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New lab will help 21 news organisations from Latin America boost their digital advertising revenue

2021-09-09. Twenty-one news organisations across Brazil and Spanish-speaking Latin America have been selected to participate in the 2021 GNI Latin America Advertising Revenue Lab. Led by the Google News Initiative and organised in collaboration with digital consultancy Media.Monks and WAN-IFRA, the programme will provide a diverse cohort of media organisations with personalised, hands-on support to […]

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How the Financial Times aimed to keep spirits high in the face of COVID-19

Maintaining productivity during lockdowns and remote working wasn’t an issue for the FT. Instead, the challenge revolved around figuring out ways to support staff and boost motivation. Here’s how they did it. During WAN-IFRA’s Virtual Newsroom Summit conference, Felicity Thomas, Head of Talent Development at the FT, shared the changes the company implemented to maintain

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Romania: In an open letter, RSF and ActiveWatch denounce judicial pressures on investigative journalists following a complaint from a Bucharest district mayor

Based on a criminal complaint filed without any evidence, Romanian prosecutors have started to interrogate journalists who reported on irregularities related to public procurement. Reporters Without Borders (RSF) and its Romanian partner organisation warn against a dangerous precedent with a possible chilling effect on journalists and demand an internal investigation on the prosecutors’ treatment of

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Proposed Iranian law would ban US, British journalists and media

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) condemns the latest censorship attempt in Iran, in the form of a proposed law currently before the Iranian parliament that would ban US and British journalists from entering Iran and would ban the Iranian media from reporting anything that the US and British media publish. RSF urges Iran’s parliamentarians to reject

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Algeria pressures reporters by delaying renewal of accreditation

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) condemns the Algerian government’s use of delays in renewing press accreditation to put pressure on reporters employed by foreign media, many of whom have been waiting for months for their 2021 accreditation. The accreditation renewal process should be more transparent, RSF says. Many journalists working for international media still don’t know

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French reporter says he has been kidnapped in northeastern Mali

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) calls on the Malian and French authorities to do everything possible to obtain the release of Olivier Dubois, a French journalist who says he has been kidnapped by an Islamist armed group in Mali. In a 21-second video that was released today, Olivier Dubois says he was kidnapped by the “Support

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Japanese reporter held in Myanmar is charged with “false information”

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) calls on Japan to take advantage of its privileged relationship with Myanmar’s military government to press for the immediate release of Yuki Kitazumi, a Yangon-based Japanese freelance reporter who has been held for the past two and a half weeks and has just been formally charged. Arrested on 18 April, Yuki

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Mass international solidarity campaign launched in support of Maria Ressa

On World Press Freedom Day 2021, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) and the #HoldTheLine coalition have launched an innovative campaign of solidarity with journalist Maria Ressa, who faces a possible lifetime in prison in the Philippines. A new website (www.holdthelineformariaressa.com) features hundreds of videos from prominent supporters around the world – with a call for public

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RSF urges Madagascar to let journalists cover Covid-19 freely

Reporters Without Borders (RSF) calls on the authorities in Madagascar not to suppress media coverage of a second wave of coronavirus cases after they suspended nine radio and TV programmes last week and made several broadcasters give a written undertaking not to cause trouble in order to get their programmes back on the air. The

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Viable, diverse, stable and safe – is this really too much for media to ask?

Viability, diversity, stability and safety are essential ingredients of any healthy information eco-system. How many media worldwide can say yes to all four? How far are individual professionals, news organisations, and the industry as a whole from achieving these? And at this time of global anxiety, economic turmoil, and future uncertainty, is it crazy to

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