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Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has embarked on an unprecedented project whereby it will monitor and analyse online attacks, threats and violence against the media throughout Brazil’s election campaign. “Systematic monitoring and in-depth analysis of online attacks against the media are essential in order to better understand the digital arena’s role in shaping violence against journalists […]

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) and two Yemeni NGOs – Marsadak and the Insaf Centre –call for the immediate release of three Yemeni journalists, each of whom is being held in one ofthree main warring regions in which Yemen is now divided. One was jailed last month, while theother two have been held for a year

They are hunted down, threatened and forced to disseminate Kremlin propaganda… Six months after Russia launched its invasion of Ukraine, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) is exclusively publishing the accounts of journalists in the south and east of the country who describe what it is like to work under occupation. Russian President Vladimir Putin launched an

Image: Volodymyr Zelenskyy visited Bucha, where he talked to local residents and journalists. Photo by President of Ukraine on Flickr (Public Domain CCO 1.0) As the war in Ukraine continues, the devastation and human cost of the conflict is mounting. But as well as the human toll, there has been a terrifying assault on democratic

A former security chief for Twitter has turned whistleblower and testified that the company misled users and US regulators about gaps in its security. Peiter Zatko also claimed that Twitter underestimated how many fake and spam accounts are on its platform. The accusations could affect a legal battle between Twitter and billionaire Elon Musk, who

For the past six months, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has accompanied and assisted more than 600 journalists covering the war in Ukraine, providing security equipment, financial and psychological assistance, and training in first aid and physical and psychological safety via the Press Freedom Centre it has created in Lviv and Kyiv. Read in Ukrainian /

Technology in journalism is always evolving. From smartphone journalism, to reporting the news on Twitter and TikTok, to data journalism, modern reporters rely on new technology to make their jobs easier and their stories more impactful and engaging. Today, large newsrooms are introducing a new technology, artificial intelligence (AI), to their work. Smaller newsrooms are interested in this tool

In Nigeria, a new wave of student journalists are actively involved in critical journalism. Student reporters are shifting from covering topics like student elections and other school events to reporting on critical issues plaguing the country, while getting published by international outlets. Journalists like Pelumi Salako, Ope Adetayo, Olatunji Olaigbe, Sultan Quadri, Abiodun Jamiu and myself are Nigerian students who have acquired bylines

Thousands of Facebook users around the world reported issues with their news feeds on Wednesday as a glitch appeared to boost posts to celebrity fan pages and groups to the top of timelines. On Downdetector, an outage tracking website, users posted reports of problems between 07:00 and 09:00 BST. Many reacted to the glitch with