We, the undersigned civil society organisations in Malaysia, deplore the one-sided and highly irresponsible New Straits Times (NST) front cover story on 21 September 2012 which alleged two global funders and nine organisations which received grants from them are part of a “plot to destabilize the government”.

We, the undersigned civil society organisations in Malaysia, deplore the one-sided and highly irresponsible New Straits Times (NST) front cover story on 21 September 2012 which alleged two global funders and nine organisations which received grants from them are part of a “plot to destabilize the government”.

Centre for Independent Journalism (CIJ) regrets the reprehensible conduct of the journalists who overstepped their ethical and professional boundaries during a recent police raid on a suspected vice den in Selangor.

The Centre for Independent Journalism (CIJ) wishes to draw attention to the fact that there has been significantly less print media coverage of the Bersih 3.0 rally and its aims, compared with last year’s event.

Seeking dedicated, highly-motivated individuals to be part of our media monitoring project in the upcoming general election!

We, the undersigned civil society organisations, condemn the irresponsible “Utusan Malaysia” reporting over an alleged call from Christian pastors to change Malaysia’s “official religion” to Christianity.

We are outraged at the “guilty” verdict and the impending sanctions by the newspaper Utusan Malaysia on Ha’ta Wahari, president of the National Union of Journalists of Malaysia, for supposedly “tarnishing the image” of the paper and for revealing “company secrets.”

We are equally outraged by the cyber-attacks on the independent online outfits Malaysiakini and the Sarawak Report.

IT’S commonly accepted that the media play a role in shaping public perception. But how exactly does that happen? Here’s an analysis of Utusan Malaysia’s coverage on two issues: the controversy over Interlok, and the request for the dawn azan’s volume to be lowered at a mosque in Kampung Kerinchi, Kuala Lumpur.

Siasatan dalaman “Utusan Malaysia” hari ini terhadap wartawan kanan Ha’ta Wahari tidak dapat berlangsung di ibu pejabat akhbar tersebut di Kuala Lumpur setelah setengah jam ia bermula apabila perselisihan berlaku mengenai kelayakan wakil tertuduh.

International Federation of Journalists code of ethics: “No journalist should be directed by an employer or any person acting on behalf of the employer to commit any act or thing that the journalist believes would breach his or her professional ethics, whether defined by a code of ethics adopted by journalists collected at national level or that would infringe the international Code of Principles for the Conduct of Journalism as adopted by the IFJ. No journalist can be discipclined in any way for asserting his or her rights to act according their conscience.”