The year started up bad for journalists in Armenia - even worse than the previous year, here’s a troubling list of some of the recent events:
“…The three-and-a-half year jail sentence handed to the editor of “Zhamanak Yerevan†- Arman Babajanian…” RFE/RL.
“…The Toyota Prado belonging to Suren Baghdasarian of the “Football Plus†weekly and parked […]
Wednesday night we ended up watching American Idol’s L.A. auditions on the Fox network. Last night’s program finally televised an Armenian American from Southern California. I really don’t have the nerve to describe what I saw as this performance was beyond anything I have ever seen on national television. Check out Martik Manoukian’s unusual American […]
A video grab released by Turkish police shows an image of a man suspected of killing journalist Hrant Dink, one of Turkey’s most prominent ethnic Armenians, as the government came under fire for failing to protect him despite nationalist threats.(AFP/HO)
According to a recent AP news release, Turkish Police detained a suspect early today in the […]
Police say prominent Turkish-Armenian journalist gunned down, TV report says teen suspected
Aaron Johnson of What the Duck stumbled upon my blog and sent an email this morning pointing me in the direction of the latest instalment in his comic strip. This time he covers the issue of citizen journalism and photography.
This is quite relevant at the moment given news that Yahoo and Reuters plan to […]
“Some things never change in this world” - the advanced internet user of today might think looking at the website of some major Armenian media outlets, like that of AZG daily Armenpress, Arminfo, and a number of others. Many of these guys have been going with the same interface for AGES (3 or […]
I remember reading that one and only issue of Forbes Armenian version and thinking: just how could this happen? How could a company like “Forbes” allow such unprofessional publication: bad layout, low quality print - but worst of all: extreemly biased reporting. It wasn’t even close to journalism - although Petros Ghazarian, then the Editor […]
While UK, at least for myself, appears as the fore-post of democracy in the world, Armenia in line with a number of other former Soviet States, has become one of the labs where the huge Russian experiment on developing a form of Contained Democracy - a democratic imitation is undertaken.
A1 Plus Anniversary Protest Rally, Yerevan, Republic of Armenia © Onnik Krikorian / Oneworld Multimedia 2004
The Institute for War & Peace Reporting (IWPR) has a very depressing story on the state of the broadcast media here. Unlike the print media in Armenia, the TV stations offer very little plurality in terms of information or news […]
Mkhitarist Seminary, Yerevan, Republic of Armenia © Onnik Krikorian / CNEWA One Magazine 2006
I’ve been a little quiet of late because of work and in particular an article and photos that I had to produce for One Magazine, a publication of the Catholic Near East Welfare Association (CNEWA). After viewing my Lightstalkers portfolio, the magazine’s […]
