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Journalists’ institute welcomes arrival of new Telegraph owners

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24th June 2004
The CIoJ welcomes the news that the Daily Telegraph and the Sunday Telegraph have been purchased by the Barclay brothers.
In our view, this gives the Telegraph titles and their staffs …

Ghana High Commissioner to help resolve West Africa Magazine dispute

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23rd June 2004
The Chartered Institute of Journalists has asked the High Commissioner for Ghana to help resolve an 11-month dispute at West Africa Magazine.
Members of staff at the magazine have been trying …

JOURNALISTS’ INSTITUTE SLAMS HUTTON

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2nd February 2004
The Chartered Institute of Journalists has joined other media industry organisations in condemning the Hutton Report for “whitewashing the Government’s role in the Kelly affair.
It is clear, from the …

Leading journalists’ organisation calls for tighter accreditation procedures

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24th July, 2002
The Chartered Institute of Journalists voices ‘grave concern’
As the anniversary of the tragic events in New York approaches, the Chartered Institute of Journalists is calling on the government to demand …

Journalists’ institute demands explanation for detention of Zimbabwean pressman

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5th February 2002
Reporter was due in London to receive institute’s medal for services to press freedom
The London-based Chartered Institute of Journalists (CIoJ) – the world’s oldest professional association for journalists – …

Journalists’ institute backs Government on Zimbabwe

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10th January 2002
The London-based Chartered Institute of Journalists (CIoJ) has welcomed calls by the British Government for Zimbabwe to be suspended from the Commonwealth, in the light of the Harare regime’s …

Statement on Zimbabwe from the Chartered Institute of Journalists

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11th December 2001
It is becoming all too apparent that President Robert Mugabe is not prepared to risk the outcome of a free and fair result in next year’s Presidential election in …

Journalists’ institute to award Gold Medal to Zimbabwe’s free press

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18th November 2001
Members of the Chartered Institute of Journalists (CIoJ) have voted at their annual conference to award the Institute’s Gold Medal to “the independent press of Zimbabwe”.
The last Gold Medal to be awarded …