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Can your newsroom meet the challenge of the climate crisis?

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 […]

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14 journalists detained in Yemen, 13 of them held hostage by rebel groups

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

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“Historic trial” in London of man accused of plotting to kill exiled Pakistani blogger

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

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Two Togolese journalists freed but subjected to absurd judicial controls

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

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Since the Taliban takeover, 40% of Afghan media have closed, 80% of women journalists have lost their jobs

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

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More reporters arrested in renewed crackdown in Ethiopia

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

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Top women editors: ‘Create safe spaces to retain women in news, equip them for leadership roles’

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

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New Report: Reader revenue takeaways from DME21

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

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Six months after Raman Pratasevich’s arrest, “extremism” charge increasingly used against Belarusian media

Six months after Raman Pratasevich, the editor of an allegedly “extremist” Belarusian exile news outlet, was arrested when his Ryanair flight was diverted to Minsk, he is still awaiting trial in an unknown location. Reporters Without Borders (RSF) reiterates its call for his immediate release and condemns the increasingly frequent use of “extremism” charges against

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Syrian journalist arrested in Jordan, threatened with expulsion

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) calls for the immediate release of Ibrahim Awwad, a Syrian freelance journalist based in the Jordanian capital, Amman, who was arrested last week and is now threatened with being sent back to Syria. According to Fared Al-Mahlool, a friend and fellow journalist, Jordanian security officials raided  Awwad’s home in Amman on 17

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