Jordan: Arab Spring clears way for press freedoms
 Al Arabiya - The Associated Press, Amman - The Arab Spring uprisings that toppled four Arab leaders have forced Mideast governments to allow more freedom of expression and of the press, Jordan’s prime minister said Monday, but critics charged that Jordan itself is not doing enough.
Abdullah Ensour told a meeting of the Vienna-based International Press Institute, “The past few years have been very crucial to our region, because the Arab Spring has opened new horizons and created more demands” for wider freedoms of expression and the press.
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United States - Recommendations for a federal law protecting journalists’ sources
RSF - The U.S. Department of Justice’s seizure of Associated Press phone records has highlighted the urgency of the need for a shield law guaranteeing the protection of journalists’ sources at the federal level in the United States, a need that Reporters Without Borders has been emphasizing for years.
Following reports that the White House is supporting the reintroduction of a proposed federal shield law in the Senate, Reporters Without Borders has drafted detailed recommendations for such a law.
Haia chief slams Twitter’s misuse
 Arabnews - Jeddah: Ibrahim Naffee - Social networks, particularly Twitter, should not take over peoples’ lives, the head of the Commission for the Promotion of Virtue and Prevention of Vice has said.
“Those who resort to social networks and microblogs, especially Twitter, as their core life component, have lost their lives and their afterlife,” Abdul Lateef Al-Asheikh was quoted as saying in local newspapers. “Twitter has become a platform for those with no platform,” he said.
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Awaiting a Modern Press Law in Qatar
 By RICHARD J. ROTH
The New York Times - Doha (Qatar) - Journalists self-censor, lest they be accused of violating that press law. ///// In that law, defamation is a criminal matter, not a civil matter as it is in most places. ///// Journalists often censor themselves and print nothing: not the name of a market caught selling tainted meat (…) not the name of a person convicted of a crime. ///// During the “Arab Spring”, there are others provisions of the press law, including a prohibition on printing anything that “may instigate the overthrow of the regime in the country (…) or damage the supreme interest of the state”.
Forum discusses media’s role
 Arabnews - RIYADH: ABDUL HANNAN TAGO - The ingredients of success and the causes of failure are the main topics of the 2nd Media and Public Relations Forum (MPRF) being held here under the aegis of the Minister of Higher Education Khalid Al-Anqari.
Researchers, media personalities, practitioners and professionals from within and outside the Kingdom are participating in the event.
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