Sachini Kavindya

Main image: Lorenzo Zimmer (left) and Jonas Bleeser recording an episode of Schwäbisches Tagblatt’s crime podcast. Image credit: Ulrich Metz. In the beginning of 2022, the newspaper based in Tübingen in southwest Germany launched its first audio product, a podcast called “Am Gericht” (“At the courthouse”). The show looks at issues related to crime and […]

As the midterm elections loom, there’s a lot of talk about threats to democracy, and what to do about it. One recent poll even showed this as the issue of most concern to voters. News organizations have created teams to cover democracy as a beat. Possible stories abound, from the January 6 investigation, to gerrymandering and voter suppression,

More than 31,000 people to date have died due to gun violence in the U.S. in 2022 alone. During the same period, amost 17,000 people have died by suicide at the hands of guns, and there have been over 480 mass shootings — defined as the deaths of three or more people in a single shooting —

Agitation to break away from a nation is not uncommon — it happens across the world. In Nigeria and elsewhere in West Africa, escalating conflicts resulting from separatist groups who desire independence for their regions or ethnic groups have resulted in violence. In Nigeria, separatists are known to bully, intimidate, harass and make death threats both online and through armed militias associated with

Kinshasa, September 21, 2022—Congolese authorities should thoroughly investigate and hold accountable those responsible for the attack on Radio Evangélique Butembo-Oicha, known as REBO, in North Kivu, and ensure the safety of all journalists in the country, the Committee to Protect Journalists said Wednesday. Around 9 p.m. on September 12, four armed men in uniforms resembling

New York, September 21, 2022 – On Wednesday, a court in Kyrgyzstan convicted Next TV director Taalaibek Duishenbiev of inciting interethnic hatred over posts on the broadcaster’s social media accounts covering Russia’s war in Ukraine, according to news reports. Duishenbiev, who was detained for seven months pending trial, was originally handed a five-year prison sentence, his lawyer,

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) urges Tunisia’s government to quickly repeal an unprecedented new decree criminalising “rumours and fake news” because it threatens press freedom, one of the most important gains of the country’s pro-democracy revolution in 2011. “Using censorship and bans on the provision of news and information to combat disinformation and fake news is

As in life, the only constant in journalism has been change. Technological advances over the years have modified the profile of the journalist. The image of the journalist as a lone wolf with a typewriter and notebook in hand has been left behind. It has given way to the profile of a multifaceted professional who

The proposed European Media Freedom Act (EMFA) that was unveiled today represents an important step forward for media freedom and for the preservation of democracy and the rule of law throughout the European Union. Reporters Without Borders (RSF) hails this initiative, which incorporates many of its recommendations, and will work to improve it. “This proposed European legislation

Image:Burmese journalist Htet Htet Khine was sentenced to three years in prison on 15 September 2022 by a Yangon court. Photo: Facebook Reporters Without Borders (RSF) calls for the immediate release of Htet Htet Khine, a Burmese freelance journalist and former BBC Media Action presenter who was sentenced to three years in prison with hard labour in a