March 25th, 2011 With the General Elections looming, a workshop for bloggers warned them to beware the law of defamation. Lawyer Wong Siew Hong advised them to conscientiously check their facts. If caught up in…
March 21st, 2011 Journalist and citizen media guru Dan Gillmor will be speaking about his new book, Mediactive, at NTU on Monday 28 March. All are welcome. DAN GILLMOR MEDIACTIVE: WHY WE SHOULD ALL BE…
by CHERIAN GEORGE March 15th, 2011 The liberalisation of online campaigning rules raises intriguing questions about the upcoming polls. At one level, the move merely acknowledges the new realities, as Alex Au of Yawning Bread…
by COMMUNITY OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY EXPERTS March 1st, 2011 Some 20 independent information technology (IT) and legal experts have come together to provide voluntary legal information to Singapore online users of their rights and responsibilities….
by BHAVAN JAIPRAGAS January 12th, 2011 The heft of the government’s ‘light touch’ has descended upon local sociopolitical website The Online Citizen, just as it passed the four-year mark of its inception. According to an…
November 10th, 2010 The Government has used the opportunity of Today‘s 10th anniversary to signal that it is not utterly opposed to critical views appearing in the mainstream press. In his congratulatory message, Prime Minister…
November 6th, 2010 Freedom of speech and accountable government may be universal values, but the particular American formula for balancing individual liberty and social interests isn’t globally valid, Cabinet Minister K. Shanmugam has said….
by CHERIAN GEORGE September 24th, 2010 The question I was most often asked by outsiders during my term as head of journalism at NTU’s Wee Kim Wee School was, how exactly do we educate our…
by CHERIAN GEORGE September 16th, 2010 The Censorship Review Committee has added its voice to calls that Singapore stop its practice of banning a symbolic list of pornographic and extremist websites. The idea had been…
August 31st, 2010 A recent forum for freelancers from various media industries discussed the idea of setting up an organisation to represent them. Freelancers face common challenges such as strengthening their legal rights and the…