Sachini Kavindya

Netanyahu corruption trial sheds light on meddling in Israeli media

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) is appalled by the disturbing and unacceptable practices threatening media independence in Israel that have come to light during the evidentiary stage of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s corruption trial, which began last month and resumed in Jerusalem yesterday. Much of it is focussing on Netanyahu’s’ attempts to manipulate the editorial line […]

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French reporter says he has been kidnapped in northeastern Mali

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) calls on the Malian and French authorities to do everything possible to obtain the release of Olivier Dubois, a French journalist who says he has been kidnapped by an Islamist armed group in Mali. In a 21-second video that was released today, Olivier Dubois says he was kidnapped by the “Support

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Japanese reporter held in Myanmar is charged with “false information”

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) calls on Japan to take advantage of its privileged relationship with Myanmar’s military government to press for the immediate release of Yuki Kitazumi, a Yangon-based Japanese freelance reporter who has been held for the past two and a half weeks and has just been formally charged. Arrested on 18 April, Yuki

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Listed as a “foreign agent”, Russia’s most popular independent website risks disappearing

Haemorrhaging advertisers even since the Russian justice ministry listed it as a “foreign agent,” the news website Meduza has been forced to close bureaux and slash salaries in the past week. Reporters Without Borders (RSF) condemns the listing as a serious violation of media pluralism and urges Russia to repeal its draconian “foreign agents” law.

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Code of Professional Practice (Code of Ethics) of The Editors’ Guild of Sri Lanka adopted by the Press Complaints Commission of Sri Lanka

ශ්‍රී ලංකා කර්තෘ සංසදය – වෘත්තීය ප්‍රතිපත්ති මාලාව இலங்கை பத்திரிகை முறைப்பாட்டு ஆணைக்குழுவினால் நடைமுறைப்படுத்தப்பட்டுள்ள இலங்கை பத்திரிகை ஆசிரியர் சங்கத்தின் செய்தி ஆசிரியர்களுக்கான தொழில் நடைமுறைக்கோவை (ஒழுக்கக்கோவை)Code of Professional Practice (Code of Ethics) of The Editors’ Guild of Sri Lanka adopted by the Press Complaints Commission of Sri Lanka 01. PREAMBLE This code of practice, which is binding on newspaper

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How science journalism accelerated Sueddeutsche Zeitung’s digital subscriptions

2021-05-03. Since the beginning of the pandemic, the German newspaper has seen its digital subscriptions grow by over 60%. A major factor behind this increase is the publisher’s long-term commitment to quality science reporting. The Covid-19 pandemic has made the news publishing environment more challenging in many ways. But the crisis has also highlighted the

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Op-ed urges Benin to end Digital Law threat to journalism

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) is one of the signatories of an op-ed piece published in Benin on World Press Freedom Day calling for an overhaul of the country’s Digital Law, which has been used to throttle free speech and press freedom. Headlined “Digital Law, Trojan horse for press freedom in Benin?” and co-signed by three

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Swedish Reporters Without Borders awards press freedom prize to a Hungarian news site

The Swedish section of Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has awarded its 2021 Press Freedom Prize to the new Hungarian news site telex.hu. The prize was presented during a webinar in Stockholm yesterday, World Press Freedom Day. RSF Sweden’s prize singles out journalists who show courage and independence, qualities that embody the journalistic ideal that RSF

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Congo celebrates World Press Freedom Day by sentencing a journalist to six months in prison

Illegally incarcerated for the past three months, an editor has been sentenced to spend three more months in prison for simple defamation. Reporters Without Borders condemns this unjust action, which is an affront to all Congolese journalists. The sentence handed down to Raymond Malonga shows the level of respect for law and press freedom in

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Mass international solidarity campaign launched in support of Maria Ressa

On World Press Freedom Day 2021, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) and the #HoldTheLine coalition have launched an innovative campaign of solidarity with journalist Maria Ressa, who faces a possible lifetime in prison in the Philippines. A new website (www.holdthelineformariaressa.com) features hundreds of videos from prominent supporters around the world – with a call for public

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