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Predictions for journalism 2024: misinformation, online safety and press freedom

New technologies are used to undermine the credibility, security and ability of journalists to do their jobs. Partnerships with tech companies and democratic governments will set new precedents

Posted by Jacob Granger on 19/12/23

New digital platform helps support free press in Sudan

Encrypted technology protects journalists and their sources in a war-torn country whilst facilitating remote reporting

Posted by Marcela Kunova on 21/08/23

Peter Jukes: 'More diversified media ownership is in the public interest'

Co-founder and executive editor of Byline Times talks about how a media organisation’s funding model affects its freedom to report

Posted by Frankie Crew on 16/08/23

Three steps to protect newsrooms from press freedom attacks

What can be done to stave off political interference and intimidation of journalists?

Posted by Jessica White on 05/07/23

Alison Millar, award-winning film-maker, on documentaries and press freedom in Northern Ireland

With her latest documentary, LYRA, we step into the life of esteemed investigative journalist Lyra McKee and what led to her death in 2019 in Derry

Posted by Camille Dupont on 02/06/23

Business model scheme for European media startups launches

IPI provides up to €15k of funding and expert coaching for media ventures that can better serve diverse audiences

Posted by Jacob Granger on 12/05/23

Fiona O'Brien of Reporters Without Borders, on the state of UK press freedom

SLAPPs and abuse of journalists are causing the UK to slip down the ranks of the World Press Freedom Index. But news organisations do have the power to affect change

Posted by Jacob Granger on 05/05/23

RSF Index: Press freedom is "bad" in seven out of ten countries

Journalism is threatened by the fake content industry, as political actors increasingly use disinformation campaigns to undermine reporters

Posted by Jacob Granger on 03/05/23

Local journalists are vital forces in the fight for social justice

Sustaining community reporting is more than a money question - it also needs connections, diversity and training

Posted by Preethi Nallu and Kevin Grant on 19/04/23

BBC journalist Clive Myrie on diversity, impartiality, press freedom and mental health

"I didn’t set out to be a totem for the black community, but if I am encouraging younger black kids to get into this business: that’s wonderful"

Posted by Jacob Granger on 16/03/23

Five questions for every newsroom to ask themselves on World Press Freedom Day

World Press Freedom Day is a reminder of why democracy and a free press matter. But conversations about safety, sustainability and sourcing need to be an all-year priority

Posted by Catherine Edwards on 03/05/22

Rana Ayyub makes it to Perugia: "I don't have the luxury of staying silent"

The Washington Post columnist was nearly stopped by the state from sending her message of solidarity to the journalism community in Perugia. Her powerful keynote is a reminder of the purpose of journalism

Posted by Jacob Granger on 08/04/22

Tip: Nobel Peace Prize winner Maria Ressa's four steps to solidarity in journalism

The press freedom champion shares insights on holding power to account amid relentless harassment and misinformation on social media

Posted by Hilal Seven on 13/12/21

Janine Warner and Jazmín Acuña on fast-tracking media growth in Latin America

The media accelerator Velocidad launched in 2019 to help news startups grow and thrive. We look at its impact in a region where press freedom is under constant threat

Posted by Jacob Granger on 25/11/21

What can be done to support women journalists targeted for doing their jobs?

The Coalition for Women in Journalism is hard at work helping reporters most in danger out of Afghanistan amid the Taliban takeover but many are still in urgent need of help

Posted by Jacob Granger on 25/08/21

Kiran Nazish, founder of CFWIJ, on violence against women journalists

Governments across the world are ramping up orchestrated attacks on women journalists to clamp down on press freedom. Who has the power to create change?

Posted by Jacob Granger on 22/07/21

Investigative journalist apparently ‘unlawfully’ profiled by UK Foreign Office

Britain’s Foreign Office allegedly gathered information on Declassified’s reporter Matt Kennard, before rejecting his freedom of information requests in what appears to be a breach of UK transparency laws

Posted by Declassified UK staff on 17/06/21

How covid-19 has accelerated encroachments on media freedom

On World Press Freedom Day, Damian Radcliffe looks at how governments around the world leveraged the pandemic to undermine public trust in journalism and science

Posted by Damian Radcliffe on 03/05/21

How coronavirus has affected humanitarian journalism

Travel bans meant that newsrooms had to work with local reporters, and bringing humanitarian crises to an already-overwhelmed audience was always going to be a hard sell

Posted by Emily Cole on 24/03/21

Ronson Chan, deputy assignment editor of Stand News, on press freedom in Hong Kong

Because of Hong Kong's administrative status, local media have a unique access to information about China that is widely off-limits to the rest of the world. But new state security laws signal a clampdown on the freedom of the press

Posted by Jacob Granger on 16/10/20

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#wef12 - WAN-IFRA publishes 'report on violence against Mexico's press'

WAN-IFRA has this week published a report called “a death threat to freedom”, which looks at “violence against Mexico’s press”. The report was published on Tuesday (4 September), a day after the organisation’s World Editors Forum presented the Golden Pen of Freedom to Mexican journalist Anabel Hernandez. The report calls on the government to “take [...]

Posted by Rachel Bartlett on 5 September 2012

Hugh Grant: Leveson inquiry has shone 'disinfectant sunlight' into 'infected corners'

Hugh Grant, Tom Watson MP and president of the National Union of Journalists Donnacha Delong speak at a rally calling for media reform

Posted by Sarah Marshall on 18 May 2012

Voice of America: China's Foreign Ministry questioned on Al Jazeera journalist visa issue

Voice of America has published what it says is a transcript of questions put to the spokesman for China's Foreign Ministry, in relation to Al Jazeera English's report that its China correspondent Melissa Chan had her visa renewal application 'refused'

Posted by Rachel Bartlett on 9 May 2012

Index: Hungary faces squeeze on freedoms

Sándor Orbán, the director of the South East European Network for Professionalisation of Media, reports for Index on Censorship on the raft of new laws passed by the ruling Fidesz party and the threat to civil liberties and media freedom

Posted by Joel Gunter on 6 January 2012

Pakistan tops another 2011 journalist death toll

The International Federation of Journalists describes 2011 as "another bloody year for media"

Posted by Rachel Bartlett on 3 January 2012

Journalists shot dead in Somalia and Russia

The founder of independent Russian newspaper Chernovik has been killed, as has a journalist working for a TV station in Somali

Posted by Rachel Bartlett on 19 December 2011

Reporters Without Borders secretary-general to step down in new year

Press freedom organisation Reporters Without Borders announced this week that its secretary-general Jean-François Julliard will step down on 31 January

Posted by Rachel Bartlett on 14 December 2011

Two-year anniversary of massacre of 30 journalists in Philippines

Today is also the inaugural International Day to End Impunity

Posted by Sarah Marshall on 23 November 2011

'Silencing the messenger is all too often the name of the game': Mark Austin speaks at St Bride's

The address given by ITV News at Ten presenter Mark Austin at St Bride's Church yesterday (Wednesday), for the service to commemorate journalists who have died while covering conflicts across the world.

Posted by Rachel Bartlett on 10 November 2011

Index: Take action to end impunity

This coming 23 November will be the second anniversary of the 2009 Maguindanao Massacre in the Phillippines, in which 34 journalists were murdered during election related violence in the country. Last year, on the first anniversary, there was a “global day of action” to commemorate the killings. This year, the second anniversary will also be [...]

Posted by Joel Gunter on 9 November 2011

#wef11: 'News industry is in the vortex of a fast changing world'

WAN-IFRA's new president calls for self regulation of the press to maintained in the wake of the phone-hacking scandal

Posted by Rachel Bartlett on 13 October 2011

BBC news chief calls for pressure on Iran after threats to journalists' families

BBC issues public statement after journalists' families arrested and harassed in Iran

Posted by Sarah Marshall on 5 October 2011

Guardian: How Luke Harding became the reporter Russia hated

The Guardian’s former Moscow correspondent Luke Harding has a lively piece up on his time as the city’s harassed-western-journalist-in-chief. Ahead of the publication of a book by Harding on his quarrels with Russia’s security forces, he describes being intimidated and having his flat regularly broken into, and his deportation and Russia’s u-turn in letting him [...]

Posted by Joel Gunter on 26 September 2011

New York Times: No Justice for Anna Politkovskaya

Yesterday’s New York Times editorial was devoted to the case of murdered Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya. Politkovskaya, who became known for her fearless investigative reporting of social issues in Russia and human rights abuses in Chechnya, was killed in her apartment building in 2006. Five years on, no one has been convicted of her murder. [...]

Posted by Joel Gunter on 14 September 2011

BBC: Detained reporter is 'physically and psychologically frail'

BBC Central Asian Service journalist Urunboy Usmonov has been detained by Tajikistan authorities since June 13

Posted by Rachel Bartlett on 29 June 2011

Index on Censorship: Russian journalist defeats libel claim

Kommersant's political correspondent Oleg Kashin, who spent five days in a coma after an attack, defeated a libel claim after speculating on the identity of his attackers

Posted by Rachel Bartlett on 28 June 2011

Reporters Without Borders: Life sentence for Bahraini blogger

Two Bahraini bloggers handed long jail sentences, according to Reporters Without Borders

Posted by Sarah Marshall on 23 June 2011

BBC and CPJ: Mexican journalist, wife and son shot dead

It believed Mexican journalist Miguel Angel Lopez Velasco, who wrote for Notiver, has been shot dead along with his wife and son

Posted by Rachel Bartlett on 21 June 2011

Index: Polish journalist faces four years in prison for 'insulting the president' of Belarus

Andrey Pochobut of Polish newspaper GazetaWyborcza, faces a prison sentence for defamation and 'insulting the president' of Belarus

Posted by Joel Gunter on 17 June 2011

Reporters Without Borders: Journalist killed in Brazil on World Press Freedom day

Press freedom organisation Reporters Without Borders (RSF) reports that a journalist, Valério Nascimento, was shot and killed in Brazil on Tuesday. The day of the shooting was also the day the world shone a light on the dangers and issues facing journalists across the world, for World Press Freedom day. “Nascimento’s murder, which took place [...]

Posted by Rachel Bartlett on 5 May 2011

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