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Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has compiled an account of how controversial Cameroonian businessman Jean-Pierre Amougou Belinga and two other high-profile persons were arrested early today (6 February) in connection with outspoken radio journalist Martinez Zogo’s murder on 17 January. The preparations began shortly after midnight at gendarmerie headquarters in the capital, Yaoundé. For the next few hours, […]

Dell is to lay off about 6,650 workers because of the decline in demand for personal computers. The job cuts are expected to affect about 5% of its global workforce. The company faced tough market conditions with an uncertain future and its previous cost-cutting measures were no longer enough, co-chief operating officer Jeff Clarke wrote

As an Arthur F. Burns Fellow from Germany, I was able to look behind the scenes at the newsletter start-up 6AM City for two months. This is how clever curating can create a multimillion-dollar business:  Hyperlocal, constructive journalism — that is how the founders of the newsletter start-up 6AM City want to fight against the death of local news

By Zoe Kleinman Technology editor Google is launching an Artificial Intelligence (AI) powered chatbot called Bard to rival ChatGPT. Bard will be used by a group of testers before being rolled out to the public in the coming weeks, the firm said. Bard is built on Google’s existing large language model Lamda, which one engineer

2023-02-02. On International Women’s Day last year, Malaysia’s The Star kicked off a year-long collaborative initiative to profile key issues affecting women in Asia. The aim? To position stories around the key challenges facing women on the news agenda throughout the year – not just as a key calendar highlight. by Lucinda Jordaan lucinda.jordaan@wan-ifra.org | February 2,

Maria Ressa’s recent acquittal of four tax charges, after five years of legal harassment led by the State, represents a rare victory for press freedom in the Philippines. Advocates for Ressa hope it signals a new direction for recently elected President Ferdinand Marcos Jr., away from the hardline authoritarian policies of the previous regime of Rodrigo Duterte.

Image:Police at a court in Kigali, Rwanda, on September 14, 2020. Three YouTube-based Iwacu TV journalists detained since October 2018, were acquitted in Kigali and released on October 5, 2022. (Reuters/Jean Bizimana) Your support this year helped sustain CPJ’s work and mission at a time when journalists across the globe face threats while doing their

Photo: Siddique Kappan was arrested while travelling in Uttar Pradesh state in 2020 Indian journalist Siddique Kappan has been released from prison more than two years after his arrest while travelling to report on an alleged rape. He was arrested in October 2020 in Uttar Pradesh state, where a young Dalit woman had died after she was