(Ijnet) Jordanian journalists are invited to submit works on the environment and climate change to the "Create your future with your own hands" competition. Deadline: September 15. Submissions can be short videos, radio segments and online reports. The competition is being run by Deutsche Welle, Normina TV, Al Balad Radio and Jordan Days website.

(Press Gazette) United Kingdom Press Card Authority chairman Mike Granatt has expressed concerns about a “press pass” being sold by a citizen journalism website. Granatt said that his organisation, which oversees the voluntary press card scheme run by the news industry, is to make contact with police forces and other organisations across the country to alert them to the unofficial card.

(Knight Centre) Colombian Carina Solano Padilla received the Hellman/Hammett grant, from the organization Human Rights Watch, for journalists and writers who have faced political persecution, reported the news agency DPA. [..]

(Guardian) A Swedish newspaper has claimed that Wikileaks is not fully protected by Swedish law and so it could be vulnerable to demands to reveal its sources. According to an article in Sydsvenskan, there are doubts about the validity of Wikileaks' belief in the protections offered under Swedish legislation.

The Federation of African Journalists (FAJ), the African Regional Organisation of the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ), condemns in the strongest terms possible the South Africa’s proposed Protection of Information Bill (the Secrecy Law), terming it a foremost threat to freedom of information and freedom of expression in South Africa. [..]

(The Hoot) The Indian Express and The Times of India (dated Aug, 7) carry an appeal from the Sahara India Pariwar to stop the recent “continuous and negative” media coverage of Delhi Commonwealth Games, 2010. [..]

(Press Gazette) Journalist Chris Wheal is to meet representatives from the Press Complaints Commission next week for talks on how the press could modify its behaviour to improve the reporting of deaths. [..]

(CJR) Many marine scientists lack complete faith in a federal report tracking the fate of the roughly 4.9 million barrels of oil that spilled into the Gulf of Mexico this summer, the media have found. The report, released Wednesday, found that roughly 74 percent of the oil spilled into the Gulf of Mexico this summer has been collected, skimmed, burned, dispersed, and other means. [..]

(Ijnet) The Forum for African Investigative Reporters will hold its 2010 West African regional conference in Benin on August 30 and 31. Under the theme "Investigative journalism in West Africa: Challenges and obstacles," the conference will discuss investigative journalism and the public and showcase recent West African investigations. [..]

(Journalism.co.uk) Hyperlinked articles will be considered as context in a defamation case currently being brought against the Spectator and its journalist Stephen Pollard. Lawyers for the defendents have argued that the content hyperlinked to in the allegedly defamatory article makes it clear that the piece does not refer to the claimant, Islam Expo Ltd.