Reporters Without Borders (RSF) knows of at least 22 newspapers throughout the world that were driven to close by governments they annoyed during the past five years – the fate suffered by Apple Daily, Hong Kong’s most popular tabloid, which announced on 23 June that it was shutting down under pressure from the Hong Kong […]
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Fung Wai-kong is seventh senior figure from publication to be arrested in two weeks. Hong Kong police have arrested a former senior Apple Daily journalist at the airport while he was attempting to leave the city. The 57-year-old journalist is the seventh staff member of the now-closed pro-democracy newspaper to be detained, after police accused
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The continued targeting of pro-democracy journalists and publications is sending a chilling message to Hong Kong’s media, with experts warning of a devastating impact on press freedom in the city. The BBC’s Andreas Illmer reports. On Sunday night, police announced that they had arrested a former senior journalist with the now-shut Apple Daily at the
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On 25 June, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) staged parallel protests outside the Chinese embassies in Paris and Berlin, holding funeral-style processions to denounce the killing of Apple Daily by the Hong Kong government, and to raise alarm of the threats posed by the Beijing regime to press freedom globally. Arriving at the Chinese embassy following
2021-06-28. WAN-IFRA has announced the election of ten new members to serve on its Supervisory Board of Directors and the Board of the World Editors Forum (WEF). At its General Assembly of Members on June 23, WAN-IFRA presented a positive balance for the year 2020, and foresees a better-than-expected year in 2021 with a growing
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2021-06-24. WAN-IFRA and the World Editors Forum condemn the enforced closure of Apple Daily as a major blow to press freedom in Hong Kong. The culmination of a targeted campaign against the news organisation – that has seen the jailing of its owner, Jimmy Lai, the arrest of senior executives and editorial staff, newsroom raids,
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Maintaining productivity during lockdowns and remote working wasn’t an issue for the FT. Instead, the challenge revolved around figuring out ways to support staff and boost motivation. Here’s how they did it. During WAN-IFRA’s Virtual Newsroom Summit conference, Felicity Thomas, Head of Talent Development at the FT, shared the changes the company implemented to maintain
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2021-06-23. The yearly report about news audiences’ consumption patterns and attitudes shows that even though the demand for trusted and reliable information grew during the pandemic, the news industry faces significant business challenges. The Reuters Institute Digital News Report is an annual treasure trove of data and insight for anyone interested in the news industry’s
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has gone to Morocco to attend the trials of two journalists who have been jailed for more than a year and who are in very poor health as a result of going on hunger strike. RSF calls on King Mohammed to intercede to avoid the worst. RSF secretary-general Christophe Deloire and
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A month after Belarusian journalist Raman Pratasevich’s spectacular arrest and his three subsequent forced public confessions of guilt, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) condemns the return of forced confessions in Eastern Europe and urges the authorities to put an immediate end to this practice. Читать на русском / Read in Russian Ten days after his arrest,
