utusan Malaysia, Berita Harian, Metro, News Strait Times, on Thursday 29 November 2007 because they publish misleading information and so unbalanced,” said head of the [...]

Still far away, but worth noting. Free for public service broadcasters, members, affiliates and partners of the Asia-Pacific Institute for Broadcasting Development (AIBD). Registration for private networks, institutes, and individuals is US$600. Please click here and here for further information.

I’ve just read this article from The Economist that talks about how journalism training is booming in the developing countries. What attracts me is the first paragraph of the article that says: “traditional media may be declining in much of the rich world, but in poor countries it is booming. The growth in private media [...]

The Alliance of Independent Journalists, together with Tifa Foundation was monitoring the content of 10 news dailies from June 12-Aug. 4. Based on the result, they said that the print media has violated the traditional professional standards of impartiality and objectivity in their coverage of the gubernatorial election. The dailies are Indo Pos, Kompas, Pos Kota, [...]

T. P. Mishra from The Rising Nepal writes an editorial on the blocking of www.bhutantimes.com (one of the popular sites in Bhutan) by the royal government. They said it brought controversial issues. Previously, www.bhutannews.com was also banned. THE Royal Government of Bhutan has blocked one of the popular sites - www.bhutantimes.com - since June from viewing [...]

From AsiaMedia: Photojournalist Javed Khan fell victim to a flying bullet and died before any help arrived. Another cameraman, Israr Ahmed of the CNBC, was hit three times by automatic gunfire. Till our going to the press, doctors were trying hard to save his life. Another senior journalist, Absar Alam of Geo, was injured when he [...]

Speaking about bribery: A local journalist has been sentenced to four years rigorous imprisonment for taking bribe in Satkhira. This fellow, Raghu Nath Kha, demanded Tk 5000 as bribe to Eman Ali, a driver of Tala upazila parishad. He threatened him to publish news against him on alleged corruption of non-compliance if he does not give [...]

(Received this news from a mailing list. Thought you might be interested to participate. If you are, then good luck for you!) Pesticide Action Network (PAN) Asia and the Pacific and the International Federation of Environmental Journalists (IFEJ) proudly announce the launch of the Asian Rice Journalist Award. The first Award to acknowledge excellence in writing [...]

I have just read an article written by Arman Ahmad from Penang Watch, that tells about how YouTube became popular in Malaysia (YouTube is the fifth most popular website there, according to alexa.com). Ahmad said, YouTube first began to gain prominence during the nude squat incident in which a woman was forced to do nude squats while [...]