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In response to the diversion of a Ryanair flight carrying 126 passengers, including Belarusian journalist Raman Pratasevich, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has formally asked Lithuania’s prosecutors to investigate Belarusian President Alexander Lukashenko and any other person they identify for criminal hijacking. Читать на русском / Read in Russian In a letter sent today to the […]

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) is appalled by Ethiopia’s expulsion of Simon Marks, an Addis Ababa-based reporter for the New York Times and Bloomberg News, just weeks after it suspended his accreditation. The Ethiopian authorities must stop constantly intimidating journalists, RSF said. This is the first time in years that Ethiopia has expelled a foreign reporter.

The public service media in the Czech Republic and Slovenia are resisting political pressure, including accusations of criminality and threats to funding, but their editorial and financial independence is clearly in danger. Reporters Without Borders (RSF) calls on politicians in these two countries to safeguard public media independence in accordance with Council of Europe recommendations.

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) calls for the immediate release of Aleksandr Dorogov and Yan Katelevskiy​, two Russian journalists specialising in investigating police corruption who have been detained for nearly ten months and whose pretrial detention has just been extended. This judicial persecution is unacceptable and must stop, RSF says. Читать на русском / Read in

Lockdowns have forced people to spend the past year and more learning, working, and socialising online – but in many countries, women have been missing out. They are less likely than men to have access to the internet in nearly every region of the world, according to the latest figures from UN agency the International

Applications are now called for the online workshop series titled “Digital Transition of Traditional Media”. Journalists and interested applicants are invited to fill out the application form on or before 30th May 2021. Scan the QR code or click on the link  https://cutt.ly/Xb8EL8i to register  

2021-05-21. Patrick Appel, Director of Research at Piano, shares four key lessons from the subscription surge publishers experienced during the COVID-19 pandemic | sponsored content Piano’s recently published Subscription Performance Benchmark Report explores the learnings from a year in which news publishers saw their subscriptions surge, due in part to COVID-19 and in part to

2021-05-19. WAN-IFRA is looking for EU news media to partner with some innovation projects submitted to Stars4Media, the first European innovation exchange programme to facilitate cross-border cooperation between media professionals. Stars4Media recent call for proposals resulted in applications well beyond the expected target. The programme received more than 80 innovation projects after its first round of applications. They

2021-05-19. New report by World Printers Forum finds that newspaper publishers are going ahead with their investment plans in print despite the difficult situation posed by the pandemic in 2020. It’s no secret that the pandemic dealt publishers a severe blow last year, especially their print activities. Both ad and circulation revenues declined significantly globally.