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A reporter for the main daily newspaper in eastern India’s Odisha state has been killed by an improvised explosive device that was probably planted by Maoist rebels active in the region. Reporters Without Borders (RSF) calls for those responsible to be identified and brought to trial in order to avoid similar tragedies in the future. […]

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) welcomes the jury decision finding a British citizen guilty of conspiring to kill exiled Pakistani blogger Ahmad Waqass Goraya. The jury’s guilty verdict could serve as a landmark judgement in establishing accountability for transnational threats against journalists, which are far too often perpetuated with impunity. Following a two-week trial at the

2022-01-20. 2022 will be the year to tackle the complexities of covering climate change says the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism (RISJ) in a new report. While the obstacles are significant, editors are focused on the challenge. There are a few nagging issues editors raise when talking about their climate change coverage and

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) is extremely concerned about the many Yemeni journalists currently detained in different parts of Yemen and calls for their immediate release. At least 14 Yemeni journalists are held, 13 of them by rebel groups. They include Kamel Almamari, the Al-Kawthar TV and Radio Tehran correspondent in the capital, Sanaa, who was abducted exactly seven months ago today, on

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) will closely follow the trial of a man accused of conspiring to kill a Pakistani blogger based in the Netherlands, which is due to start in the London suburb of Kingston-upon-Thames on 12 January, and calls on the British justice system to shed all possible light on all of the conspiracy’s

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) calls on Togo’s authorities to rescind the extremely strict and unjustified judicial controls placed on two newspaper editors as a condition for their release on 31 December after three weeks in prison in the capital, Lomé, on charges of defaming and insulting two government ministers. L’Alternative editor Ferdinand Ayité and Fraternité editor Joël Egah have had to surrender

A survey by Reporters Without Borders (RSF) and the Afghan Independent Journalists Association (AIJA) shows a radical change in the Afghan media landscape since the Taliban took power. A total of 231 media outlets have had to close and more than 6,400 journalists have lost their jobs since 15 August. Women journalists have been hit

Arrests of more journalists in recent weeks for their coverage of the 13-month-old civil war have confirmed the disastrous setback for press freedom seen in Ethiopia in 2021, says Reporters Without Borders (RSF), calling on the authorities to free detained journalists and end the harassment and restrictions to which they are being subjected. Amir Aman

2021-12-14. Women in News Editorial Leadership Award laureates from three different regions discuss the challenges of attracting and retaining newsroom talent, and share advice on creating an environment in which women journalists can thrive. By Simone Flueckiger and Neha Gupta In a conversation with Toyosi Ogunseye, the BBC’s Head of West Africa, three laureates of the

2021-12-01. As audiences-first strategies start to build momentum around the world, a natural knock-on effect of that is its relationship with a publisher’s reader revenue strategy. The topic was prevalent in most of the case studies presented at WAN-IFRA’s Digital Media Europe 2021 virtual conference in September, and WAN-IFRA just published a report based on