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FIFA - WAN amicable settlement : soccer World Cup restrictions lifted for web media

Posted by Dominique Lewis Tuohy on March 13, 2006 at 10:41 AM

World football’s governing body, FIFA, and the World Association of Newspapers, WAN, today announced that they had reached agreement to lift all restrictions on digital publication of photographs of the 2006 FIFA World Cup in Germany.

WAN has been negotiating with FIFA for seven months to overturn restrictions made by FIFA to web coverage of the soccer World Cup and ensure the free flow of information concerning the event to the media and by extension the public at large (see previous postings - see sources).
  


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The American Society of Newspaper Editors joins the press' fight against FIFA

Posted by John Burke on March 3, 2006 at 11:34 AM
The American Society of Newspaper Editors has delivered an open letter to the president of FIFA, Joseph S. Blatter, concerning the restrictions the international football organization is placing on the press in terms of its right to publish news about the upcoming World Cup. ASNE president and Sacramento Bee executive editor Rick Rodriguez said, "(The restrictions) strike at the very heart of press freedom."


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