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A weeklong event on all things social media will be held in Bangalore, Barcelona, Copenhagen, Hamburg, Lagos, Milan, New York and Tokyo. Social Media Week (SMW) features free events surrounding the latest trends and topics in social and mobile media. Each year, SMW attracts more than 60,000 attendees across thousands of individually organized events, with […]

Journalists, organizations or institutions that promote press freedom worldwide can be nominated for a US$25,000 award. The UNESCO/Guillermo Cano World Press Freedom Prize will recognize a significant contribution to press freedom, especially in high-risk areas. Member states, international/regional organizations or professional/non-governmental organizations working in the field of journalism and freedom of expression can nominate up […]

Full-time college students ages 18 and older can compete. ELS, in cooperation with the United Nations Academic Impact, is seeking entries for its Academic Impact Student Essay Contest. Essays of 2,000 words or less should discuss the ideas of global citizenship and understanding and the role that multilingual­ ability can play in fostering them. The essay […]

Journalists and other professionals interested in social media can participate in this free five-week course. The Knight Center for Journalism in the Americas, through its Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) program, is offering “Social Media for Journalists: The Basics.” The course will be held Feb. 3 — March 2. Students will learn about the best journalistic uses of […]

Photographers around the world can compete in this contest. The Photo Group of Villena and the family of the late photographer Helie Salas are seeking entries for the Helie Memorial competition. The theme is «Women and Art.» Each participant may enter up to four photographs. The images should be submitted on a CD, in JPEG digital format and with […]

Russia’s Federal Migration Service says U.S. journalist David Satter has the right to appeal a decision that bars him from entering the country for five years.  Deputy chief Dmitry Demidenko told journalists on January 15 that Satter was in Russia in late November 2013 without a valid visa «and therefore violated the rules of his […]

RFE/RL has condemned the harassment and intimidation of independent journalists in Ukraine, including a smear campaign targeting RFE/RL contributor Vitaliy Portnikov.  In December, a video containing intimate and illegally obtained images of the journalist appeared on the Internet. His Kyiv apartment was also picketed last week by some 50 protesters who carried threatening posters and […]

The European Union Delegation issues the following statement in agreement with the EU Heads of Mission in Tajikistan.

The U.S. State Department says it is «disappointed» that U.S. journalist and RFE/RL adviser David Satter has been denied a visa by Russian authorities.  U.S. State Department spokeswoman Marie Harf said on January 14 that «hindering the free flow of information undermines… free debate and discussion.» U.S. Representative Eliot Engel (Democrat-New York), a member of […]