Reporters Without Borders (RSF) declared a “press freedom state of emergency” in Poland during a visit to Warsaw last week, condemning a broadcasting law amendment that threatens TVN, the country’s leading independent broadcast media group, and the arbitrary restrictions on press freedom that the government has imposed as part of state of emergency along the […]
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Reporters Without Borders (RSF) and the Samir Kassir Foundation call on the Lebanese authorities to reverse their decision to deny a Reuters journalist entry without giving any reason, which sets a disturbing precedent for the future of journalism in Lebanon. Reuters and Suleiman Al-Khalidi, the news agency’s chief correspondent for Jordan and Syria, are still waiting to
2021-09-10. Consumers will pay for content that is timely and resonates with them, even in tough markets like Indonesia, where publishers have struggled to persuade users to pay, according to speakers at WAN-IFRA’s recent Digital Media Asia conference. A session during the event focused on niche revenue opportunities and featured Leilani Han, Director of Business Development
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2021-09-10. Our Burning Planet produces high-end journalism about humanity’s greatest challenge. On World News Day, 28 September, some 300 newsrooms around the world will show what they are doing about climate change. As part of the build-up, Laura Oliver interviewed Jillian Green, managing editor of Our Burning Planet, a unit dedicated to covering the global environmental
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As new EU export controls rules come into force on 9 September with the recast Dual-Use Regulation(1), five organizations call upon the European Commission as well as all 27 EU member states to follow up on their promise of creating a transparent market in cyber-surveillance technologies that is bound by effective human rights safeguards with
The Tanzanian government’s decision to suspend an independent weekly for 30 days is “arbitrary and excessive” and a complete contradiction of the new president’s declared intention to stop sanctioning the media, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) says. One of Tanzania’s most popular Swahili-language newspapers, Raia Mwema has been missing from the country’s newsstands since 6 September, one day
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The Tanzanian government’s decision to suspend an independent weekly for 30 days is “arbitrary and excessive” and a complete contradiction of the new president’s declared intention to stop sanctioning the media, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) says. One of Tanzania’s most popular Swahili-language newspapers, Raia Mwema has been missing from the country’s newsstands since 6 September, one day
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Twitter has announced a new feature allowing accounts to self-identify as bots, by adding a label to their profile. Twitter said the update was based on research that found that people wanted more context about non-human accounts. The company gives several examples of “good bots” including accounts that share vaccination updates, information about seismic activity
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2021-09-09. Twenty-one news organisations across Brazil and Spanish-speaking Latin America have been selected to participate in the 2021 GNI Latin America Advertising Revenue Lab. Led by the Google News Initiative and organised in collaboration with digital consultancy Media.Monks and WAN-IFRA, the programme will provide a diverse cohort of media organisations with personalised, hands-on support to
2021-09-09. El Diario, a Spanish online-only news company, was founded in 2012 with the primary aim of reconnecting society with journalism. The company’s membership programme is built under the premise that journalism is a public service. El Diario’s membership model guarantees its employees economic and editorial independence, all the while keeping the reader at its
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