2022-01-20. 2022 will be the year to tackle the complexities of covering climate change says the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism (RISJ) in a new report. While the obstacles are significant, editors are focused on the challenge. There are a few nagging issues editors raise when talking about their climate change coverage and […]
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Reporters Without Borders (RSF) calls on Meta (Facebook and Instagram), Google (YouTube), Twitter and Telegram not to comply with the Russian media regulator’s draconian demand for the deletion of accounts held by OVD-Info, a news website that it blocked last month. Читать на русском / Read in Russian Stepping up Russia’s war on reliable and
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Reporters Without Borders (RSF) is extremely concerned about the many Yemeni journalists currently detained in different parts of Yemen and calls for their immediate release. At least 14 Yemeni journalists are held, 13 of them by rebel groups. They include Kamel Almamari, the Al-Kawthar TV and Radio Tehran correspondent in the capital, Sanaa, who was abducted exactly seven months ago today, on
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Investigative journalists Kostas Vaxevanis and Ioanna Papadakou face serious criminal charges linked to their reporting on a major corruption scandal. Reporters Without Borders (RSF) join seven other NGOs in requesting guarantees that the proceedings launched by the Greek authorities are demonstrably independent and free of any political interference. The undersigned international media freedom and freedom
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A full year after President Biden was sworn into office, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) expresses serious concern over the state of press freedom in the United States, and urges the White House and 117th Congress to redouble efforts to ensure the safety of journalists and the protection of press freedom at home and abroad. Journalists
Cameroonian journalist Amadou Vamoulké, the septuagenarian former head of the national radio and TV broadcaster, has just completed his 2,000th day in detention without being convicted on any charge. Cameroon’s disgraceful treatment of Vamoulké falls far below even the most basic standards of justice and human dignity, says Reporters Without Borders (RSF). Adjourned 90 times,
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Reporters Without Borders (RSF) calls for the immediate withdrawal of the unjustified lawsuit that the head of the Malaysian Anti-Corruption Commission (MACC) has brought against a journalist whose investigative reporting cast doubt on his honesty. The journalist, Lalitha Kunaratnam, finds herself in the grotesque situation in which an anti-corruption agency is now trying to silence her
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After talking to journalists in Kashmir, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) demands the immediate reopening of the Kashmir Press Club, now officially closed for good after being invaded by agents of the New Delhi-run local government and paramilitaries last week. Kashmiri journalists used the club to discuss their problems and defend press freedom, RSF says. Located
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2022-01-17. News publishers report on climate change with an increased focus – but how does the industry approach its own environmental sustainability? The French press has reduced its ecological impact significantly over the last few years, thanks to a mix of regulations and voluntary commitments. Meanwhile, Schibsted’s approach to sustainability can help individual publishers with
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Reporters Without Borders (RSF) is asking the UN to set up an independent international commission of enquiry into the death of Baktash Abtin, an Iranian journalist and writer who died on 8 January as a result of not being treated when he caught Covid-19 in Tehran’s Evin prison. A member of the Iranian Writers’ Association, Baktash
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