Kenyan police arrest journalists protesting against a controversial media bill in December 2008.
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Important factors, such as conflict, are central to understanding a country’s degree of press freedom, development and democratisation.
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New statistics show a spike in the amount of journalists jailed in the country. To protect its democracy, Israel needs to be transparent about why members of the media are arrested.
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New Zealand was mostly stable in key international rankings and domestic socio-economic measures. But there are signs of slippage in some areas and not enough progress in others.
Haaretz: supportive of the war effort, critical of the government running it.
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The Netanyahu government is pressuring Israel’s most prominent left-leaning newspaper over its coverage of the war in Gaza.
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Hundreds of Australian journalists signed an open letter to news organisations calling for better coverage of the war. It calls their impartiality into question.
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Today, the government released a review into Australia’s patchwork of a secrecy law system. The proposed changes are a step in the right direction, but there’s so much more work to do.
The law requires that all sim cards in South Africa be registered.
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The justice ministry had more than enough time to make the law constitutional. Failure to do so is an indictment on its leadership in the process.
Control: Hungary’s prime minister Viktor Orbán and his Fidesz party dominate the political agenda through control of the media.
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Authoritarian populists tolerate opposition media – as long as they only exist at the margins.
Shot while reporting from Ukraine: Swiss photojournalist Guillaume Briquet.
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Journalists and media workers are being deliberately targeted by Russian forces in Ukraine.
Journalists take cover during March 2023 protests in Kenya.
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There is a growing public wariness about the performance of the media, which are increasingly accused of being partisan.
Gareth Jones was a reporter from Barry in south Wales.
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Gareth Jones reported on Moscow’s genocide against the Ukrainian people in the 1930s. His story holds lessons and an example for those reporting on the latest conflict.
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Eight journalists covering a protest on the M25 motorway were recently detained by police.
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Australia’s press freedom problems have been acknowledged by both the Morrison and Albanese governments. However, we’re yet to see any actual law reform to support public interest journalism.
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The second part of the Leveson Inquiry was cancelled in 2018, but there is still unfinished business.
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A cautionary tale for the UK press .
Mikhail Gorbachev in 2007 with the editor of independent Russian newspaper Novaya Gazeta, holding a book about the murdered reporter Anna Politkovskaya.
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Glasnost was hailed as one of the Soviet leader’s great achievements. But it was a fragile freedom and soon overturned by Vladimir Putin.
Kenya’s journalists have had a tumultuous relationship with Uhuru Kenyatta’s government.
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The relationship between the state and media soured just months into the Kenyatta regime.
Must do better: the treatment of media workers in Hong Kong has drawn criticism from the Media Freedom Coalition.
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A group of 50 governments is meeting in Estonia to discuss ways to protect journalists. But are their voices being heard?
A protester calls for the release of journalist, who covered the initial outbreak of COVID in Wuhan in 2019 and 2020 and was sentenced to four years in prison.
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Journalists and media workers around the world are increasingly being targeted, especially in countries where authoritarian regimes hold power.
Iqbal Survé, executive chairman of the Independent newspaper group.
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Using state resources to sue media for spreading fake news is not the answer, and sets a bad precedent.