The Human Cost Of Dismantling Belarus's Independent Media

2 May 2024, 8:02 pm

Following massive pro-democracy protests in Belarus in 2020, the government has cracked down – targeting independent media, among others. Some of the many journalists who have fled their profession, ...... Read More »

Nicaraguan journalist running media outlet in exile due to crackdown on independent press

2 May 2024, 6:00 pm

There is a process of absolute total criminalisation of freedom of the press, of freedom of expression’ in Nicaragua, says Carlos Chamorro ...... Read More »

Democracy is minimum precondition for free, fair journalism, President says

2 May 2024, 5:38 pm

In his message, the President has suggested that the media fraternity should work hard to establish the truth by disseminating facts through independent journalism and has cautioned that rumours could ...... Read More »

Does Independent Journalism Have A Future?

2 May 2024, 5:21 pm

Imagine waking up tomorrow and every journalist had been arrested or quit their jobs. What would the world look like without good-quality journalism ...... Read More »

Zimbabwe: World Press Freedom Day - Govt Urged to Uphold Free, Independent Journalism in Face of El Nino-Induced Drought

2 May 2024, 1:00 pm

The Media Alliance of Zimbabwe (MAZ) and the Zimbabwe Union of Journalists (ZUJ) have issued a clarion call to the government to ensure a free and independent media so ... the theme "A Press for the ...... Read More »

Journalism is not a crime, even when it offends the government

2 May 2024, 2:00 am

WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange has been imprisoned in London for five years, while Texas journalist Priscilla Villarreal was only briefly detained at the Webb County Jail. But both were arrested for ...... Read More »

Journalism professors urge 'independent review' of New York Times 7 October sexual violence report

30 April 2024, 11:05 am

Letter is the latest blow to an article that was widely cited and shared by pro-Israel voices to justify the military onslaught on Gaza ...... Read More »

Journalism professors call on New York Times to review Oct. 7 report

29 April 2024, 10:01 am

Screams Without Words,” a New York Times report into sexual violence in the Hamas attack on Israel, has drawn criticism from journalism professors and other.... Read More »

Dozens of journalism professors call on New York Times to hold independent review of Oct. 7 report

29 April 2024, 7:34 am

New York Times to 'immediately commission a group of journalism experts to conduct a thorough and full independent review of the reporting' - Anadolu Ajansı ...... Read More »

Will the Senate finally move to protect small and independent journalists?

29 April 2024, 12:31 am

The Senate has a golden opportunity to protect independent journalism and promote media diversity. This is the time for Republicans to join reform-minded Democrats to finally pass the PRESS Act into ...... Read More »