A new centre aims to boost the UK’s security through building expertise in cutting-edge technology. The Centre for Emerging Technology and Security (CETaS) will be based at the Alan Turing Institute, the UK’s centre for data science and artificial intelligence. UK officials say it will help develop expertise outside government, including in publicly available information. […]
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The Sri Lanka Press Institute (SLPI) is currently conducting a research program on voter education in Sri Lanka to study and assess gaps in voter communication and understand its challenges. As part of the initiative, the SLPI facilitated a training for research enumerators from across the country on 09th June 2022 at the SLPI premises.
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Even though World Animal Day is celebrated on October 4, if we really want to make a difference, we need to be their advocates all year round. ඔක්තෝබර් 4 වන දින ලෝක සත්ව දිනය සැමරුවත්, ඇත්ත වශයෙන්ම වෙනසක් කිරීමට නම් අපි අවුරුද්ද පුරා සතුන්ගේ ආරක්ෂාව වෙනුවෙන් පෙනී සිටිය යුතුය. அக்டோபர் 4, உலக விலங்குகள் தினம். விலங்குகளுக்காக
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) calls on the Brazilian authorities to redouble their efforts to locate Dom Phillips, a British journalist, and Bruno Araújo Pereira, a Brazilian expert in his country’s indigenous communities, who have been missing in the Javari Valley region in the far west of Brazil’s Amazonas state since 5 June. All contact with Phillips and
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2022-06-04. For women to feel empowered in newsrooms, it is imperative to get support from a network of like-minded peers and mentors, more so when editorial management is largely men. By Kavita Chandran Keiko Yamamoto, a senior commentator for NHK (Japan Broadcasting Corporation) on gender equality, said women made up barely 5 percent of newsrooms in
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The interim editor of The Kashmir Walla, an online magazine in Indian-administered Jammu and Kashmir, has been summoned by this northern region’s counter-terrorism agency over an article published 11 years ago. Reporters Without Borders (RSF) condemns this latest round in India’s persecution of the magazine’s journalists, who are being jailed one after another, and wonders who
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2022-06-02. Quality, in-depth journalism may seem more elusive than ever, as breaking news, clickbait and churnalism continue to dominate news production globally. Sometimes it’s hard to see the bigger picture for the noise. South African non-profit investigative journalism outfit Viewfinder is changing this by reminding us of what journalism is, and the accountability role it
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Around the world, journalism faces increasing and unprecedented levels of repression, violence, intimidation, and judicial harassment. If journalists are being attacked and silenced, the media cannot provide their audiences with the independent and reliable news that people need in order to stay informed and thrive. Journalists must be able to continue to do their work.
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Since the start of the war in Ukraine, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has registered more than 50 attacks against journalists and media that qualify as war crimes and show that the Russian armed forces are waging an all-out war on news and information. RSF has just filed a fifth complaint with the International Criminal Court’s
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The Sri Lanka Press Institute’s youth awareness workshop series titled ” A Strong Parliament for a Democratic Tomorrow” takes place as a province-wide initiative to promote democracy and political literacy among youth. The Central Province workshop was held on 28th May 2022 with 38 youth participants. Senior Lecturer Mr. Hakeem Abubackar and Mr. Manjula Gajanayake, Executive Director, Institute for
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