“If you are eager for more information, you should appeal to our boss for permission”. These words are too familiar to Mongolian journalists seeking information from civil servants. This phenomenon will hopefully disappear with the adoption of Draft Law on Freedom of Information.

What kind of changes has the appointment of Executive director of Mongolian Public Radio and Television brought about? From May 2006 Mongolian Public Radio is going to broadcast innovated programs, while Mongolian Public Television will launch its innovated programs in September. Notably, the year 2006 was proclaimed as a year of the English language.

Open Society Forum NGO organized the workshop on Quality Management in Public Service Broadcasting in Ulaanbaatar from 7 to 9 May 2006. The seminar was attended by round 30 people, including the management of Mongolian National Public Radio and Television /MNPRT/

The Mongolian media has changed rapidly and deeply over the last decade in the democratic transition. The development of journalism has been heavily influenced by whichever party has been in power as the major political parties, MPRP and Democratic Party, took turns to rule, ending thee century with a coalition government.

Ulan Bator Monday 8th, Tuesday 9th and Wednesday 10th of May, 2006

Monday 8th of March

The 55 th birthday of the Confederation of Mongolian journalists (CMJ) was marked on May 5 with a press conference, ceremony, concert and banquet.

Country / Topic: Mongolia
Date: 05 May 2006
Source: Globe International NGO
Person: journalist Sh

Country / Topic: Mongolia
Date: 08 May 2006
Source: Globe International NGO
Person: journalists B

Last Thursday, if you called the MM News Agency at /97611/ 300771, without your of the news agency knowing it your conversation would it your conversation would have been heard by somebody in a room of the financial collection department of the Public Radio and Television. This blatantly illegal act of wiretapping was done under the order of N.Altanzul, chief of the department.

Globe International NGO in cooperation with ZORIG Foundation has organized a round table Against Censorship!!! on 2 May of 2006 at the meeting hall of the National Legal Center of Mongolia.