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Reporters Without Borders (RSF) is alarmed and outraged by US journalist Danny Fenster’s arrest as he was about to leave Myanmar on 24 May and calls for his immediate and unconditional release. Colleagues think he is being held incommunicado in Yangon’s Insein prison, where journalists are often mistreated and tortured. The managing editor of the […]

Since assuming office three months ago, Radio Television Hong Kong (RTHK) Director of Broadcasting Patrick Li has already censored hundreds of hours of content. Reporters Without Borders (RSF) urges the Hong Kong government to dismiss him at once and stop interfering with the public broadcaster’s editorial independence. Since 1st March, the day Patrick Li took

In response to the diversion of a Ryanair flight carrying 126 passengers, including Belarusian journalist Raman Pratasevich, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has formally asked Lithuania’s prosecutors to investigate Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko and any other person they identify for criminal hijacking. Читать на русском / Read in Russian In a letter sent today to the

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) is appalled by Ethiopia’s expulsion of Simon Marks, an Addis Ababa-based reporter for the New York Times and Bloomberg News, just weeks after it suspended his accreditation. The Ethiopian authorities must stop constantly intimidating journalists, RSF said. This is the first time in years that Ethiopia has expelled a foreign reporter.

The public service media in the Czech Republic and Slovenia are resisting political pressure, including accusations of criminality and threats to funding, but their editorial and financial independence is clearly in danger. Reporters Without Borders (RSF) calls on politicians in these two countries to safeguard public media independence in accordance with Council of Europe recommendations.

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) calls for the immediate release of Aleksandr Dorogov and Yan Katelevskiy​, two Russian journalists specialising in investigating police corruption who have been detained for nearly ten months and whose pretrial detention has just been extended. This judicial persecution is unacceptable and must stop, RSF says. Читать на русском / Read in

Lockdowns have forced people to spend the past year and more learning, working, and socialising online – but in many countries, women have been missing out. They are less likely than men to have access to the internet in nearly every region of the world, according to the latest figures from UN agency the International

Applications are now called for the online workshop series titled “Digital Transition of Traditional Media”. Journalists and interested applicants are invited to fill out the application form on or before 30th May 2021. Scan the QR code or click on the link  https://cutt.ly/Xb8EL8i to register  

2021-05-21. Patrick Appel, Director of Research at Piano, shares four key lessons from the subscription surge publishers experienced during the COVID-19 pandemic | sponsored content Piano’s recently published Subscription Performance Benchmark Report explores the learnings from a year in which news publishers saw their subscriptions surge, due in part to COVID-19 and in part to