Secretary of State for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Jeremy Wright has today announced that the UK will set up a National Committee for the Safety of Journalists. The move underlines the Government’s commitment to press freedom and the safety of journalists to operate in the UK and comes as the Foreign Secretary hosts an International Conference for Media Freedom in London. The Committee will be asked to [...]
DHAKA, July 10, 2019 – The Prime Minister’s Office, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change organized a two-day long Global Commission on Adaptation in Dhaka from 9-10 July 2019 at Hotel Inter Continent, Grand Ballroom, and Dhaka, Bangladesh. Honorable Prime Minister H.E. Sheikh Hasina, Government of the People’s Republic of Bangladesh has inaugurated the program as Chief Guest. Marshal Islands [...]
BBC Media Action is the lead partner in a new consortium focusing on support to independent media, announced by DFID today. DFID Minister for International Development, Harriet Baldwin, made the announcement, of £12m over four years for work in Bangladesh, Ethiopia and Sierra Leone at the Global Conference for Media Freedom in London. ‘Protecting Independent Media for Effective Development’ (PRIMED) will be led by BBC Media [...]
London, July 9, 2019–On 9 July: 33 press freedom and media development organisations met in London in advance of the Global Media Freedom Conference to call on all participating States to ensure the protection and safety of all journalists and media workers in compliance with their existing obligations and international standards. The group, representing and working with hundreds of thousands of journalists and media workers, said [...]
Bangladesh NGOs Network for Radio and Communication (BNNRC) is in Special Consultative Status with the Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC), accredited with World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) of the United Nations and UN WSIS prize winner 2016, Champion 2017 and 2019. BNNRC’s approach to media development is both knowledge-driven and context-sensitive, and it takes into account the challenges and opportunities created by the rapidly [...]
A national seminar on ‘Role of Media in Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in Bangladesh’ was organized by National Institute of Mass Communication (NIMC) of Ministry of Information, Government of the People’s Republic of Bangladesh in Sheikh Russel Conference Hall at Kallyanpur Dhaka on 4th July 2019. Hon’ble State Minister H.E. Dr. Murad Hassan, MP of Ministry of Information attended the national seminar as chief guest and Mr. [...]
Bangladesh is to host its first-ever Asia-Pacific Broadcasting Union(ABU) RadioAsia Conference and Radio Song Festival 29-31 October this year. Bangladesh Television and Bangladesh Betar will welcome delegates to the ABU RadioAsia 2019 Conference this October in Dhaka, while Bangladesh Television will host, record and distribute the international song festival gala concert performances. ABU Head of Radio Olya Booyar says that, with the theme of ‘Radio all Around [...]
The Global Conference for Media Freedom in 2019 will be the first of its kind. It will take place 10 to 11 July in London. The UK and Canadian governments are working together to defend media freedom and improve the safety of journalists who report across the world. Chrystia Freeland, Canadian Minister of Foreign Affairs, and Jeremy Hunt, the UK Foreign Secretary, will co-host the [...]
An independent expert group appointed by the UN Secretary-General calls on governments, the private sector and civil society, to work together urgently to maximize the benefits and minimize the harms of digital technologies In its report, The Age of Digital Interdependence, presented to UN Secretary-General António Guterres today, a 20-person Panel co-chaired by Melinda Gates and Jack Ma calls for greater cooperation to make sure that [...]
Building strong leadership skills among media executives is key to responding to the scale, scope, and complexity of the Fourth Industrial Revolution in which disruptive technologies and trends are changing the way people live, work and relate to one another, said Mr Atte Jääskeläinen, former Director of News and Current Affairs at Finnish Broadcast Company, YLE, and Senior Advisor at Fourkind, an advisory company on [...]
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