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2021-09-07. Nordkurier, a news publisher based in the German state of Mecklenburg-Vorpommern in the country’s northeast, has created a weekly newsletter that aims to strengthen the bonds between people who used to live in the region with the area’s present and its future. Today, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern is home to about 1.6 million people, which makes it […]

2021-09-07. Advertising is a predominant revenue stream in the Indian media digital space. The past 15 years have seen a constant struggle for advertisers’ budgets, with brands usually choosing big platforms with more data and users. [Sponsored Content] Piano is an SaaS platform strategic services company whose clients include 700 news media businesses, such as

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) calls for the immediate and unconditional release of Ma Thuzar, a journalist held arbitrarily since her arrest for no clear reason in Yangon, Myanmar’s biggest city, a week ago after four months in hiding. Her family and colleagues spent five days without any news of her after she was snatched by

The Russian embassy in France has reacted to a report by Reporters Without Borders (RSF) on Internet censorship in Russia by accusing RSF of bias but, amazingly, in the course of so doing, it has referred to a Russian foreign ministry report on human rights violations in other countries that quotes RSF extensively (and selectively).

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

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

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

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