• Journalism • Press Freedom

    Shattered by a perfect storm: How Trump’s cuts are crippling journalism beyond the United States

    Gretel Kahn, Marina Adami, Eduardo Suárez

    Reuters Institute

    Before Trump’s inauguration, the US government supported independent journalism in more than 30 countries. Most of this funding was channelled through USAID. According to a USAID factsheet recently mentioned by Reporters Without Borders (RSF) and now taken offline, the agency funded training and support for 6,200 journalists and assisted 707 outlets.

    Published On: 03/07/2025

  • Democracy • Press Freedom

    White House wrests control of presidential press pool from correspondents

    BRIAN SNYDER

    REUTERS

    The pool has traditionally been overseen by the WHCA to ensure that access isn’t limited to those covering the sitting administration favorably.

    Published On: 02/25/2025

  • Press Freedom • Threat Management

    One month of Trump: Press freedom under siege

    Clayton Weimers

    Reporters Without Borders

    The newly-elected president, his administration, and his political allies have conducted a rapid series of attacks on press freedom that amount to a monumental assault on freedom of information.

    Published On: 02/19/2025

  • Journalism • Press Freedom

    The MAGA Assault on the Media Is Picking Up Steam

    CHRIS LEHMANN

    The Nation

    Trump’s courts-based intimidation campaign against the press descends from handiwork of one of his most prominent Silicon Valley backers, venture capitalist and neo-reactionary ghoul Peter Thiel.

    Published On: 02/03/2025

  • Journalism • Press Freedom

    Capitulation is Contagious

    Adrienne LaFrance

    The Atlantic

    The brave few who stood up to the magnates of the Gilded Age came to mind this month, when Ann Telnaes, a Washington Post cartoonist, resigned over the paper’s refusal to publish a cartoon in which she skewered today’s titans of industry—­Jeff Bezos, the owner of the Post, among them.

    Published On: 01/23/2025

  • Press Freedom • Threat Management

    News Outlets Take Unusual Steps to Prepare for Onslaught From Trump

    DAVID ENRICH and KATIE ROBERTSON

    New York Times

    With President-elect Donald J. Trump returning to the White House, media outlets large and small are taking steps to prepare for what they fear could be a legal and political onslaught against them from the new administration and Mr. Trump’s allies inside and outside the government.

    Published On: 01/13/2025

  • Exile • Journalism • Press Freedom

    How an exile newsroom reports on Afghan women

    Ananya Bhasin

    Committee to Protect Journalists

    After escaping the country undetected with nearly two dozen newsroom colleagues and family members, they made their way to a refugee camp in Albania. Then, they got to work rebuilding the newsroom they had left behind.

    Published On: 12/12/2024

  • Global • Human Rights • Journalism • Press Freedom • Violence

    Israel-Gaza war: list of journalists killed in the line of duty in Palestine, Israel and Lebanon

    Reporters Without Borders

    Reporters Without Boarders

    Journalists killed in connection with their work in Gaza, Lebanon and Israel.

    Published On: 11/22/2023

  • Press Freedom

    Russia outlaws top independent news site in latest crackdown

    JIM HEINTZ AND DASHA LITVINOVA

    AP News

    Meduza, an independent news website that has been critical of Russia’s military action in Ukraine was declared “undesirable” by the government Thursday, effectively outlawing its operation within the country as part of the Kremlin’s latest crackdown on dissent.

    Published On: 01/26/2023

  • Journalism • Press Freedom

    RSF creates “mirror” of leading Russian exile news site blocked by Kremlin

    Reporters Without Borders

    Reporters Without Borders

    Reporters Without Borders (RSF) has used the mirror site technology of its Collateral Freedom operation to unblock access to Meduza, the most popular Russian independent news website.

    Published On: 11/03/2022

  • Cyber Security • Digital Rights • Press Freedom • Resistance • Technology

    Lessons from Investigative Journalists in Exile

    Rowan Philp

    Global Investigative Journalism Network

    “A decade ago, there were international programs for exiled media, ...there has been nothing since, and there is no association of exiled media.”

    Published On: 05/09/2022

  • Journalism • Press Freedom • Safety

    Equally Safe

    Jennifer Robinson, Dr Keina Yoshida

    Article 19

    What might a feminist approach to the protection of journalists look like? What concrete benefits might it bring? And could it provide solutions to the well-documented – and highly gendered – abuse that women journalists face every day?

    Published On: 05/03/2022

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