2021-09-15. India went under the COVID-19 imposed lockdown on March 24, 2020. The country’s digital news ecosystem witnessed a sudden surge in traffic that sustained for several months after. News companies were forced to adapt to technology and mould their digital business strategies, which until then was a periphery business contributing to only a miniscule […]
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Responding to Egyptian President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi’s announcement of a five-year plan for improving respect for human rights, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) says Sisi should release the 28 journalists currently detained arbitrarily in Egypt if he wants to show that his government is sincere in its desire to improve the situation. President Sisi’s speech last weekend proclaiming
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A Singaporean news website, The Online Citizen (TOC), is being made to pay for its independence, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) says. Two weeks after being ordered to pay the city state’s prime minister massive damages in a defamation suit, it is now threatened with imminent closure for allegedly violating media funding legislation. If nothing is
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The International Day of Democracy provides an opportunity to review the state of democracy in the world. Democracy is as much a process as a goal, and only with the full participation of and support by the international community, national governing bodies, civil society and individuals, can the ideal of democracy be made into a
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2021-09-14. Thirty Polish media have today launched a ‘Journalists at the border’ campaign in response to a state of emergency which restricts journalists from accessing the length of the Polish-Belarusian border – here is their statement. The state of emergency, introduced by the government, on the entire length of the Polish-Belarusian border, rules out the
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2021-09-14. As countries ramp up privacy regulations, developing data privacy-compliant platforms will help publishers avoid hefty fines while rewarding them with users who trust them and will consent to letting their information be used for advertising and other purposes. During WAN-IFRA’s recent Digital Media Asia conference, Ian Hocking of the South China Morning Post and
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Reporters Without Borders (RSF) calls for the immediate release of Alaa Abdel Fattah, an Egyptian blogger who has been imprisoned for the past two years and whose mental state is now alarming. The Egyptian authorities will be held responsible for whatever happens to him, RSF says. “For the first time, I found Alaa in a
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Reporters Without Borders (RSF) calls on the Indian authorities to intervene to end the hate campaigns against Rana Ayyub, a journalist who is the bugbear of the Hindu nationalist movement, after another spurious criminal complaint against her set off a new wave of online harassment, intimidation and even physical threats. For the past three years,
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Reporters Without Borders (RSF) declared a “press freedom state of emergency” in Poland during a visit to Warsaw last week, condemning a broadcasting law amendment that threatens TVN, the country’s leading independent broadcast media group, and the arbitrary restrictions on press freedom that the government has imposed as part of state of emergency along the
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Reporters Without Borders (RSF) and the Samir Kassir Foundation call on the Lebanese authorities to reverse their decision to deny a Reuters journalist entry without giving any reason, which sets a disturbing precedent for the future of journalism in Lebanon. Reuters and Suleiman Al-Khalidi, the news agency’s chief correspondent for Jordan and Syria, are still waiting to
