Sachini Kavindya

The Hold the Line Coalition (HTL) welcomes Philippine Court of Tax Appeals verdict, which has acquitted on Wednesday 18 January Nobel laureate Maria Ressa and Rappler, the news organization she founded, of tax evasion in four of seven cases brought by the government. If they had failed to defend the charges, Maria Ressa could have […]

News globally is still largely dominated by men. Luba Kassova, a writer, researcher and audience strategist, details this imbalance in a recent solutions-oriented report titled From Outrage to Opportunity: How to Include the Missing Perspectives of Women of All Colors in News Leadership and Coverage, commissioned by The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. The report focuses on India,

There were more than 200,000 child rights abuse cases in Nigeria in 2020, according to the National Human Right Commission (NHRC). Today, many girls in Niger State, Nigeria have chosen to remain silent about the sexual abuse they’ve experienced, often due to stigmatization. In some cases, too, the perpetrators are relatives. In September, Crusaders Radio,an independent radio

2023-01-18. Charged with four counts of “alleged wilful and unlawful failure to supply correct and accurate information” in relation to investments and tax filings dating from 2015, Rappler and Maria Ressa were finally acquitted on Wednesday in a verdict handed down by the Philippine Court of Tax Appeals. by Andrew Heslop andrew.heslop@wan-ifra.org | January 18, 2023 Collectively

2023-01-18. Eighty-six journalists and media workers were killed around the world in 2022 – one every four days, according to UNESCO data – highlighting the grave risks and vulnerabilities that journalists face in the course of their work. by WAN-IFRA External Contributor info@wan-ifra.org | January 18, 2023 By Lucinda Jordaan The spike in killings in 2022 marks

Microsoft will cut 10,000 jobs in the latest round of staff redundancies to hit the tech industry. It will affect up to 5% of its global workforce and cost the business $1.2bn (£972m) in severance and reorganisation costs. Microsoft chief executive Satya Nadella said that while customer spending had grown during Covid, more people were

Stress and anxiety have long been prevalent among news professionals. A Columbia Journalism Review article in 1999 noted that nearly 40% of editors in the U.S. “reported job-related health problems ranging from insomnia to alcoholism and hypertension.” There was no social media at the time, and few newsrooms were even online back then. Still, media professionals

By Zoe Kleinman Technology editor It is three months since Elon Musk swept into Twitter’s San Francisco headquarters – and the company has barely been out of the headlines. We have talked a lot about his opinions about the social network and some of his more controversial business decisions, such as laying off 50% of

Mr. Sivakumar Nadesan, the Managing Director of the Virakesari publishers by Express Newspapers, Chairman of the Sri Lanka Press Institute and the Press Complaints Commission of Sri Lanka received the Pravasi Bharatiya Samman Award from Her Excellency Droupadi Murmu the President of India at the 17th Pravasi Bharatiya Divas 2023 Valedictory Session held in Indore,

ar-right extremism is on the rise globally. Knowing how to investigate and report on the movement and its actors is paramount for journalists today. The January 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol in 2021, for instance, was heavily influenced by two of America’s most well-known far-right extremist groups, the Proud Boys and Oath Keepers. Prior to the storming of the Capitol, members