Sachini Kavindya

2021-11-09. Melanie Deziel, a leading expert on native advertising and branded content in the US and author of the book “The Content Duel Framework: How to Generate Unlimited Story Ideas,” recently joined WAN-IFRA’s Digital Media Europe conference to discuss the future of native advertising. For many people in the industry, native advertising revealed its true […]

2021-11-08. In April, the European Union announced a tentative deal to achieve carbon neutrality by the year 2050. While the move will affect many businesses including publishing houses and production processes, the world has come to the consensus that climate action is urgent and vital. This means media houses earning the bulk of their revenue

2021-11-05. Journalists’ frequent lack of confidence to engage with numbers is concerning at this time of pandemic and climate crisis. How can newsrooms address this challenge? “I’m not a numbers person” is a statement I have heard journalists make more often than I care to remember. I even read it this year in Caitlin Moran’s compelling

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) Germany has initiated legal action against the German intelligence agencies with the aim of curtailing their ability to hack into journalists’ digital communications and thereby spy on their activities. This is an issue that is equally crucial in France. RSF Germany has brought the lawsuits jointly with Whistleblower-Netzwerk, a Berlin-based NGO,

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) calls on Togo’s media regulator, the High Authority for Broadcasting and Communication (HAAC), to rescind the disproportionate and arbitrary suspensions of two publications that it has ordered in the past month. The latest victim is La Symphonie, a bimonthly that has been banned from publishing for two months. The HAAC ordered the

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) voices support for Sergey Savelyev, the whistleblower responsible for last month’s massive leak of videos exposing mistreatment, torture and sexual abuse in Russian prisons. The Russian authorities must drop all charges against this Belarusian citizen, who has fled to France, while the French authorities must grant his asylum request, RSF says.

What with journalists being arrested, state media placed under military control and the Internet disconnected, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) condemns the clampdown by the armed forces in Sudan and its serious consequences for the freedom to report the news and for access to information. “Military forces stormed Sudanese Radio and Television headquarters in Omdurman [the twin city

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) calls on the Turkish authorities not to expel a Syrian exile journalist currently detained in Turkey over a humorous video, because his repatriation would expose him to extremely serious and probably deadly reprisals at the hands of the Syrian authorities. Majed Shama, a journalist working for the Syrian exile TV channel Orient News,

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) calls for an independent investigation into the murder of Nazim Jokhiyo, an amateur video reporter based near Karachi, the capital of southern Pakistan’s Sindh province, who posted videos about illegal hunting trips for Arab dignitaries from the Gulf. All those behind his murder must be identified and brought to justice, RSF

2021-11-04. Journalists must collaborate when working on climate change stories to better serve readers, said Gustavo Felairos, environment investigations editor at the Pulitzer Center’s Rainforest Investigations Network (RIN). Speaking at a session on climate change investigations at the 12th Global Investigative Journalism Conference (#GIJC21), Felairos explained that transnational projects are key because of the very