A brutal mob killing of a Sri Lankan man accused of blasphemy in Pakistan has sparked protests in both countries, with Pakistan’s leader condemning the vigilante violence. Priyantha Diyawadanage, 48, a factory manager in the city of Sialkot, was beaten to death on Friday and his body set alight. More than 100 people have been […]
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2021-12-01. As audiences-first strategies start to build momentum around the world, a natural knock-on effect of that is its relationship with a publisher’s reader revenue strategy. The topic was prevalent in most of the case studies presented at WAN-IFRA’s Digital Media Europe 2021 virtual conference in September, and WAN-IFRA just published a report based on
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2021-12-01. Jimmy Lai and the staff of Apple Daily Hong Kong have faced harassment, arrest and prison time in their quest for press freedom. They’re this year’s winners of the WAN-IFRA Golden Pen of Freedom award. By Colette Davidson Until its final print edition on 24 June 2021, Apple Daily was one of Hong Kong’s most
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2021-12-03. New research benchmarking the extent of sexual harassment in Russian newsrooms has been released by WAN-IFRA and ANRI-Media. This is part of a larger multi-region study WAN-IFRA Women in News (WIN) has conducted with City, University of London. The study is the largest of its kind to be conducted in Russia. The results suggest
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2021-11-25. On this International Day for the Elimination of Violence against women that marks the start of the 16-days of activism against gender-based violence campaign, we join our voices to end sexual harassment. Sexual harassment in the media industry is a pervasive and global problem. Preliminary results from an ongoing Women in News research study
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2021-11-24. A new documentary, “Missing from the Broch: The Disappearance of Shaun Ritchie,” helped Scottish group DC Thomson Media reach record engagement levels. Just over seven years ago, a 20-year-old man named Shaun Ritchie went missing after attending a party on Halloween night 2014 at a remote farmhouse in Scotland. His disappearance led to one
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As in previous years, this year’s International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women launches 16 days of activism to be concluded on the 10th of December 2020 — the day that commemorates the International Human Rights Day. Several public events are being coordinated and iconic buildings and landmarks will be ‘oranged’ to recall the need
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After last week’s forcible arrests of three photo-journalists by soldiers and many other cases of reporters being obstructed near Poland’s border with Belarus, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) calls on the Polish parliament to lift all restrictions on the media so that they can cover the migrant crisis. Powerless, with their hands handcuffed above their heads,
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Six months after Raman Pratasevich, the editor of an allegedly “extremist” Belarusian exile news outlet, was arrested when his Ryanair flight was diverted to Minsk, he is still awaiting trial in an unknown location. Reporters Without Borders (RSF) reiterates its call for his immediate release and condemns the increasingly frequent use of “extremism” charges against
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) calls for the immediate release of Ibrahim Awwad, a Syrian freelance journalist based in the Jordanian capital, Amman, who was arrested last week and is now threatened with being sent back to Syria. According to Fared Al-Mahlool, a friend and fellow journalist, Jordanian security officials raided Awwad’s home in Amman on 17
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