31 Mar 2014 Debate opens on radio financing
CAMECO (Catholic Media Council), a consultancy specializing in media and communications, on March 31 began facilitating an 11-day online debate on how to generate income towards achieving...
CAMECO (Catholic Media Council), a consultancy specializing in media and communications, on March 31 began facilitating an 11-day online debate on how to generate income towards achieving...
WACC is currently trying to help REFRAKA, a community media group, to animate and give confidence to rural women in communicating their needs and concerns....
UNESCO Report paints a picture of change and disruption to media freedom, pluralism, independence and the safety of journalists brought on by technology and, to a lesser extent,...
The Women’s Media Center (WMC), in its Status of Women in the U. S. Media 2014 report, found that men still dominate print, broadcast and digital media. While noting barriers...
Human rights defenders from Bangladesh have called the international community’s attention to the severe
persecution of Bangladesh’s religious and ethnic minorities. Religious extremism, fundamentalism and lack of security are cited as...
Sharon Bhagwan Rolls, who is passionate about implementing Section J of the Beijing Platform for Action to advance women’s political and social...
Fiji-based Citizens Constitutional Forum (CCF), a WACC corporate member, is calling on the people of Fiji to promote a culture of peace, tolerance and coexistence among ethnic groups...
WACC members approve new governing documents prior to submission to Industry Canada to renew WACC's incorporation.
...California-based filmmaker Jennifer Lee, a 2015 Global Media Monitoring Project (GMMP) Ambassador, will be presenting her film...
Church press agency Protestinfo responds to attacks on its integrity following the publication of a study called “Creationist teaching: Public education displays its discomfort”....
Sharon Bhagwan Rolls, executive director of FemLINKPACIFIC in Fiji and a WACC partner, on March 11 accepted the 2014 Women of Distinction Award from the Read More
WACC announces a Summer School on “Communication and Religion” that will take place 16-21 June 2014 in Toronto, Canada....
In February 2014 the Committee to Protect Journalists released its annual analysis of Attacks on the Press, including a “Risk List” of the places where press freedom suffered...
Please help support a project for rural women in Haiti to make community radio programs! Run by WACC partner REFRAKA, it will bring women's voices to the attention of local...
Celebrate International Women's Day by participating in efforts to raise awareness about gender equality in and through the media, drive debate, and encourage action-oriented solutions until global objectives are met.
...St. Paul University, Ottawa, Canada, plans to launch a new graduate program on “Ethics and Religious Beliefs in the Media” before September 2014....
Gustavo Andújar has been elected as the new President of SIGNIS, one of WACC's international partners. It is the first time the association has a president coming from Latin America.
...An unusual conversation in the style of a TV chat show took place during the SIGNIS Congress 2014 in Rome, Italy, which concluded on 27 February. Called “A...
Hans Hodel has been presented with a trophy in recognition of the Honorary Life Membership conferred on him by WACC’s Board of Directors late last year. ...
“Media for a culture of peace: Creating images with the new generation” is the theme of the SIGNIS World Congress 2014 taking place 25-27 February in Rome, Italy....
California-based filmmaker Jennifer Lee -- one of the inaugural group of “ambassadors” for the WACC-coordinated Global Media Monitoring Project (GMMP) 2015 –...
Internews Community Radio Network (CRN) stations in South Sudan have made heroic efforts to remain on air and keep their listeners informed about rapidly changing events during the...
Targets and indicators for opening up civic space to the best and most creative ideas and actions to help achieve sustainable development post-2015 proposed by the Article 19.
...The Ecumenical Jury at the 64th Berlinale (6-16 February 2014) awarded its main prize in the Competition to the film Stations of the Cross directed by Dietrich Brüggemann, Germany/France 2014.
...World Radio Day 2014 was marked on Feb. 13 with a number of commemorations. UNESCO Director-General Irina Bokova, in her message for World Radio Day 2014, called...
Extraordinary General Meeting to be held at the head office of the Association (308 Main Street, Toronto M4C 4X7 Canada) on 18 March 2014 commencing at 14:00 local...
African Freedom of Expression Exchange deplores the current state of attacks, arrests, detentions, incarcerations and harassment meted out to professional journalists in many countries on the continent....
A number of media and social-justice organizations such as Amnesty International, Access and Free Press, are dedicating Feb. 11 as “The Day We Fight Back” against mass surveillance...
African media can and should do more to tell the story of climate change, according to a new UNESCO publication....
Civil society organisations around the world call on United Nations to put government accountability and independent media at the centre of a new framework for global development.
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