Commonwealth Press Union

The Commonwealth Press Union is an association whose members are newspaper groups (some with several hundred newspapers), newspapers and news agencies in 49 countries of the Commonwealth.

These are represented with the CPU by their proprietors, publishers or senior executives.

The CPU Secretariat has moved

The new address for the CPU Secretariat is: 3rd Floor, 292 Vauxhall Bridge Road, London SW1V 1AE.
New phone number: +44 20 7233 7822 and Fax: +44 20 7828 0660.

New Chairman for CPU India section

Hormusji N Cama, Director, Bombay Samachar, and immediate Past President of the Indian Newspaper Society (INS) has agreed to take over as the new Chairman of the Indian Section of the Commonwealth Press Union (CPU) with immediate effect.

Masi Losi in Australia

Masi Losi, the South African winner of The Canberra Times/CPU Young Photographer prize records his adventures whilst on a four-week attachment with newspapers in Australia.
Click here to read his diary and see his pictures

	The Australian managing director of the Fiji Times newspaper is arrested and ordered to be deported		Ugandan journalists arrested For more stories click here

Ian Cobain, Chief Reporter of London’s Guardian recently delivered a training programme in Trinidad on investigative journalism.
Read his story.

Kenyan journalists form association

Following John Vidal's (Environment Editor, The Guardian, UK) extremely successful training course in Kenya (31 January to 2 February 2007), the journalists have formed the Kenyan Association of Scientific Environmental Journalists.

For dates, click here. Contact jane@cpu.org.uk for further details.

A fairy tale come true
By Andrew Teyie.
When my memoirs are written, my association with Massey College in the University of Toronto will be more than just a footnote.
Click here for more.

First David Astor Journalism Award winners named
Three print journalists in Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda have been recognised for their outstanding potential and named as the first winners of the new David Astor Journalism Awards. Click here for full details.

KCK Award 2007
The Rajasthan Patrika Group is glad to announce the Karpoor Chandra Kulish Award 2007 (KCK Award 2007). Click here for full details.

The stories here were written by former CPU, Harry Brittain or Gordon Fisher Fellows as well as media consultants and journalists who have travelled overseas on behalf of the CPU

A home away from home to remember
By Emmanuel Akli, 2006/7 Gordon Fisher Fellow.
Next to my wedding day, my romance with Massey College was one of the happiest times of my life. Click here for more

Ian Cobain, Chief Reporter of London’s Guardian ran a training course in Trinidad on investigative journalism. His story focuses on the Freedom of Information act.
Read Ian Cobain's story

Reflections on a 1961 Fellowship
To say my 1961 Commonwealth Press Union (CPU) Founder's Fellowship changed my life personally and professionally in many ways, is not to wax lyrical with exaggeration, but simply to state the truth.
Read Jonathon Stone's story

Putting children's health on the news agenda in Pakistan
What a welcome I received in Pakistan. I have run eight courses for CPU in the last decade and I have never been greeted more warmly.
Jeremy Laurance reports

The African paradise ravaged by roses
Lake Naivasha in Kenya is where most of the flowers bought on Valentine's Day are grown. As part of the CPU's environmental reporting course in February, Ochieng' Ogodo and John Vidal filed this report on the ecological and human costs. Read their story.

Carnival, Cocaine & Kidnap
How a CPU course on sensitive reporting found a case study that was all too real. Simon Rogers reports.

Commonwealth Day on 10 March is now the first day of 'Commonwealth Week'
Events, which will be taking place all over the Commonwealth, will be announced and listed on FRIENDS of the Commonwealth website thus creating a 'virtual festival' and encouraging more people to attend the activities. What is being planned in your country?

Let FRIENDS know by emailing edcosta@commonwealth.int.

Other stories

Source: CNIS (Commonwealth News & Information Service)

Educating the teachers

Start me up

Local businesses thrive from Commonwealth loans

Commonwealth launches Education Good Practice Awards

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