Bob Webb's spring trip to Ukraine was a journalist's dream. Coming in the wake of the Orange Revolution, it meant he could assess it and try to help move it forward.

Peter Harland, former Managing Editor of Times Newspapers, London, and good friend of the ICF, died on 6th June 2005. The following tribute was given by Sir Harold Evans, former Editor of The Sunday Times

Four ICF colleagues have received honours during 2004.

On 9th March 2004 in Edinburgh, Scotland, Bernard Margueritte, president of the International Communications Forum, addressed a one-day media conference organised by The Royal Society of Edinburgh.

The ICF partnered Caux Initiatives for Business at the Caux Conference Centre in Switzerland from 11 to 15 July with the theme of ‘Globalisation - As If People Really Mattered.’

Meeting in Dublin from 8 to 11 June, 2003, the World Association of Newspapers (WAN) attracted 1200 delegates from 85 countries representing some two thirds of the world’s daily and weekly press. At a Round Table on “Media under Threat - Press Freedom Challenged” William Porter was a Panel Speaker with the subject “Sensationalism and the Erosion of Journalism”.

Resolution passed at ICF meeting in Cape Town, April 5-9

One hundred and six journalists from 26 countries from five continents, met this week to address … “Changing media in changing societies.”

Here are some extracts from coverage of the ICF’s successful Forum in Cape Town in the South African media:

A message from the ICF's President and Founder President: