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On the initiative of Reporters Without Borders (RSF), 12 large and medium-sized French cities are going to join Paris in displaying huge photos of Olivier Dubois, a French journalist who has been held hostage by an armed group in Mali for the past six months. The aim of this “cities campaign” is to show solidarity […]

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) condemns cartoonist Optatus Fwema’s arbitrary detention for the past two weeks in Tanzania over a cartoon of the president. This is the latest chilling message to journalists in a country where press freedom has been worsening steadily in recent years. Fwema has been held at Oysterbay police station in Dar es

Today (7 October) is not only Russian President Vladimir Putin’s 69th birthday but also the 15th anniversary of the murder of the well-known Russian investigative journalist Anna Politkovskaya. Reporters Without Borders (RSF) is marking this sad occasion by releasing a thousand black balloons to remind President Putin about the climate of impunity in his country.

Facebook’s “wall of secrecy” is being demolished, thanks to whistleblowers such as Frances Haugen, MP Damian Collins has said. Her revelations, coupled with the company’s “inaccurate evidence” to politicians, meant regulators must act, he said. Mr Collins leads a group of MPs working on a law that will give the UK’s media regulator powers over

2021-10-06. WAN-IFRA, the International Publishers Association (IPA), and the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) call on Pakistani authorities to retract plans to establish the ‘Pakistan Media Development Authority’ (PMDA) that risks placing strict state control over all media. Under the pretence of “simplifying procedures and fighting disinformation”, the proposed changes to current frameworks aim to

2021-10-06. Two experiments with producing audio content illustrate the challenges and opportunities for news publishers in this booming space. The Irish Times’ ‘Listen’ project leans on AI-driven audio articles, while Google’s collaboration with The Guardian and The Royal Institute of Blind People with ‘Auditorial’ shed light on how publishers should not ignore vision-impaired readers. The

Facebook has apologised after it stopped working for users around the world for several hours on Monday. WhatsApp and Instagram – which are owned by the company – were also down. What was the problem? In a nutshell, Facebook’s systems stopped talking to the wider internet. It was as if “someone had pulled the cables

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) Secretary-General Christophe Deloire responds to the editor-in-chief of Chinese official media Global Times, who in a paranoid and incoherent editorial made thinly veiled threats to the organisation. In an editorial published on Saturday, 2nd October, the editor-in-chief of the Chinese official media Global Times, Hu Xijin, violently attacked press freedom organisation Reporters Without Borders

Social media services Facebook, WhatsApp and Instagram are back up and running after an outage that lasted almost six hours, Facebook says. It blamed an internal technical issue, which not only affected Facebook’s services, but reportedly also employees’ work passes and email. The services were down from about 16:00 GMT until around 22:00 on Monday.