Everything we know is changing in the age of big tech and big data, except this: journalism must find a way to survive and many forces are trying to make sure that does not happen
History is repeating itself in Cuba, Nicaragua and Venezuela, writes veteran investigative journalist Carlos Chamarro on World News Day, who runs a Nicaraguan media outlet from Costa Rica. Dictators are criminalising the press
TBIJ offers pointers on how to deal with legal letters that aim to scare reporters into retracting or toning down work
On World Press Freedom Day, we highlight some of the findings from the latest World Press Trends Outlook published by the World Association of News Publishers
Mass job layoffs are hindering independent journalism and the ability of newsrooms to hold power to account
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
Encrypted technology protects journalists and their sources in a war-torn country whilst facilitating remote reporting
Co-founder and executive editor of Byline Times talks about how a media organisation’s funding model affects its freedom to report
What can be done to stave off political interference and intimidation of journalists?
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
IPI provides up to €15k of funding and expert coaching for media ventures that can better serve diverse audiences
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
Journalism is threatened by the fake content industry, as political actors increasingly use disinformation campaigns to undermine reporters
Sustaining community reporting is more than a money question - it also needs connections, diversity and training
"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"
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
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
The press freedom champion shares insights on holding power to account amid relentless harassment and misinformation on social media
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
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
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 [...]
Hugh Grant, Tom Watson MP and president of the National Union of Journalists Donnacha Delong speak at a rally calling for media reform
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'
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
The International Federation of Journalists describes 2011 as "another bloody year for media"
The founder of independent Russian newspaper Chernovik has been killed, as has a journalist working for a TV station in Somali
Press freedom organisation Reporters Without Borders announced this week that its secretary-general Jean-François Julliard will step down on 31 January
Today is also the inaugural International Day to End Impunity
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.
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 [...]
WAN-IFRA's new president calls for self regulation of the press to maintained in the wake of the phone-hacking scandal
BBC issues public statement after journalists' families arrested and harassed in Iran
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 [...]
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. [...]
BBC Central Asian Service journalist Urunboy Usmonov has been detained by Tajikistan authorities since June 13
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
Two Bahraini bloggers handed long jail sentences, according to Reporters Without Borders
It believed Mexican journalist Miguel Angel Lopez Velasco, who wrote for Notiver, has been shot dead along with his wife and son
Andrey Pochobut of Polish newspaper GazetaWyborcza, faces a prison sentence for defamation and 'insulting the president' of Belarus
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 [...]
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