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.
CATEGORY: Media Freedom
Journalism in Exile: Uzbekistan continues its bar on Hamid Ismailov
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: Government’s altering of media landscape raises concern
Austria’s new populist government wants to shift the media landscape of the country
Data Protection Bill must protect press freedom, free speech groups say
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.
Death threats should not be the norm
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Don’t let media freedom die – we need it more than ever
Index on Censorship has launched a campaign to raise £15,000 to help us document growing threats to media freedom.
Turkey’s journalists have sacrificed their freedom in the pursuit of truth
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
After cartel kidnapping, Mexican journalist fled to U.S.
The men from the Sinaloa cartel had made a mistake, and now they were looking to use it to their advantage.
Turkey reporter stayed one step ahead of crackdown
Abdullah Bozkurt, the Ankara bureau chief for Today’s Zaman was forced into exile after the failed July 2016 coup in Turkey.
After colleague’s death, Russian reporter fears return to homeland
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.
Index on Censorship documents threats to media freedom in Europe via a unique monitoring project and campaigns against laws that stifle journalists’ work. We also publish an award-winning magazine featuring work by and about censored journalists. Learn more.