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CIoJ welcomes release of journalists
CIoJ welcomes release of journalists

THE CHARTERED INSTITUTE OF JOURNALISTS has welcomed the release of journalists Laura Long and Euna Lee from captivity and hard labour in North Korea.
“This is a positive step by the North Korean authorities,” said CIoJ …

The Institute is now on Facebook

This allows us to keep in touch with members who use the leading social networking site, and also to recruit new ones.
Our Facebook page is open to all users, whether members of the CIoJ or …

IPI to Hold International Conference on Terrorism, Media and the Law

5 August, VIENNA. The International Press Institute (IPI), the global network for a free media, and the Salzburg-based Center for International Legal Studies (CILS), announce the international conference, “The War on Words – Terrorism, Media …

Obituary – Eileen Summers

Eileen Vincent Summers
Eileen was born in London on August 4, 1918 and died on August 1, 2009 – three days short of her 91st birthday.
Eileen was adopted by a couple named Arthur and Lizzie Gladman, …

CIoJ VETERAN DIES

CIoJ VETERAN DIES: It is with sadness that I have to inform you that Eileen Summers died on Saturday, 1 August 2009.
She slipped away peacefully while a friend sat with her.
A small memorial service will …

CIoJ Training – Twitter and Wolfram Alpha – 6 October 2009

Woolfram-Alpha Exposed!
There’s a new search engine – and it could almost have been designed especially for journalists!
Learn the real power of this new online program, which offers the first real alternative to Google.
- Want to …

What price democracy? Audit Commission can’t answer…so who will?
What price democracy? Audit Commission can’t answer…so who will?

NEWS RELEASE
Release time: 30 July 2009
The Audit Commission’s inquiry into local authority newspapers, ordered by the Government in its Digital Britain report, will not include an examination of their effect on traditional local newspapers.
Steve Bundred, …

Arrest of journalists deplorable

Release date: 3 July 2009
Statement
The CIoJ deplores the arrest by the Iranian Authorities of more than 30 journalists and the expulsion of some foreign reporters.   The Chartered Institute urges the immediate release of …

JOURNALISTS SHOULD NOT CENSOR NEWS
JOURNALISTS SHOULD NOT CENSOR NEWS

NEWS RELEASE
RELEASE TIME: IMMEDIATE, 17 JUNE 2009
THE Chartered Institute of Journalists believes that the election of BNP members to mainstream politics should be dealt with in the same even handed manner as all other political …

CIoJ urges Kim Jong-un to intervene

NEWS RELEASE
RELEASE TIME: IMMEDIATE, Friday 12 June 2009
THE CHARTERED INSTITUTE OF JOURNALISTS (CIoJ) is writing to Kim Jong-un to ask him to intervene in the sentencing of two US journalists, Laura Long and Euna Lee, …