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2021-05-19. Amid the global search for sustainable business models for news publishers, Singapore Press Holdings plans to transfer its media businesses, including the Straits Times and Business Times, to a not-for-profit entity. It’s an initiative from the group’s corporate and editorial leaders in response to the relentless shareholder pressure. We asked SPH’s editor in chief, […]

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) condemns a Mauritanian reporter’s arrest for 48 hours over nothing more than a Facebook post questioning government spending. The authorities must safeguard press freedom in Mauritania, RSF said. Abdellahi Mohamed Ould Atigha, the editor of the independent newspaper Al Hoora, was suddenly arrested – without any warning or prior summons –

The Belarusian authorities are harassing the country’s most popular news website, TUT.BY. Online access has been blocked, its Minsk headquarters have been searched and criminal proceedings have been initiated against the people who run it. Reporters Without Borders (RSF) condemns the trumped-up charges used to silence this media outlet and calls for a firm UN

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) welcomes Guinean journalist Amadou Diouldé Diallo’s release today after nearly three months in prison on a charge of insulting President Alpha Condé although Guinea has decriminalised press offences. The Guinean authorities must stop detaining journalists arbitrarily, RSF said. A reporter for state-owned radio and TV broadcaster RTG, Diallo was finally freed

Follow the news on press freedom in Iran : 20.05.2021 – Two journalists convicted, monthly suspended Reporters Without Borders (RSF) condemns the unrelenting persecution of press freedom in Iran, of which the latest victims include Rozbeh Priri, a citizen-journalist based in the northwestern province of Eastern Azerbaijan. Priri learned on 12 May that a court

Journalist Paul Chouta has been sentenced to 23 months’ imprisonment and ordered to pay several million CFA francs in fines and damages after being held for two years awaiting a trial verdict in Cameroon. Reporters Without Borders (RSF) deplores this excessive and unjustified penalty which is a serious attack on press freedom. The judge’s verdict

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) condemns Israel’s week-old ban on foreign reporters entering the Gaza Strip from Israeli territory, which is obstructing media coverage of the conflict. The border must be reopened at once, RSF says. The Israeli defence ministry’s Crossing Points Authority imposed the ban on 12 May after the Israeli military began launching airstrikes

Rozina Islam has been accused of stealing documents after she unearthed corruption in health ministry during the pandemic. The arrest of a female Bangladeshi investigative reporter who wrote scathing stories on the country’s response to the coronavirus pandemic has triggered protests by hundreds of reporters. Rozina Islam, an investigative journalist for Prothom Alo newspaper, the

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) condemns the unacceptable acts of torture and inhuman mistreatment to which two Belarusian journalists say they were subjected during the past week in a prison in the eastern city of Mahilyow, and calls on the UN to include the persecution of journalists in the international investigation it launched in March. Alyaksandr

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) calls on the Ethiopian authorities to reinstate the press accreditation of Simon Marks, an Addis Ababa-based reporter for the New York Times and Bloomberg News, and to allow journalists to work freely. After several semi-official warnings in preceding months, Simon Marks was notified on his return from reporting in the war-torn