Five journalists and bloggers, driven into exile in Lithuania, Poland and Ukraine by a harsh crackdown on press freedom in Belarus, have agreed to speak today at an online conference organised by Reporters Without Borders (RSF) and the Lithuanian embassy in France. More than 50 independent Belarusian journalists have been forced to flee their country […]
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An independent commission’s report into relations between the French police and media has recommended many concrete measures to provide better protection to journalists covering protests. Reporters Without Borders (RSF) will ensure that these recommendations are incorporated into police regulations and practice. Chaired by Jean-Marie Delarue, the former head of France’s National Consultative Commission on Human
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) is extremely concerned about the safety of journalists in northwestern Mexico’s Sonora state, where a reporter has just been murdered and two others have been missing for weeks. The local and federal authorities must do everything possible to shed light on these cases and rein in the spiralling violence against the
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Reporters Without Borders (RSF) is appalled by the disturbing and unacceptable practices threatening media independence in Israel that have come to light during the evidentiary stage of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s corruption trial, which began last month and resumed in Jerusalem yesterday. Much of it is focussing on Netanyahu’s’ attempts to manipulate the editorial line
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Reporters Without Borders (RSF) calls on the Malian and French authorities to do everything possible to obtain the release of Olivier Dubois, a French journalist who says he has been kidnapped by an Islamist armed group in Mali. In a 21-second video that was released today, Olivier Dubois says he was kidnapped by the “Support
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Reporters Without Borders (RSF) calls on Japan to take advantage of its privileged relationship with Myanmar’s military government to press for the immediate release of Yuki Kitazumi, a Yangon-based Japanese freelance reporter who has been held for the past two and a half weeks and has just been formally charged. Arrested on 18 April, Yuki
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Haemorrhaging advertisers even since the Russian justice ministry listed it as a “foreign agent,” the news website Meduza has been forced to close bureaux and slash salaries in the past week. Reporters Without Borders (RSF) condemns the listing as a serious violation of media pluralism and urges Russia to repeal its draconian “foreign agents” law.
ශ්රී ලංකා කර්තෘ සංසදය – වෘත්තීය ප්රතිපත්ති මාලාව இலங்கை பத்திரிகை முறைப்பாட்டு ஆணைக்குழுவினால் நடைமுறைப்படுத்தப்பட்டுள்ள இலங்கை பத்திரிகை ஆசிரியர் சங்கத்தின் செய்தி ஆசிரியர்களுக்கான தொழில் நடைமுறைக்கோவை (ஒழுக்கக்கோவை)Code of Professional Practice (Code of Ethics) of The Editors’ Guild of Sri Lanka adopted by the Press Complaints Commission of Sri Lanka 01. PREAMBLE This code of practice, which is binding on newspaper
2021-05-03. Since the beginning of the pandemic, the German newspaper has seen its digital subscriptions grow by over 60%. A major factor behind this increase is the publisher’s long-term commitment to quality science reporting. The Covid-19 pandemic has made the news publishing environment more challenging in many ways. But the crisis has also highlighted the
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Reporters Without Borders (RSF) is one of the signatories of an op-ed piece published in Benin on World Press Freedom Day calling for an overhaul of the country’s Digital Law, which has been used to throttle free speech and press freedom. Headlined “Digital Law, Trojan horse for press freedom in Benin?” and co-signed by three
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