On September 17th, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) and a coalition of 44 human rights NGOs urged Chinese President Xi Jinping to exonerate and release Covid-19 reporter Zhang Zhan, who has been on hunger strike since May 2020, for which she was forced-fed. In a joint letter published on 17th September 2021, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) […]
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) welcomes the release of Ismail Ali Bouzriba, a journalist detained arbitrarily for nearly three years in Benghazi, in eastern Libya, but calls for an end to the draconian restrictions on his activities and his close surveillance by the domestic security services linked to Gen. Khalifa Haftar, who controls the eastern part
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Following the addition of two more names to the list of 54 journalists and media workers currently held in the military junta’s jails in Myanmar, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) reminds the international community of the need for targeted sanctions against those responsible for the growing terror. Mizzima News former editor-in-chief Myo Thant was arrested yesterday in Kangye Htaung,
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Reporters Without Borders (RSF) welcomes the world’s first Ministerial Summit for Information and Democracy, which will be held in New York on 24 September on the sidelines of the UN General Assembly. Launched by RSF, the Initiative on Information and Democracy aims to establish safeguards for the digital space so that online platforms and social
As part of its analyses of attacks on the media in Brazil, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) and a local partner, the Rio de Janeiro Institute for Technology and Society (ITS-Rio), are publishing a survey of the behaviour of users of Twitter, the platform used for most of the attacks on the media and journalists in
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Reporters Without Borders (RSF) calls on European Union member states to implement the European Commission’s newly adopted recommendations on journalists’ safety, which are line with what RSF itself has been recommending for a region where media personnel face growing threats. The recommendations adopted by the European Commission today are the first that the EU has
The arrests of four additional suspects in connection with the 2019 killing of journalist Lyra McKee in Derry are a welcome step, but highlight the continued need for justice for her murder. Reporters Without Borders (RSF) continues to campaign for justice for McKee and steps to improve the climate for safety of journalists in Northern
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Educators in Bolivia, the United States and Nigeria have won Global Youth & News Media Prizes for excellence in teaching their students about why societies need good journalism and about the range of threats journalists confront. An international jury of 19 experts in journalism, media literacy and press freedom chose three laureates for the new Scott C.
2021-09-15. During a session at WAN-IFRA’s recent Digital Media Asia conference, speakers from Vice and Mediacorp discussed their creative strategies for driving higher revenues. Branded content makes brands more interesting than banner and display ads, said Myki Slonim of Vice Digital. “When it comes to Gen Z and millennials, we know that a brand that has something
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2021-09-15. India went under the COVID-19 imposed lockdown on March 24, 2020. The country’s digital news ecosystem witnessed a sudden surge in traffic that sustained for several months after. News companies were forced to adapt to technology and mould their digital business strategies, which until then was a periphery business contributing to only a miniscule
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