The New Delhi-based journalist Siddique Kappan, chained to a hospital bed for almost a week, is in a critical condition and Reporters Without Borders (RSF) demands that the Uttar Pradesh provincial authorities order his immediate release. As reported by RSF, Kappan was arrested in October 2020 while travelling from New Delhi to Uttar Pradesh to […]
A Vietnamese court sentenced the journalist and blogger Tran Thi Tuyet Dieu to eight years’ imprisonment on April 23. Dieu, who once worked for the state media, began investigating taboo subjects and posting articles on the Internet in order to put her fellow citizens in the picture. Reporters Without Borders (RSF) calls for her immediate
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Legal action in Europe involving China Global Television Network (CGTN), the Chinese state TV broadcaster, has highlighted the degree to which despotic governments export their propaganda while barring independent news media domestically. Democracies must respond to this dangerous imbalance by imposing the same positive obligations on foreign media as on their own media. Reciprocity is
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The Sri Lanka Press Insitute organized a residential workshop for journalists of print and electronic media on 17th and 18th December at The Villas Wadduwa, Wadduwa. The workshop was on Reparations where SLPI in partnership with the International Organization for Migration (IOM) Sri Lanka spread awareness of the Office for Reparations Act, No.34 of 2018. Resource persons
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2021-04-26. Don’t underestimate the power of email, which is 2.5 times more effective in acquiring subscribers than users going directly to site (and don’t be afraid to ask readers to pay!), says Piano. The humble email is proving to be an important marketing tool for news publishers. Figures disclosed by Piano during WAN-IFRA’s recent Asian
68 percent of news website readers are first-time visitors: Piano Read More »
World News Day will take place on 28 September 2021 and we want you to join the global campaign that shows why journalism matters. Last year, 150 newsrooms took part in the World News Day campaign, presented by the World Editors Forum and Canadian Journalism Foundation. It is part of a global drive to build
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) calls for the release of Emmanuel Mbombog Mbog Matip, a journalist who has been imprisoned without trial in Cameroon since last August and who is being held in an entirely illegal manner. The editor of the newspaper Climat Social and president of the National League for the Defence of the Rights
Cameroonian reporter jailed since August, abandoned by justice system Read More »
Sri Lanka Press Institute (SLPI) has partnered with the Colombo Hilton to launch a PRESS CLUB. An agreement was signed last week between the Chairman of the SLPI Mr. Kumar Nadesan and the General Manager Hilton Colombo & Area General Manager Hilton Sri Lanka, Mr. Manesh Fernando. Colombo Hilton will be the host-hotel for the
The Sri Lanka Press Institute (SLPI), its constituents and affiliated organizations met with the Minister of Mass Media, Hon. Keheliya Rambukwella on Monday, 15th of March to submit an outline of the proposal for a single Authority to monitor the Media, including print, radio, television and digital based on self-regulatory principles that will ensure freedom
PRESS RELEASE: SLPI Submits Media Regulation Proposal to Media Minister Read More »
Despite measures supposedly designed to limit arbitrary arrests of journalists, at least ten were arrested during demonstrations across Russia on 21 April in support of Kremlin critic Alexei Navalny, who has been on hunger strike since 31 March. Reporters Without Borders (RSF) calls on the authorities to order the police to let journalists do their
Let Russian journalists cover demonstrations, RSF says after latest pro-Navalny protests Read More »
