Submitted to TBS by Sean O'Siochru, Secretary General and Treasurer of the MacBride Roundtable on Communication This is a call to build a Global Movement on Media and Communication for the 21st century. At its core is the demand that the voices of ordinary people around the world are no …

An excerpt from a master's thesis submitted to the Department of Journalism and Mass Communications, The American University in Cairo, January 1999 Overview: Pay TV in the Arab World In every nation of the Arab world except Lebanon, the national broadcasting systems used to be entirely government-owned. The old and …

An online discussion with Philip Kitley, Keval Kumar, Brian Shoesmith, Amos Owen Thomas, and Tony Wilson TBS: Some experts believe transnational broadcasting has the potential to bring harmony between subgroups and between nations. Others believe the opposite, that the diversity of cultures that transnational broadcasting reflects and spreads will in the …

TBS Contributing Editor Chris Forrester caught up with Murdoch to talk about News Corp's expansion into Europe Preparing for a snapshot interview with Rupert Murdoch is a difficult challenge for any journalist. First, the man is, for all the publicity that surrounds him, something of an enigma. We all know him so well, …

TBS: You alluded in your presentation at the 1998 International Broadcasting Convention in Amsterdam to the fact that the fast pace of technological growth could lead to a wide gap between those who are "high-tech" and an "information underclass," in terms of nations, regions, and individuals. Do you think that public …

EDTV to Launch Four New Free-to-Air Channels, New Arabsat Captures Middle East Hotbird Status The big story from the 1999 Dubai Cable and Satellite Show was Arabsat 3A, which was successfully launched February 27, 1999, and which will be co-located with its existing sister craft. But the main news from the …

Disempowerment and Empowerment Today we observe, across the world, that people face pervasive worldwide governmental and commercial censorship; distorted and misleading information; stereotyped and damaging images of the human condition including gender, age, race, ethnicity, sexuality, physical and mental illness and disability; restricted access to knowledge, and insufficient channels to …

Organized by the Jordan Institute of Diplomacy in cooperation with the MacBride Roundtable on Communication and the Med Media Jemstone Network By TBS Senior Editor Hussein Amin and Editorial Assistant Dana Zureikat The 10th MacBride Roundtable on Communication, organized by the Jordan Institute of Diplomacy in cooperation with the MacBride Roundtable …

An International Seminar of Article 19, The International Centre Against Censorship The International Centre Against Censorship (Article 19) organized an international seminar on broadcasting in the Middle East and North Africa held February 20-21, 1999 in Cairo. Article 19's name comes from Article 19 of the United Nations Universal Declaration of …

A report of the Strategic Planning Session held November 20, 1998 at the Sugarloaf Conference Center of Temple University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania By conference organizer George Gerbner  Bell Atlantic Professor of Telecommunications, Temple University On November 20, 1998, Bell Atlantic-Pennsylvania and Temple University sponsored a strategic planning session for an international …