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2023-02-02. On International Women’s Day last year, Malaysia’s The Star kicked off a year-long collaborative initiative to profile key issues affecting women in Asia. The aim? To position stories around the key challenges facing women on the news agenda throughout the year – not just as a key calendar highlight. by Lucinda Jordaan lucinda.jordaan@wan-ifra.org | February 2, […]

Maria Ressa’s recent acquittal of four tax charges, after five years of legal harassment led by the State, represents a rare victory for press freedom in the Philippines. Advocates for Ressa hope it signals a new direction for recently elected President Ferdinand Marcos Jr., away from the hardline authoritarian policies of the previous regime of Rodrigo Duterte.

Image:Police at a court in Kigali, Rwanda, on September 14, 2020. Three YouTube-based Iwacu TV journalists detained since October 2018, were acquitted in Kigali and released on October 5, 2022. (Reuters/Jean Bizimana) Your support this year helped sustain CPJ’s work and mission at a time when journalists across the globe face threats while doing their

Photo: Siddique Kappan was arrested while travelling in Uttar Pradesh state in 2020 Indian journalist Siddique Kappan has been released from prison more than two years after his arrest while travelling to report on an alleged rape. He was arrested in October 2020 in Uttar Pradesh state, where a young Dalit woman had died after she was

Many warn of the tool’s potential to be a misinformation superspreader, capable of instantly producing news articles, blogs and political speeches. ChatGPT, a new artificial intelligence application by OpenAI, has captured the imagination of the internet. Some have suggested it’s the largest technological advancement in modern history. In a recent interview, Noam Chomsky called it “basically high

2023-01-19. We always tell people to be where your audience is. Right now, 755 million people are on TikTok. smartocto spoke to Dutch journalist and well-known TikToker Marieke Kuypers about why the platform holds so much potential for newsrooms. And what you can do to be relevant. by WAN-IFRA External Contributor info@wan-ifra.org | January 30, 2023 By

2023-01-30. The Quint, The Hindu, Prothom Alo, Indian Express emerged as the 2022 South Asian Digital Media Awards winners, from more than 100 entries from news publishers across South Asia. by Vincent Peyrègne vincent.peyregne@wan-ifra.org | January 30, 2023 The World Association of News Publishers (WAN-IFRA) announced the winners of the South Asian Digital Media Awards

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) and the Society for Civil Rights (GFF) have filed a second constitutional complaint in Germany against the Federal Intelligence Service Act (BND Act). Despite a revision of the law in spring 2021 both organisations hold that journalists are inadequately protected from surveillance by the BND, especially in their confidential communications with

Two journalists of the Helsingin Sanomat newspaper were found guilty of having revealed state secrets in the country ranked fifth in the World Press Freedom Index. Reporters Without Borders (RSF) deeply regrets the conviction which risks further strengthening the self-censorship effect on journalists covering national security issues. In a trial unprecedented in Finland’s post-war history,

On July 25, 2021, as Tunisia grappled with months of political, sanitary and economic crises, Tunisian president Kaïs Saied suspended the parliament and dismissed the head of government. Saied utilized Article 80 of the 2014 Tunisian Constitution, which grants the president the power to take “the measures imposed by the state of emergency” in case