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East Timorese journalist Raimundos Oki holds a placard during a rally to support him, in Dili, May 29, 2017. Charges of defamation against Oki were dropped in that case. Photo: VALENTINO DARIEL SOUSA / AFP eporters Without Borders (RSF) calls on Timor-Leste’s authorities to put the public interest first by dropping charges against a journalist […]

A shaking head, new heart colours and a familiar goose are among a new group of emojis set to be released this year. Unicode Consortium’s list contains only 31 new emojis, which expand what can be said through pictures and symbols in text and online messages. This is a much smaller release than last year’s

Pham Doan Trang is currently serving a nine-year prison sentence for conducting “propaganda against the State.” The imprisoned Vietnamese journalist Pham Doan Trang has received a fresh accolade, being named last week as one of the International Press Freedom Award winners by the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ), a U.S.-based press freedom advocacy group. CPJ named Trang

2022-07-15. As the media world changes rapidly, journalism schools find it difficult to keep up. The relevant skills journalists need today are often missing from their curricula, particularly when they concern the business of journalism. This case study is drawn from a collection of inspiring initiatives on ensuring media viability, written by Larry Kilman for

When invited on a pro-segregation press tour of Mississippi 65 years ago, White journalists saw no conflict When the news media covered the Black Lives Matter protests of the summer of 2020, it grappled with questions about “objectivity.” Some reporters spoke out against traditional journalistic standards they thought constrained who could report on the protests

GENEVA (14 July 2022) – The UN Special Rapporteur on freedom of opinion and expression Irene Khan today condemned the Philippines Court of Appeal decision to uphold the 2020 ‘cyber libel’ conviction of Nobel Peace Prize winning journalist Maria Ressa. On 7 July, the Court of Appeal affirmed the libel conviction of Maria Ressa, Rappler co-founder and

Judging from the recent election campaign and the new president’s first two weeks in office, the signs are not good. The inaugural speech of Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. tackled several crucial issues affecting the country, including food security and the climate crisis; but it is also instructive for what it didn’t mention: the peace process, human

Image : The plans include putting popular radio shows on TV, starting with the BBC Radio 5 Live Nicky Campbell programme The BBC has said it is investing in “new capability to cover breaking news stories” for a TV news channel which is expected to launch in April 2023. The channel, which will be called

Ipsos study finds over 4 in 5 adults are concerned about harmful content onlineFrom:Department for Digital, Culture, Media & Sport and The Rt Hon Nadine Dorries MPPublished12 July 2022 A clear majority of the public want social media companies to do more to protect their users from harmful content, according to new research published today. Polling by

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) wrote to UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet on 13 June – the first day of the UN Human Rights Council’s 50th session, which continued until 8 July – drawing her attention to the appalling conditions in which many journalists are detained in Iran. These journalists are being denied