For World Press Freedom Day celebrations around the world were publicized through a crowdsourcing tool incorporating interactive mapping.
Another global media giant, the BBC, gave special prominence to World Press Freedom Day this year through an array of radio programmes on the World Service about threats to journalists' lives and the importance of a free press to democracy.
Freedom of Information: The Right to Know, was the theme of the 2010 celebration of World Press Freedom Day, held in Brisbane, Australia.
The occasion marked World Press Freedom Day, which is celebrated internationally on May 3rd every year.
May 3rd has been officially designated by the United Nations General Assembly as World Press Freedom Day.
World Press Freedom Day was established in 1991 and has since been celebrated every year on 3 May.
The award ceremony, which opened celebrations for World Press Freedom Day, was hosted by the President of Tunisia, Dr Moncef Marzouki.
The value of the prize is determined by the Director-General of UNESCO together with the donors, awarded on the occasion of World Press Freedom Day.
Each year the UK World Press Freedom Day Student Journalism Competition is co-hosted by the UK National Commission for UNESCO and the Press Freedom Network.
World Press Freedom Day (WPFD) celebrates its 20th anniversary in 2013.
World Press Freedom Day's annual conference is held in a different location each year and this year the University of Queensland in Brisbane, Australia holds the honour.
World Press Freedom Day 2012 is celebrated in Mongolia with a one month long discussion on media freedom and a round table meeting organized on 3 May.
Since then, the World Press Freedom Day has been celebrated every year on 3 May, and the relevance of these ideas is underlined by democratic events during 2011.
On 3 May 2012, date of the World Press Freedom Day, a round-table will be held with media stakeholders and civil society representatives, including summarizing of the online discussion.
Tunisia adopted a Decree-Law on freedom of information in 2011, and published the circular regulating its implementation on 3 May 2012, on the occasion of World Press Freedom Day.
World Press Freedom Day was established by the General Assembly of the United Nations in December, 1993, as an outgrowth of the Seminar on Promoting an Independent and Pluralistic African Press.
It was adopted by the international body as a way of highlighting the issue of journalist murders and will be observed during World Press Freedom Day Conference in Brisbane on May 3.
UNESCO: World Press Freedom Day 2010: A minute's silence for murdered journalists
It also invites the UNESCO General Conference to propose that a one-minute silence be observed in newsrooms worldwide on World Press Freedom Day (3 May) to honour the journalists killed each year.
Friday marks World Press Freedom Day, and this year the is emphasis is on securing freedom of expression in all media, including a free and open internet -- something Seifi can identify with.
This year, UNESCO will celebrate World Press Freedom Day with an international conference of media professionals entitled Freedom of Information: the Right to Know, in Brisbane (Australia) on 2 and 3 May.
With over 20 killed in the line of duty so far this year she added, 2012 was shaping up as the most deadly year for media since the creation of World Press Freedom Day in 1997.
At the international level, UNESCO will celebrate World Press Freedom Day in Tunisia this year, with a three-day programme of events focused on the role of the media as a catalyst for social and political change.
It is with great pleasure that we now welcome 2013 with new original projects on Underwater Cultural Heritage, Holocaust Education and the 20 years of World Press Freedom Day, as well as translations into different languages of exciting titles.
The call was issued in the Brisbane Declaration adopted at the close of the conference, organized in collaboration with the School of Journalism of the University of Queensland on 2 and 3 May to mark World Press Freedom Day.
During the last World Press Freedom Day celebration (May 3, 2011) the Minister of communication (Gabon) made the commitment to redraft the media law and to, among other thing, align it with the exigencies of media development and freedom in Gabon.
Hannah Marshall, studying an MA in Media at Southampton Solent University, is the winner of the 2010 World Press Freedom Day Student Journalism Competition for her article on how new media can positively effect the UK election and the democratic process as a whole.
The recommendations were agreed at the final session of the 6th Conference of Caribbean Media Wednesday (May 3) which was held in conjunction with global observance of World Press Freedom Day organised by UNESCO this year under the theme of Media and Poverty Alleviation.
On this day, more than any other, my wish for this world is freedom from cruelty, evil and terrorism.
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This cherished day also calls upon us to reflect on our world anew and recognize that the work of freedom is never finished.
Press Freedom Day spawns countless events -- vigils, rallies and debates --in countries around the world.
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