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Media Highlights – September 13, 2012

Media Highlights – September 13, 2012  About Our Broadcasters  President Nominates NBCU International Chief Jeff Shell to Head BBG - Broadcasting & Cable, September 12, 2012 Jeff Shell, president of NBCUniversal International, has been nominated by President Barack Obama to be chairman of the Broadcasting Board of Governors. Cuba Read more »

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Media Highlights – September 12, 2012

Media Highlights – September 12, 2012 About Our Broadcasters Ian Burrell: The world’s most isolated people could do with London calling – The Independent, September 10, 2012 Members of the social elite and those living close to borders are most likely to be able to Read more »

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Media Highlights – September 11, 2012

Media Highlights – September 11, 2012 About Our Broadcasters Syria: ANHRI condmens the detention and the fabrication of charges of terrorism against a Turkish journalist – Arabic Network for Human Rights Information, September 9, 2012 ANHRI denounces, the detain Turkish photo-journalist “Junaid Unal” and the Read more »

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Media Highlights – September 10, 2012

Media Highlights – September 10, 2012 About Our Broadcasters Nigeria: Why We Attacked Telecoms Facilities – Boko Haram – AllAfrica, September 7, 2012 A statement written in Hausa and signed by Abul-Qaqa equally threatened attacks on the facilities of the Voice of America (VOA) as Read more »

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Media Highlights – September 7, 2012

Media Highlights – September 7, 2012 About Our Broadcasters BBG Renews Call for Info on Missing Journalists – Broadcasting & Cable, September 5, 2012 The Broadcasting Board of Governors Thursday again pressed the Syrian government on the whereabouts of a pair of missing journalists. Bashar Read more »

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Media Highlights – September 6, 2012

Media Highlights – September 6, 2012 About Our Broadcasters VOA Has 70 People Covering the Conventions – Radio World, September 5, 2012 Last week we heard from Chris Nelson of NPR about the technical side of radio coverage at the Republican National Convention. Today we Read more »

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Media Highlights – September 5, 2012

Media Highlights – September 5, 2012 About Our Broadcasters What you need to know about Syria today – CNN, September 5, 2012 He also said he had no new information on two journalists working for the U.S. government-funded broadcaster Al-Hurra. Turkish cameraman Cuneyt Unal, who Read more »

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Media Highlights – September 4, 2012

Media Highlights – September 4, 2012 About Our Broadcasters   Syria says no dialogue before it crushes rebels – AP, September 3, 2012 At least three journalists are missing in Syria and are believed to be held by the regime. Alhurra TV correspondent Bashar Fahmi, Read more »

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Swahili Service Town Hall Meeting in Zanzibar – July 11-12, 2012

    Swahili services concluded two more town hall meetings in July, part of a series of town hall meetings funded by USAID-Tanzania under the Tanzania Health Project. Swahili staffer Khadija Riyami moderated both town hall meetings. The first town hall meeting was held at Read more »

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Radio Farda Journalist Wins 2012 MJ Bear Fellowship

Radio Farda's Ajiri

Radio Farda’s Denise Hassanzade Ajiri has been awarded the 2012 MJ Bear Fellowship. Ajiri is one of three journalists under age 30 selected by the Online News Association (ONA) to receive the fellowship, which is named after digital journalism pioneer and former RFE/RL programming director Read more »

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