A month after Belarusian journalist Raman Pratasevich’s spectacular arrest and his three subsequent forced public confessions of guilt, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) condemns the return of forced confessions in Eastern Europe and urges the authorities to put an immediate end to this practice. Читать на русском / Read in Russian Ten days after his arrest, […]
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) deplores the shutdown, announced on Wednesday, June 23rd, of Apple Daily, one of the last major Chinese-language media critical of the Beijing regime, which follows the freezing of its financial assets imposed by the Hong Kong government. Hong Kong Next Digital media group’s board of directors announced on Wednesday 23rd June,
The continued targeting of pro-democracy journalists and publications is sending a chilling message to Hong Kong’s media, with experts warning of a devastating impact on press freedom in the city. The BBC’s Andreas Illmer reports. On Sunday night, police announced that they had arrested a former senior journalist with the now-shut Apple Daily at the
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The European Commission has opened an investigation into whether Google is dominating the online-advertising market at the expense of its rivals. It will examine Google’s role in collecting data, selling advertising space and acting as an online-advertising intermediary. The commission is concerned the technology giant is making it hard for other online advertisers to compete.
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Reporters Without Borders (RSF) submitted an urgent appeal to the United Nations (UN) concerning the alarming raid of the headquarters of Hong Kong media outlet, Apple Daily by the police, the arrests of five senior staff and the freezing of the media outlet’s assets last Thursday. Reporters Without Borders (RSF) submitted on 22nd of June
The GAMI Briefing #2 looked at some of the most innovative use cases of the blockchain technology in the journalism space, as well as reporting on our recent survey about publishers’ expectations concerning blockchain. The conversation around blockchain can be confusing. On the one hand its advocates speak about the technology’s disruptive potential, which supposedly
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Reporters Without Borders (RSF) calls for an overhaul of Mexico’s federal mechanism for protecting journalists after two Mexican journalists were murdered in the space of 24 hours. One of them, Gustavo Sánchez Cabrera had repeatedly reported being threatened and was waiting to receive protection from the federal authorities. The director of the Noticias Minuto a
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Journalism around science, and looking after each other, has come into its own this past year. It’s the kind of content that has strengthened the bond between newsrooms and their communities. By giving people access to trustworthy information to help them manage their lives during a time of threat, a compelling case for fact-based journalism
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Three journalists are being tried in Turkish-recognized Northern Cyprus on a charge of “violating privacy” for exposing an alleged plan to sell Turkish Cypriot passports. Reporters Without Borders (RSF) calls on the North Nicosia criminal court that began trying them on 4 June to take account of the public interest value of their reporting. Deniz
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How could Norway’s oldest business daily teach young investors about stocks in an entertaining way while drawing them into their subscription funnel? DN’s answer:“… by stealing the gaming industry’s toolkit.” Founded in 1889, Dagens Næringsliv (DN) wanted to take advantage of an ongoing bull market that has attracted a large number of small scale investors
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