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Ahead of the Winter Olympics in Beijing, RSF report The Great Leap Backwards of Journalism in China now available in 10 languages

As the 2022 Winter Olympics in Beijing approaches, Reporters Without Borders’ breakthrough report The Great Leap Backwards of Journalism in China, originally published in English and French, is now also available in Arabic, Chinese, German, Japanese, Korean, Mongolian, Portuguese, Russian, and Spanish. On the occasion of the 24th Winter Olympic Games, starting on 4th February 2022 […]

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Joe Rogan pledges to try harder after Neil Young Spotify row

Joe Rogan has pledged to try harder to offer more balanced views on his podcast, after he was criticised by Neil Young and Joni Mitchell for helping to spread Covid misinformation. The Canadian musicians asked to have their music pulled from the streaming platform as a result. Spotify has since said it is working to add

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2022 Winter Olympics in China: RSF and NGO coalition urge for increased diplomatic boycott

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) and a coalition of 242 organisations call for more nations to join the diplomatic boycott of the 2022 Winter Olympics in response to the Chinese government’s human rights abuses. In a joint statement published on 27th January 2022, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) and a coalition of 242 human rights NGOs urged

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UK: British citizen found guilty of conspiring to kill exiled Pakistani blogger

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) welcomes the jury decision finding a British citizen guilty of conspiring to kill exiled Pakistani blogger Ahmad Waqass Goraya. The jury’s guilty verdict could serve as a landmark judgement in establishing accountability for transnational threats against journalists, which are far too often perpetuated with impunity. Following a two-week trial at the

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After coup, Burkina Faso’s junta must let journalists work, says RSF

After Lt. Col. Paul-Henri Damiba, the head of the military junta now governing Burkina Faso, failed to give any formal undertaking to protect press freedom in an address to the nation yesterday, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) urges the military to allow journalists to work freely and safely. A journalist was injured and two others were

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Ailing reporter held without trial for nearly three months in central Nigeria

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) condemns the persecution of Luka Binniyat, a journalist who has been detained in central Nigeria’s Kaduna state for more than 80 days pending a trial that keeps on being postponed although his health is worsening by the day. A reporter for Epoch Times, a conservative international daily based in the United States,

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Global study analyzing sexual harassment in newsrooms released by WAN-IFRA Women in News

2021-01-26. New data from a global study analysing sexual harassment in 20 countries finds, on average, 41% of women media professionals have experienced sexual harassment of some kind in the workplace. Women and gender non-conforming media professionals are almost three and a half times more likely to experience harassment than men. The international study documenting the extent of

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RSF urges multinationals still in Myanmar to stop supporting junta

On the eve of the first anniversary of the 1 February 2021 coup d’état in Myanmar, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) calls on all multinational corporations still providing Myanmar’s military with direct or indirect economic support to follow the example set by energy giants Chevron and Total, which announced on 21 January that they are terminating

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Google slammed over ad-cookie replacement flip-flop

Google’s “indecision” over what system it wants to replace cookies has been criticised by some in the ad industry. It comes as the technology giant said an interest-based user-tracking system, Topics, would now replace its earlier proposal, Floc. One marketing executive said: “This constant indecision does not inspire confidence.” Third-party cookies use people’s browsing history

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