Sachini Kavindya

Former US President Donald Trump’s social media platform has been barred from Google Play. Google says the platform violates its policies on prohibiting content like physical threats and incitement to violence. The move makes it difficult for users with Android phones to download the app. Devin Nunes, the CEO of Truth Social, has previously called […]

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) condemns the unacceptable violence against at least ten Iraqi journalists, some of it by members of the security forces, during protests in response to an announcement by populist Shia cleric Muqtada al-Sadr that he is retiring from politics. “Journalists are once again on the front line of armed clashes in Baghdad,” RSF’s Middle East

After two cases in August of journalists being arrested for covering the tension between nomadic herders and sedentary crop farmers in central and southern Chad, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) calls on the Chadian authorities to protect journalistic reporting, including coverage of these conflicts, which has become especially difficult. August’s first arrest victim was Janvier Mouatangar, a

2022-08-30. CEOs of three top publications came together to discuss COVID’s impact on business, the transition from print to digital, and the revenue tussle between media companies and big tech. by Neha Gupta neha.gupta@wan-ifra.org | August 30, 2022 The panel at WAN-IFRA’s recent Asian Media Leaders eSummit comprised Sandy Romualdez (Chairperson, Inquirer Group of Companies, Philippines), Andy Budiman (CEO, KG Media, Indonesia), and James

Image: Unofficial User Needs model of New York Times audience 2022-08-26. The publishing sector has been developing its audience-centric thinking for some time now, and for the most advanced players it has been central to their success. Audience news needs, as a strategic, actionable concept, has been helping forward thinking publishers to find their product-market

Indian multi-billionaire Mukesh Ambani has announced a $25bn (£21.3bn) plan to launch 5G mobile internet services in the country within two months. Mr Ambani, who heads the telecoms-to-retail group Reliance Industries, says the high-speed network will be introduced first in major cities, including New Delhi and Mumbai. He said it will then be expanded to

Image: Mexican journalist Jonathan Cuevas speaks at a demonstration in Mexico City by members of Mexico’s press to protest the killing of their colleague Fredid Román, on August 24, 2022. Journalist killings have continued unabated in Mexico in the first nine months of 2022, amid a climate of impunity. (AFP/Pedro Pardo) Natalie Southwick and Carlos

Between 2005 and 2015, fewer than one in five experts in the news globally were women, according to a 2020 report on missing perspectives of women in news. “Men are quoted in online news twice as frequently as women in the U.K., three times more frequently in South Africa and in the U.S., four times more frequently

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has embarked on an unprecedented project whereby it will monitor and analyse online attacks, threats and violence against the media throughout Brazil’s election campaign. “Systematic monitoring and in-depth analysis of online attacks against the media are essential in order to better understand the digital arena’s role in shaping violence against journalists