Reporters Without Borders (RSF) condemns an increase in the harassment of journalists and media outlets in South Sudan, amid civil society calls for the resignation of President Salva Kiir and Vice-President Riek Machar. The targets include Radio Jonglei, which has not broadcast since 27 August, when security officials raided the station, closed it down, briefly […]
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The Sri Lanka Press Institute (SLPI) successfully conducted a three-day online workshop series on the Safety of Journalists in both Sinhala and Tamil languages via the zoom platform. The Tamil workshop series was held on the 23rd, 24th, and 25th of August 2021 from 7 pm-8 pm while the Sinhala workshop series was held on
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Reporters Without Borders (RSF) calls for Moroccan newspaper editor Souleiman Raissouni’s immediate release pending his appeal against the five-year prison sentence he received from a Casablanca court on 9 July at the end of four-month trial marked by multiple irregularities. Held for more than a year, Raissouni was not in court to hear the judge
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Cameraman Aleksandr “Lekso” Lashkarava died after being seriously injured while covering a counter-demonstration by homophobic far-rightists. Reporters Without Borders demands an in-depth, impartial and transparent official investigation of the circumstances of Lashkarava’s death. Aleksandr Lashkarava’s mother found him dead in his bed on Sunday morning. A cameraman for Georgian opposition station Pirveli TV, he had
The secretary-general of Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has responded to the insinuations that Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán made about RSF after he was included in the 2021 gallery of “press freedom predators” that the press freedom NGO published on 2 July. Orbán is the only European leader to be included in the gallery. An
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Reporters Without Borders (RSF) and its partner, Freedom Network (FN), hail the adoption of a law protecting journalists by the legislative assembly in Sindh province, in southern Pakistan, but they propose essential improvements that should be incorporated into the law during its initial implementation phase. The essence of the new law, passed unanimously by the
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Reporters Without Borders (RSF) condemns the arrests of a total a dozen of journalists in the space of two days in the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa, and calls for their immediate and unconditional release. Most of the arrests took place on 30 June, when a total of 10 employees of the Awlo Media Center news
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Nasri Abu Jaish says Palestinian PM Mohammad Shtayyeh twice refused to accept his resignation, leading him to continue in government. The Palestinian Authority labour minister who declared he would resign amid protests over the death of an activist in custody will ultimately remain in office, he said on Sunday. Nasri Abu Jaish, who is also
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2021-07-08. WAN-IFRA is launching the third round of Table Stakes Europe in partnership with the Google News Initiative Digital Growth Programme. The one-year transformation and coaching programme for regional and local news publishers, a collaboration with Table Stakes architect Doug Smith, will once again welcome twenty-four participating news enterprises. Applications are now open and will
Switching to a subscription model in the middle of a pandemic was not an easy decision for the publisher. But El País made it work. “A crazy story in the middle of a pandemic,” is how Borja Echevarría, Managing Editor of El País, describes their shift to a subscription model last year. But as crazy
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