Two journalists share CJA Ingram Fellowship to study at Cambridge
The Derek Ingram Press Fellowship, set up in honour of the distinguished co-founder of the CJA, is now in its second year, and thanks to the availability of extra funding, we have been able to select not one Fellow, as in the inaugural year, but two. Wolfson College, Cambridge, which runs the Fellowship in conjunction […]
Murray Burt, media rights advocate and role model
CJA stalwart and former president, Murray Burt, has died in Winnipeg, Canada, aged 90. Murray was an advocate for the rights of journalists throughout the world, believed strongly in the founding principles of the CJA to fight for media freedom, and was a role model for many young journalists. The following tribute comes from current […]
An opportunity to study journalism’s role in your society – apply for the fully-funded Derek Ingram Fellowship
Picture shows the inaugural Derek Ingram Press Fellow, Saad Zuberi of Pakistan, right, with CJA-UK President Raymond Whitaker. See his personal story How Western media can get it wrong – CJA Fellowship helps Pakistani journalist correct the balance, next to this article on the Home Page. x The Commonwealth Journalists Association is now inviting applications […]
How international law can rescue free speech
Colonial-era laws are a crippling barrier to free speech and press freedom in Commonwealth countries – made clear in Freedom of Speech in International Law, a publication reviewed by WILLIAM HORSLEY. The global struggle to protect free speech has reached a new fever pitch. The power of news media to act as a safeguard against […]
How we help to launch careers in journalism
Picture shows CJA UK President Raymond Whitaker with journalism students at the launch of the mentoring scheme at the University of Westminster, in London. After a successful pilot scheme in 2023, the Commonwealth Journalists Association has now assembled a new team of young journalists to be monitored in the UK in 2024. They will be […]
Young citizen journalists in Pakistan give a voice to Afghan refugees
Picture shows an Afghan citizen journalist filming a tailor making traditional dresses in Peshawar. Although fairly young at age 24, Nooria Bazwan, pictured, has seen and experienced enough to tell compelling stories – stories that can change reader and listener minds about many issues. Born in Afghanistan, Bazwan’s family fled to Pakistan in 2001 just as the U.S.-led […]
Zambians step closer to accessing information
An Access to Information Act has been approved in Zambia, with President Hakainde Hichilema, pictured, calling it a major milestone in the media sector and the country. Zambia becomes the latest country in Southern Africa to introduce such an act, after Namibia in 2022. Access to information legislation has been a contentious issue for decades […]
Pakistan media backs gender equality
Media stakeholders and leaders at press clubs, unions, and prominent news outlets across Pakistan have pledged to address barriers to women’s leadership, inclusivity, and equal representation. The messages of support came following groundbreaking Women’s Media Forum Pakistan (WMFP) campaigning and mapping work in support of gender equality in the country’s media. The “Pakistan’s Media Needs Women” campaign […]
Inaugural CJA lecture asks where next for AI
Professor John Naughton of Wolfson College, Cambridge, who is the technology columnist of The Observer newspaper, examined the impact of artificial intelligence on the media landscape in the first of what will be an annual series of lectures under the auspices of the CJA-UK. The softly-spoken Irishman began by redefining the terms of his brief: […]
“Negative reporting” forces journalist out of India
The Committee to Protect Journalists, CPJ, has urged the Indian authorities to immediately reinstate French reporter Vanessa Dougnac’s journalism permit and stop using legal technicalities to prevent journalists from carrying out their duties. Indian authorities ordered Ms Dougnac, pictured, a former South Asia correspondent for multiple international news organizations who is married to an Indian […]