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With the European Union’s proposed Digital Services Act (DSA) now in its final phase of discussion among the EU’s institutions, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) calls on negotiators to agree on ambitious legislation capable of safeguarding, as far as it is still possible, the public’s right to information. The DSA and its sister, the Digital Market […]

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) calls on the Chadian authorities to shed all possible light on last week’s massacre in southern Chad in which a radio reporter was killed while covering an attack by local herders on a village of farmers. The journalist, Evariste Djaï-Loramadji, provided his Christian community radio station, Radio Lotiko, with a brief live report

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) calls on the authorities in Fortaleza, the capital of northeastern Brazil’s Ceará state, to conduct a thorough and transparent investigation into a neighbourhood news website editor’s murder in order to identify those responsible. Pirambu News founder and owner Givanildo Oliveira was murdered on the night of 7 February in the Fortaleza neighbourhood of Pirambu

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) condemns the unacceptable political meddling behind Sincha Dimara’s suspension as head of news and current affairs at EMTV News, Papua New Guinea’s main public television news channel, after three news stories annoyed a government minister. She must be reinstated at once, RSF says. After 33 years at EMTV News, Sincha Dimara was suspended for

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) condemns an Indian government agency’s decision to freeze the bank accounts of Rana Ayyub, an outspoken journalist who was been subjected to waves of judicial, digital and physical harassment in the past. The decision to freeze her assets is completely arbitrary and must be rescinded at once, RSF says. Rana Ayyub,

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) is alarmed to learn that shots were fired at the home of one of Capital FM’s journalists just 24 hours after masked gunmen attacked this Bissau-based opposition radio station, injuring several journalists. Guinea-Bissau’s authorities must react at once in order to protect this station’s personnel, RSF says. Bullet impacts can be

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) condemns a campaign to harass and intimidate the staff of the Kyrgyz investigative video channel Temirov Live, and calls for the withdrawal of the trumped-up drug charge that police brought against Bolot Temirov, the video channel’s well-known founder and director, after a raid on its premises. When narcotics police raided the

Individuals linked to Kosovo’s ruling party and the president incited the public against journalists after two media outlets had made a mistake followed by a public apology. Together with other international NGOs defending press freedom, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) condemns in an open letter a disproportionate reaction which led to unjustified hostility against reporters. To:

Save the date! The East-West Center is excited to announce that its 7th International Media Conference will be held both in-person and virtually this summer, June 27-30, 2022, in its home city of Honolulu, Hawaiʻi. Registration details to follow. As social trust in media, government, business, science, NGOs – even in the concept of society itself – has

2022-02-09. How can news organisations harness human bias in algorithmic content curation? Sonali Verma, the Globe and Mail’s Senior Product Manager, Analytics Products, explains how they created an AI system that incorporates the best of human judgment as well as machine learning, with safeguards built in to prevent the machine from descending into clickbait hell.