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
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Many warn of the tool’s potential to be a misinformation superspreader, capable of instantly producing news articles, blogs and political speeches. ChatGPT, a new artificial intelligence application by OpenAI, has captured the imagination of the internet. Some have suggested it’s the largest technological advancement in modern history. In a recent interview, Noam Chomsky called it “basically high
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SLPI is organizing a series of training programs for journalists on how to report environmental issues in an effective manner. Registrations are now open for the training program to be held in the Western Province in Tamil language on 20-21 February.Interested applicants can now register via the link: https://forms.gle/hmK3gVU6uGy7WtQPADeadline: 14 February 2023 சூழலியல் ஊடகவியல் பயிற்சி திட்டம்:
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2023-01-19. We always tell people to be where your audience is. Right now, 755 million people are on TikTok. smartocto spoke to Dutch journalist and well-known TikToker Marieke Kuypers about why the platform holds so much potential for newsrooms. And what you can do to be relevant. by WAN-IFRA External Contributor info@wan-ifra.org | January 30, 2023 By
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2023-01-30. The Quint, The Hindu, Prothom Alo, Indian Express emerged as the 2022 South Asian Digital Media Awards winners, from more than 100 entries from news publishers across South Asia. by Vincent Peyrègne vincent.peyregne@wan-ifra.org | January 30, 2023 The World Association of News Publishers (WAN-IFRA) announced the winners of the South Asian Digital Media Awards
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Are you still trying to figure out what new skill you want to learn this year or what will be the next step in your career in 2023? Our list of fellowships, grants and workshops has you covered, and they’re all open to journalists globally: Mobile film festivalDeadline: February 4, 2023 The Mobile Filmmaker’s International
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Reporters Without Borders (RSF) and the Society for Civil Rights (GFF) have filed a second constitutional complaint in Germany against the Federal Intelligence Service Act (BND Act). Despite a revision of the law in spring 2021 both organisations hold that journalists are inadequately protected from surveillance by the BND, especially in their confidential communications with
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Two journalists of the Helsingin Sanomat newspaper were found guilty of having revealed state secrets in the country ranked fifth in the World Press Freedom Index. Reporters Without Borders (RSF) deeply regrets the conviction which risks further strengthening the self-censorship effect on journalists covering national security issues. In a trial unprecedented in Finland’s post-war history,
On July 25, 2021, as Tunisia grappled with months of political, sanitary and economic crises, Tunisian president Kaïs Saied suspended the parliament and dismissed the head of government. Saied utilized Article 80 of the 2014 Tunisian Constitution, which grants the president the power to take “the measures imposed by the state of emergency” in case
Five days after Cameroonian radio station director Martinez Zogo’s abduction, his body was found near the capital yesterday (22 January), bearing the signs of probable torture before he was killed. Reporters Without Borders (RSF) calls on the authorities to do everything possible to identify those responsible and bring them to justice, and to protect journalists
