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New Times: Making a Professional Newspaper in an Emerging Democracy
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 Second updated edition
by Tatiana Repkova
This book focuses on how to establish, manage and run a newspaper in a society that is in transition between an authoritarian or totalitarian past and a democratic present and future. It is quite specific in this regard, and its examples are drawn from real-life experience in countries experiencing such transition. The book’s exhibits combine the practices of several real newspapers in both the business and editorial side. More
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2008 WAN Press Freedom Roundtable
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'Offending, Shocking, Disturbing - A Free Press Right?'
 As the 2005 Danish caricatures of Prophet Mohammed continue to ricochet
from newsrooms to religious communities to government offices and court
rooms around the world, the right to offend, disturb and shock
audiences has led many to question how far freedom of expression and
freedom of the press can extend. During the press freedom roundtable at
the 61st World Newspaper Congress in Göteborg, Sweden, publishers,
journalists, a cartoonist and human rights experts defended the right
to offend audiences but also addressed its implications. Arabic Version
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'Beijing Olympics 2008: Winning Press Freedom'
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 The World Association of Newspapers, along with five
other press freedom and human rights organizations, is now offering the
full report from the “Beijing Olympics 2008: Winning Press Freedom”
international conference, held on 18 & 19 April, 2008 in Paris,
France. You can either download it or order a hard copy free of charge. More
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New Media: The Press Freedom Dimension
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 This book is a record of an international conference – “New Media: The Press Freedom Dimension. Challenges and Opportunities of New Media for Press Freedom” – to explore the emerging and rapidly evolving environment of press freedom created by the new electronic media. It took place at the headquarters of UNESCO in Paris 15-16 February 2007.
With speakers from more than 30 countries, the discussions covered a wide range of topics from citizen journalism and freedom of expression, to the looming reality of censorship, as dictators, taking the cue from China, place blocks on the Internet and lock up people for expressing their views in cyberspace. More
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