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The digital revolution has radically altered the ways in which we communicate with each other and gather information. Social media platforms have created a complex information ecosystem that is both a blessing and a curse for free and independent media outlets. Digital technologies have created unprecedented opportunities for reporting and distributing journalistic content. For many,… Continue reading FOME SYMPOSIUM 2019 Rethinking media development – New actors, new technologies and new strategies

The World Economic Forum will host the 2019 India Economic Summit in New Delhi from 3 to 4 October Under the theme “Innovating for India: Strengthening South Asia, Impacting the World”, the summit will convene key leaders from government, business, academia and civil society to facilitate dialogue on the policy tools, business models, industry standards… Continue reading WEF: Media Accreditation Opens for 2019 India Economic Summit

Very Heartiest Congratulations to H.E. Professor Dr. Major Nazmul Ahsan Kalimullah, BNCCO, Vice-Chancellor, Begum Rokeya University, Rangpur, Bangladesh for establishing the Campus Online Radio for Begum Rokeya University, Rangpur, Bangladesh. Campus Online Radio of Begum Rokeya University, Rangpur, following aims and objectives: To bring life skills and educational information, development motivation & entertainment programming to… Continue reading Campus Online Radio for Begum Rokeya University, Rangpur, Rangpur, Bangladesh

The Global Conference for Media Freedom in 2019 on10 to 11 July 2019 in London. Chrystia Freeland, Canadian Minister of Foreign Affairs, and Jeremy Hunt, the UK Foreign Secretary, have co-host the conference. It is part of an international campaign to shine a global spotlight on media freedom and increase the cost to those that… Continue reading The Global Conference for Media Freedom in 2019 : Global pledge on media freedom

We have entered in a new generation of technologies namely the fourth Industrial revolution (4thIR). This new generation of new technologies advancements is merging our physical, digital and biological worlds unlike any time before. This is a huge transformation for the world including Bangladesh and again a big challenge for us as well. This transformation… Continue reading Strengthening the Community Radio sector for adapting challenges in the era of the Fourth Industrial Revolution

At the Global Conference for Media Freedom, representatives of governments around the world signed a pledge to work together to protect media freedom. Media freedom faces growing threats around the world. Journalists and media organisations are increasingly confronted in their vital work by restrictive laws, punitive legal measures, and physical violence. Too often, whether they… Continue reading Global pledge on media freedom: Global Conference for Media Freedom, UK 10-11 July 2019

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… Continue reading UK Government to establish National Committee for the Safety of Journalists

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… Continue reading Community Climate Airwaves through Community Radio @ Honorable Prime Minister H.E. Sheikh Hasina, Government of the People’s Republic of Bangladesh

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… Continue reading BBC Media Action is the lead partner in a new consortium focusing on support to independent media, announced by DFID today

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… Continue reading Global Media Freedom Conference: new pledges not credible without action, press freedom groups say