The Melted Pen

Source: BBC News

Zimbabwean police have banned political rallies “with immediate effect”, amid growing tension over the country’s disputed presidential election. (Continue Reading)

By Monica Cruz
Source: The Daily O’ Collegian
Spanish newspaper El Pais awards the Pulitzer Prize equivalent for Spanish speaking journalists. The Ortega and Gasset prize in the digital category was awarded to independent blogger Yoani Sanchez. Her merit goes beyond good writing and the blog’s popularity, which registered 1.2 million hits in February. (Continue reading)

To read the winning blog click here

Really funny

Source: ACLU Southern California

A lawsuit filed by the ACLU of Southern California on behalf of student journalists in Bakersfield fighting to have their stories about gay students at their high school published in the school’s newspaper moved to deposition stage in late August. (Continued)

BEIJING (AP) — Internet users in China were blocked from seeing YouTube.com on Sunday after dozens of videos about protests in Tibet appeared on the popular American video Web site. (Continued)

Source: Reporters without Borders

Reporters Without Borders will launch the first International Online Free Expression Day under UNESCO’s patronage on 12 March, when it will also organise its second “24-hour online demo against Internet censorship,” urging Internet users to come and demonstrate on its website, www.rsf.org.
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Source: Hornet Fullerton College
By: Danielle Carrilllo & Alex Lawrence

Danielle Carrillo:
“My vagina is obscene.” Or at least that was the consensus among students at Cleveland High School after the administration confiscated copies of Le Sabre, the student newspaper. (Continued)