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
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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Staying with the Trouble
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They’re Coming for the Truth-Tellers: Bondi’s Plan to Jail Journalists
Most alarming part of all is what Bondi reportedly wants to do next. According to sources close to the Justice Department, she has argued that leakers — or even reporters — who provide information that she doesn’t like could be prosecuted for treason, a crime that carries the death penalty.