The most perilous place for a journalist in the U.S. last year was at a protest, according to a new report released Tuesday by the Reporters Committee for Freedom of the Press that surveys the 2017 data from the U.S. Press Freedom Tracker.
Hamid Ismailov is an Uzbek journalist and writer who was forced to flee Uzbekistan in 1992 due to what the state dubbed “unacceptable democratic tendencies”.
Austria’s new populist government wants to shift the media landscape of the country
Press freedom groups have urged the parliamentary committee considering a proposed new UK data protection law to drop amendments that would force news publishers to sign up to a state-backed regulator or face potentially crippling costs.
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_single_image image="98546" img_size="full" alignment="center"][vc_column_text]UK-based freedom of expression organisation Index on Censorship recorded its 4,000th case of a media freedom violation in 42 countries around...
Index on Censorship has launched a campaign to raise £15,000 to help us document growing threats to media freedom.
Recent developments in Turkey, once seen as a role model of the Muslim world, have shown that concepts such as the rule of law and right to free speech are no longer welcome by the Erdogan government
The men from the Sinaloa cartel had made a mistake, and now they were looking to use it to their advantage.
Abdullah Bozkurt, the Ankara bureau chief for Today’s Zaman was forced into exile after the failed July 2016 coup in Turkey.
Kseniya Kirillova thought her stay in the U.S. would be only temporary.
Media freedom is under threat worldwide. Journalists are threatened, jailed and even killed simply for doing their job.
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