Press freedom

Will the proposed “Chartered Institute of Media Professionals of Sri Lanka” solve the issues in the media sector?

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The scholarly dialogue regarding the establishment of the proposed “Chartered Institute of Media Professionals of Sri Lanka,” aimed at introducing and maintaining professional standards for media practitioners, was held on June 16, 2026, at the auditorium of the Sri Lanka Press Institute. The panel of experts for this event comprised Professor of Communication Madhubhashini Hewage […]

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Greece facing a systemic press freedom crisis, say the Media Freedom Rapid Response and RSF

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Within the framework of their December 2021 joint mission, MFRR and RSF have concluded that the main challenges that the Greek independent media landscape has been facing, including the increase of the reporters’ insecurity, impediments to public interest journalism, and abusive lawsuits constitute systemic issues which call for public action. In light of these considerations,

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RSF accounts two years of government assault on Hong Kong’s press freedom

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Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has reconstructed an exclusive two-year timeline of government assault on Hong Kong’s press freedom following the Chinese regime’s enactment of the National Security Law in 2020. 15th April 2020 – The head of China’s liaison office in Hong Kong, Luo Huining, calls for the rapid passing of a national security law designed to eradicate the

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US: One year into the Biden administration, RSF calls for redoubled White House commitment to improving press freedom

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A full year after President Biden was sworn into office, Reporters Without Borders (RSF) expresses serious concern over the state of press freedom in the United States, and urges the White House and 117th Congress to redouble efforts to ensure the safety of journalists and the protection of press freedom at home and abroad. Journalists

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Belarus – “We cannot give up our struggle for freedom of the press”

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Seven months after what was a terrible day for TUT.BY, Belarus’s leading independent news website, one of its journalists, Aleksandra Pushkina, describes for Reporters Without Borders (RSF) how this popular media outlet was persecuted and issues an appeal for support for her imprisoned colleagues and the country’s independent media. On 18 May 2021, the Belarusian

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World’s Press Alarmed by Chilling Effect on Danish Press Freedom

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2021-12-14. WAN-IFRA and the World Editors Forum have condemned moves by Danish intelligence services to warn the country’s top media against publishing potentially classified information. The country’s two highest-ranking intelligence chiefs delivered separate warnings to JP/Politikens Hus CEO, Stig Ørskov, and Berlingske Media’s chief executive, Anders Krab-Johansen following the recent arrest of four intelligence officers

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Tunisia’s new prime minister asked to prioritise safeguards for press freedom

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Reporters Without Borders (RSF) calls on Tunisia’s newly appointed prime minister, Najla Bouden, to implement Tunisia’s undertakings as regard journalistic freedom, independence and pluralism, on the basis of Chapter 2 of Tunisia’s constitution and the country’s international obligations. Reporters Without Borders (RSF) calls on Tunisia’s newly appointed prime minister, Najla Bouden, to implement Tunisia’s undertakings

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Attacks on 53 journalists is a major setback for press freedom in Georgia, RSF says

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Far-right activists physically attacked more than 50 journalists covering the counter-demonstrations against a Pride march in Tbilisi, the Georgian capital, on 5 July, while police failed to intervene. Reporters Without Borders (RSF) condemns the culpable passivity displayed by the authorities and calls for all those responsible for these illegal acts to be punished. A total

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Open letter to Xi in four Nordic dailies about Hong Kong press freedom

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Four leading Nordic dailies have published an open letter to Chinese President Xi Jinping denouncing press freedom violations in Hong Kong. “The world can no longer stand idly by as China gradually sucks the air out of freedom of the press in Hong Kong,” says the letter published today, the centenary of the founding of

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