Media News - Tuesday, April 29, 2008
IHT and FT plan UAE debuts
The International Herald Tribune and the Financial Times, two publications with hundreds of
thousands of readers around the world, will soon make their UAE debut.
At a celebration on Wednesday of the 30th anniversary of Khaleej Times,
company executives are expected to announce a publishing partnership
with the International Herald Tribune (IHT), which is owned by the New
York Times Company. Meanwhile, the Financial Times, the UK-based global
business daily owned by Pearson, is launching a Middle East edition
starting Tuesday. The papers would arrive just weeks after the launch of The National, an
English-language paper published six days a week by the Abu Dhabi Media
Company, and only a few months after Dubai-based Arab Media Group
relaunched one of the country’s dailies as a business publication,
Emirates Business 24/7.
(The National)
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US radio websites in Eastern Europe hit by cyberattack: bosses
Websites run by US Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, based in eastern Europe, have been hit by an ‘unprecedented’ cyberattack, management said Monday. ‘The attack, which started on April 26, initially targeted the website of RFE/RL's Belarus Service, but quickly spread to other sites,’ a statement on its website said. ‘Within hours, eight RFE/RL websites (Belarus, Kosovo, Azerbaijan, Tatar-Bashkir, Radio Farda, South Slavic, Russian, and Tajik) were knocked out or otherwise affected,’ it added. Belarus Service Director Alexander Lukashuk said that the problems began on the 22nd anniversary of the Chernobyl nuclear catastrophe. Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty (RFE/RL) is an independent, international news and broadcast organization whose programming - radio, Internet and television - reaches audiences in 21 countries including Russia, Iran, Iraq, Afghanistan and the republics of Central Asia. (AFP)
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Self-censor to be published, Iran warns writers
Iran's culture minister on Monday urged writers to self-censor their books if they want to be published in the Islamic republic, which applies strict vetting on literature and other arts. ‘This is what we ask publishers and writers, you are aware of the vetting code, so censor pages which are likely to create a dispute,’ conservative minister Mohammad Hossein Safar Harandi told a news conference. He said publications should be in line with the system's ‘religious, moral and national’ sensitivities and warned writers against graphic descriptions of relationships or sex. All publications in Iran must be approved by the ministry of culture and Islamic guidance, and publishers have complained of tighter censorship on new books since President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad came to power in 2005. Safar Harandi was commenting on a recent letter by Tehran Publishers' Association who accused his ministry of employing a prolonged and arbitrary vetting process. ‘The publishers complained about the lack of a clear law to define the red lines, revoking of publication permits and books being lost when submitted for screening,’ ISNA news agency said. (AFP via Middle East Times)
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Central Asian broadcasters call for more independent reporting
Journalists working for state broadcasters should write more stories that are relevant to the lives of ordinary citizens, a workshop on regional journalism was told Friday. Gulnara Ibrayeva, Head of Apparatus for the National TV and Radio Corporation of Kyrgyzstan, was speaking at a roundtable on ‘Challenges Confronting Regional Journalists’ held as part of the Eurasian Media Forum in Almaty, Kazakhstan. She said that important news that citizens ought to be informed about was often neglected by state broadcasters. ‘For example, we had an inter-racial conflict near Bishkek, but the local media didn't report it. It was only covered by the Russian media and CNN. Other panelists from Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan gave examples of how so-called ‘news’ reports on state TV and radio channels were based on government press releases and involved no independent reporting. They also discussed how many private channels were reluctant to present alternative views or analysis for fear of upsetting governments and losing advertising contracts. Kumar Bekbolotov, the Central Asian Programmes Director of the IWPR in Kyrgyzstan, told the workshop that there was a direct connection between the level of professionalism of journalists and the independence of the media in the Central Asian republics. He said this could only be overcome through the training of journalists to promote more independent reporting. (Asia Pacific Broadcasting Union)
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Hungarian culture fund chief defends proposed Internet tax against ‘false’ arguments
Critics of the new taxes on Internet-related services the Hungarian government plans to implement are basing their opposition on ‘false’ reasoning, the head of the country's National Cultural Fund (NKA) said last week. According to privatbankar.hu, NKA head László Harsányi said that the .8 percent ‘cultural contribution’ being proposed for a variety of online services would help encourage, rather than stunt, the cause of developing a modern information society in Hungary. Harsányi said that the charges would amount to only an extra HUF 20 - HUF 70 (EUR 0.07c - 0.28) per Hungarian Internet user per month, and that this revenue would be spent on projects aimed at ‘closing the digital gap’ that sees Hungary lagging behind some regional peers in Internet penetration and usage. The new tax would target ISPs, data transfer and work by some designers, and would produce an estimated HUF 2.5bn - HUF 3bn (roughly EUR 10m - EUR 12m) a year in revenue for the NKA. The proposal to tax online services comes as the government plans to slap a cultural levy on clothing retailers, based on the concept that clothing design is a form of culture. Meanwhile, Harsányi said the arguments against the ‘Internet tax’ were effectively moot, as the country's Culture Minister has no plans to withdraw the proposition, and there is as yet no sign of this happening. (Realdeal.hu)
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European media monitored through new Web site
A new Web site has been launched to monitor television policy, regulation and independence in Europe. Currently, the Web site, MediaPolicy.org, monitors Bulgaria, Lithuania, Romania and Albania. Plans are in the works to grow the site into a full journal covering television policy and standards from various angles, in Europe and beyond, according to a statement on the site. The site was launched by the EU Monitoring and Advocacy Program (EUMAP) of the Open Society Institute and the Network Media Program of the Open Society Foundation. To learn more, go to http://www.mediapolicy.org/. (International Journalists Network)
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