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Swedish Reporters Without Borders awards press freedom prize to a Hungarian news site

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The Swedish section of Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has awarded its 2021 Press Freedom Prize to the new Hungarian news site telex.hu. The prize was presented during a webinar in Stockholm yesterday, World Press Freedom Day. RSF Sweden’s prize singles out journalists who show courage and independence, qualities that embody the journalistic ideal that RSF […]

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Congo celebrates World Press Freedom Day by sentencing a journalist to six months in prison

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Illegally incarcerated for the past three months, an editor has been sentenced to spend three more months in prison for simple defamation. Reporters Without Borders condemns this unjust action, which is an affront to all Congolese journalists. The sentence handed down to Raymond Malonga shows the level of respect for law and press freedom in

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Mass international solidarity campaign launched in support of Maria Ressa

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On World Press Freedom Day 2021, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) and the #HoldTheLine coalition have launched an innovative campaign of solidarity with journalist Maria Ressa, who faces a possible lifetime in prison in the Philippines. A new website (www.holdthelineformariaressa.com) features hundreds of videos from prominent supporters around the world – with a call for public

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Afghanistan : “No just and lasting peace in Afghanistan without guarantees for press freedom”

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On the occasion of World Press Freedom Day (3 May), Reporters Without Borders (RSF) and the Centre for the Protection of Afghan Women Journalists (CPAWJ) sound the alarm about the plight of the media and the future for journalism in Afghanistan. The press freedom situation is disastrous in Afghanistan 14 months after the Taliban and

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How can AI help improve newsroom productivity?

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2021-04-30. The GAMI Briefing #1 looked at how news publishers and journalists are using AI-powered solutions to work more efficiently, what kinds of issues arise when these tools are introduced in the newsroom, and what solutions exist to deal with such challenges. The virtual GAMI Briefings are an opportunity for the media innovation community to

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RSF urges Madagascar to let journalists cover Covid-19 freely

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Reporters Without Borders (RSF) calls on the authorities in Madagascar not to suppress media coverage of a second wave of coronavirus cases after they suspended nine radio and TV programmes last week and made several broadcasters give a written undertaking not to cause trouble in order to get their programmes back on the air. The

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Right to Information: Gains of the Present and Priorities for the Future – Webinar on the World Press Freedom Day 2021

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The Sri Lanka Press Institute (SLPI) and the Pathfinder Foundation jointly hosted a webinar on Right to Information (RTI) titled “Right to Information: Gains of the Present and Priorities for the Future: to coincide with the World Press Freedom Day,  emphasizing the importance of access to information as a public good. The eminent  panel of

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Viable, diverse, stable and safe – is this really too much for media to ask?

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Viability, diversity, stability and safety are essential ingredients of any healthy information eco-system. How many media worldwide can say yes to all four? How far are individual professionals, news organisations, and the industry as a whole from achieving these? And at this time of global anxiety, economic turmoil, and future uncertainty, is it crazy to

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Message from Ms. Audrey Azulay, Director-General of UNESCO, on the occasion of World Press Freedom Day

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Thirty years ago today, journalists, editors and publishers from across Africa gathered to draft a call for press freedom, the “Declaration of Windhoek on Promoting an Independent and Pluralistic African Press”. This landmark Declaration aimed to make the free flow of information a public good – a goal which still resonates today.Since 1991, the information

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Strengthening Journalism to advance Democracies; Information as a Public Good World Press Freedom Day 2021

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The Sri Lanka Press Institute (SLPI) marks the World Press Freedom Day on 3rd May 2021 in concurrence with UNESCO’s commemoration of 30 years of the Windhoek Declaration under the theme “Information as a Public Good”. The completion of 30 years of the landmark Windhoek Declaration for the development of free independent and pluralistic press

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