Tag: self-censorship

• Gezi Park Protests Push Turkey’s Media into the Spotlight (Updated)

  By now, you’ll have heard – perhaps via international media, or on Twitter or Facebook – about the protests that started in defence of one of Istanbul’s last remaining green spaces, and have now, in response to heavy-handed policing and broader worries about democratic rights, spread across many cities in Turkey.  I’ve been following the torrent of…

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  01/06/2013

  Policy, Law & Regulation

  #gezipark, censorship, demokrasi, feature, featured, gazetecilik, iyi yönetişim, media policy, media reform, mediapolicy.org, medya politikası, Press freedom, protest, report, research, self-censorship, Turkey, turkiye, twitter, yayın

• Justice Mihayo who is also the Chairperson of the MCT’s Ethics Committee said though information was an integral part of democracy and good governance, the government should not block or limit access to crucial information which it does not want the public to know. He said there are a number of reasons for the government…

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  27/09/2012

  Clippings, News, Policy, Law & Regulation

  access to information, africa, data, media ownership, open government, right to information, self-censorship, tanzania, transparency

• Justice Mihayo who is also the Chairperson of the MCT’s Ethics Committee said though information was an integral part of democracy and good governance, the government should not block or limit access to crucial information which it does not want the public to know. He said there are a number of reasons for the government…

  @sdp

  27/09/2012

  Work

  access to information, africa, data, media ownership, open government, right to information, self-censorship, tanzania, transparency