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Albania’s prime minister has not yet undertaken to amend or withdraw a draconian “anti-defamation” package that is still pending in parliament and continues to hang like the sword of Damocles over the heads of the country’s journalists. Reporters Without Borders (RSF) urges the European institutions to demand clear guarantees by Albania that are consistent with […]

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has provided the Lithuanian prosecutor-general’s office in Vilnius with detained Belarusian journalist Raman Pratasevich’s three forced confessions as additional evidence in support of the complaint RSF filed on 25 May accusing the Belarusian president of “hijacking an aircraft with terrorist intent.” Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has provided the Lithuanian prosecutor-general’s office

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) calls for the immediate release of Le Van Dung, an independent Vietnamese TV reporter who was arrested last week after more than a month in hiding. He is facing up to 20 years in connection with his reporting, which often tackled corruption and land confiscation. Reported by several state media outlets,

2021-07-06. One in two women has suffered sexual harassment in the workplace in Africa. One in two. Allow that to sink in – and then consider that only 30 per cent of these cases are reported. New research from Women in News on sexual harassment in African media organisations highlights the scale of the problem

2021-07-05. The British publisher changed its focus from reader acquisition to reader retention about a year and a half ago, leading it to revise its subscription offers and strengthen its customer relations management. When Claire Overstall joined the Economist in 2019, the publisher’s reader revenue strategy was mostly based on growing by acquisition, which meant

It’s hard to sugar coat this fact: in a 2019 survey of 108 editors-in-chief in German regional media, only 8 were women, or to put it another way, 7.4%. A session at the recent Newsroom Summit delved into this issue. (main photo courtesy of ProQuote) When German media equality organisation ProQuote looked more widely at

2021-07-02. The culture of working in silos has often been a major stumbling block for traditional news media houses in their digital transition process. The changing times demand collaborative work of multiple departments converging to a single goal. The Wall Street Journal has made this possible through its MACU-focused approach. MACU stands for Members, Audiences,

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) condemns targeted violence by Palestinian security forces against many journalists covering the past week of protests against the murder of a well-known critic of Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas. The authorities must not tolerate any violation of the freedom to inform, RSF said. While covering the demonstrations, which have been marked