Sachini Kavindya

With the time to create your next vision board quickly approaching, many journalists are starting to consider what new career goal they want to take on in 2023. Check out these competitions, fellowships and festivals with deadlines in December that are open to journalists globally to get a head start. Media innovation fellowship Deadline: December […]

Reporting on mental health is not as simple as repeating facts — it also requires the painstaking task of handling sensitive information and stories. Responsible reporting on suicide, for example, can help prevent suicide contagion, also called the Werther Effect. Mental ill-health is often a consequence of larger systemic issues. It is, furthermore, impossible to report on mental

Facebook owner Meta has been fined €265m (£230m) by Irish regulators. The Data Protection Commission opened an inquiry into Meta in April 2021, after data from 533 million people in 106 countries was published on a hacking forum having been “scraped” from Facebook years earlier. The DPC said Meta had breached Europe’s General Data Protection Regulation

2022-11-14. News Corp Australia has passed the one million digital subscribers milestone. Digital subscribers at News Corp Australia as of September 30, 2022, were 1,012,000 compared to 897,000 in the prior year. In this opinion piece, News Corp Australasia’s executive chairman Michael Miller says the achievement reflects Australians’ thirst for trusted journalism. It confirms WAN-IFRA’s

Elon Musk’s intentions regarding the fate of Twitter accounts is fuelling concern about the prospect of increasingly arbitrary decisions. Reporters Without Borders (RSF) urges the billionaire to read the clear and precise recommendations in the latest report from the Forum on Information and Democracy : Accountability regimes for social networks accounts and their users. By letting

After Ah Hla Lay Thuzar, a Burmese journalist better known by the pseudonym of Ma Thuzar, received a two-year jail sentence today, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) calls on UN officials tasked with monitoring Myanmar to take tougher action to get the leaders of its military junta to stop normalising the terror they have been imposing on

After Fact Focus, a Pakistani investigative website was rendered totally or partially inaccessible on 21 November when it reported that the army chief’s family had become extremely rich in recent years, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) calls on Pakistan’s civilian authorities to ensure respect for its citizens’ right to journalism that serves the public interest. “This

From the alarming consequences of the climate crisis, to government corruption around environmental crimes and the influence of organized crime on rainforest deforestation, there is no shortage of issues for journalists to cover when it comes to the environment. More and more journalists today are becoming environmental reporters, as a result, in what was once considered a niche field.

For the next month, much of the world’s attention will be focused on Qatar, for the 2022 FIFA Men’s World Cup. Covering such a major event can be exciting — and not just for sports journalists. With an international competition of this prominence, media coverage always goes beyond the actual games being played. Here are