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Message on the World Press Freedom Day by the UN Secretary-General, António Guterres. On World Press Freedom Day, we shine a spotlight on the essential work of journalists and other media workers who seek transparency and accountability from those in power, often at great personal risk. Throughout the Covid-19 pandemic, many media workers have been […]

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) condemns a decision by Cameroon’s National Communication Council (CNC) to suspend the head of one of the country’s most outspoken and popular TV channels, one of its star presenters, and one of its leading current affairs programmes for a month. The suspensions are arbitrary and unjustified, and constitute a serious press

2022-04-04. This weekend, Sarajevo daily Oslobođenje released a special edition to commemorate the siege of Sarajevo and the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina, an armed conflict that lasted between 1992 and 1995. It highlights the role and value of independent journalism during conflict and when rebuilding a nation. As war rages on in Ukraine, Oslobođenje’s

The Sri Lanka Press Institute’s fact-checking unit, FactSeeker, conducted a series of on-site workshops on “Basic Media Literacy and Fact-checking”  for youth groups across the island. Workshops were held in Matara, Ratnapura, Badulla, Batticaloa, Ampara,Vavuniya and Anuradhapura, Kandy, Colombo and Kurunegala districts catering to both Sinhala and Tamil audiences on 8th, 9th, 17th, 19th February

The Sri Lanka Press Insitute, a professional collective body representing the media community, advocates of media freedom and the News industry, condemns any attacks or threats that prevents journalists from executing their duties. The SLPI is concerned with the implications affecting media freedom and the safety and security of those engaged in the media profession.

2022-02-17. The Canadian newspaper made available the sources of an investigative climate story, giving readers access to more than 180 files as part of a campaign to show what underpins its journalism. Given that many news consumers lack understanding of journalistic processes, and are oftentimes unaware of the amount of work that goes into bringing

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) condemns a raid on the headquarters of a local newspaper in Bangladesh’s capital, Dhaka, by around 100 ruling party supporters, who threatened to burn it down and shoot the editor. The competent authorities cannot allow such an unacceptable act of intimidation to go unpunished, RSF says. “Over 100 people on motorcycles

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) condemns the travesty of justice in Russian-annexed Crimea in which a journalist originally said to have spied for Ukraine was sentenced to six years in prison on an explosives charge yesterday at the end of a sham trial behind closed doors in the municipal courthouse in Simferopol, Crimea’s second largest city.

Twitter is to expand its Safety Mode feature, which lets users temporarily block accounts that send harmful or abusive tweets. The system will flag accounts using hateful remarks, or those bombarding people with uninvited comments, and block them for seven days. Half of the platform’s users in the UK, US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and