Covid 19 coronavirus: When Covid hit, China was ready to tell its version of the story
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Under Xi Jinping China has inserted money, power and perspective into the media in almost every country in the world. Photo / AP
Under Xi Jinping China has inserted money, power and perspective into the media in almost every country in the world. Photo / AP
New York Times
By: Ben Smith
The government has been using its money and power to create an alternative to a global news media dominated by outlets like the BBC and CNN. In the fall of 2019, just before global borders
Ben Smith, The New York Times
Published: 10 May 2021 11:43 AM BdST
Updated: 10 May 2021 11:44 AM BdST A giant screen shows news footage of Chinese President Xi Jinping attending a video summit on climate change with German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Emmanuel Macron, at a shopping street in Beijing, China April 16, 2021. REUTERS
In the fall of 2019, just before global borders closed, an international journalists’ association decided to canvass its members about a subject that kept coming up in informal conversations: What is China doing? );
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What it found was astonishing in its scope. Journalists from countries as tiny as Guinea-Bissau had been invited to sign agreements with their Chinese counterparts. The Chinese government was distributing versions of its propaganda newspaper China Daily in English and also Serbian. A Filipino journalist estimated that more than half of the stories on a Philippines newswire came from the Chinese state agen
IFJ 30 April 2021
IFJ at World Press Freedom Day in Namibia
Information as a public good is the subject of World Press Freedom Day, held in Windhoek, Namibia, 30 years after the Windhoek Declaration (3 May 1991). It remains a seminal event for the development of a free, independent and pluralistic press. World Press Freedom Day has its origins in the UNESCO conference in Windhoek. Below you will find the programme with the participation of the IFJ and its regions.
CONFERENCE PROGRAMME
Regional Forums
The global conference is connecting with the regional World Press Freedom Day celebrations, building upon the historic series of regional seminars triggered by the 1991 Seminar in Windhoek, which inspired regional declarations to promote a free, independent, and pluralistic press, in meetings held in Alma-Ata (1992), Santiago (1994), Sana’a (1996), and Sofia (1997).