Sachini Kavindya

As the Iranian regime continues its crackdown on the protests initiated by Mahsa Amini’s death, almost half of all newly arrested journalists are women, including two who are facing the death penalty.  Reporters Without Borders (RSF) calls for immediate action to secure their unconditional release. “The increasing detention of female journalists symbolically reveals the Iranian […]

At the request of Reporters Without Borders (RSF) for International Day to End Impunity for Crimes against Journalists, celebrated on 2 November, prosecutors from eight countries have given ten specific undertakings designed to ensure that violence against media personnel does not go unpunished. And they urge fellow prosecutors to follow suit. Read the Appeal of

People retain information because it either stands out, it relates to their existing knowledge base, or it’s something they retrieve, recount or repeatedly use over time. “The average layperson [who is] trying to learn nuclear physics for the first time, for example, will probably find it very difficult to retain that information. That’s because he

Ayoung democracy developing under the threat of its powerful neighbor, Taiwan ranks 38th in the Reporters Without BordersPress Freedom Index. Among democracies, it also has among the lowest levels of trust in the media. Taiwan’s media environment reflects its political landscape: it questions its ties with mainland China and is divided over its concept of the

Big cities seem to be the centers of everything, including the media industry. One in five newsroom employees in the U.S. work in New York, Los Angeles or Washington, D.C. In the U.K., 39% of all freelancers and 49% of all employee journalists live in London. For journalism graduates worldwide, heading to a big city to find work

2022-11-03. How can young media leaders make sense of the current hostile media environment? Veteran editors offered some suggestions to three cohorts from the TEMASEK Young Media Leadership Fellowship (YMLF) who gathered in Singapore this week. “Being a young media leader is about having responsibility, setting examples and being the person who inspires – and

Meta, which owns Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, has announced that it will cut 13% of its workforce. The first mass lay-offs in the firm’s history will result in 11,000 employees, from a worldwide headcount of 87,000, losing their jobs. Meta chief executive Mark Zuckerberg said the cuts were “the most difficult changes we’ve made in Meta’s

By James Clayton in San Francisco and Annabelle Liang in Singapore BBC News Twitter says it will inform its staff on Friday about whether they will be laid off following the firm’s takeover by Elon Musk. In an internal email, the social media company said the cuts are “an effort to place Twitter on a

Image: Michelle Sobrino-Stearns, CEO of Variety, has found ways to achieve nine consecutive years of revenue gains and innovation, marking the strongest period of growth in the company’s history. KATIE JONES/VARIETY What is it like to be a female CEO of a large media company? As the digital publishing landscape continues to evolve, media outlets are

Researchers are concerned not only with our exposure to mis- and disinformation but with the depth of confidence people have in their inaccurate beliefs. It’s difficult to separate the vitality of democracy from the vibrancy of the information that fuels it. In their landmark work on political knowledge in America, the scholars Michael X. Delli Carpini and Scott