News headlines for “Mainstream Media”, page 23
Journalists in Hiding to IPS: Silencing Women Journalists, is Silencing the Voice of Afghan Women
- Inter Press Service
KARACHI, Pakistan, Sep 03 (IPS) - “If I fall into the hands of the Taliban, not only me but my family will be killed,” said AB, 23*, who worked as a broadcast journalist for the past seven years and is a well-known face on the television screen.
Afghan Female Journalist: I may not be Alive by the time US can Evacuate Me
- Inter Press Service
NEW YORK, Aug 19 (IPS) - Steven Butler describes it as “mass panic.” As the Taliban seized control of Afghanistan, CPJ’s Asia program coordinator has been fielding “hundreds and hundreds” of daily pleas from journalists asking for help to flee the country.
Proud of Being Able to Speak the Truth: Journalist Nidhi Razdan on her Cyber Attack
- Inter Press Service
NEW DELHI, India, Aug 12 (IPS) - Sania Farooqui is a journalist and filmmaker based out of New Delhi.Earlier in January, Indian journalist Nidhi Razdan found out she was a victim of one of the most sophisticated and elaborate cyber attacks. Razdan wrote in a piece that it was all an attempt to access her bank account details, personal data, emails, medical records, passport and access to all her devices, including computer and phone.
Daphne Caruana Galizia’s Family Hope ‘Lessons are Learnt’ to Protect Investigative Journalists
- Inter Press Service
BRATISLAVA, Aug 03 (IPS) - BRATISLAVA, August 2 (IPS) - The family of slain journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia has called for “lessons to be learnt” after an independent inquiry found that the Maltese state bore responsibility for her death.
Botswana Police use Israeli Cellebrite Tech to Search Another Journalists Phone
- Inter Press Service
NEW YORK, Jul 21 (IPS) - Tsaone Basimanebotlhe was not expecting security agents to appear at her home in a village outside Gaborone, Botswana’s capital, in July 2019, she told CPJ in a recent interview. But they didn’t come to arrest or charge her, she recalled – they came for her devices, hunting for the source for an article published by her employer, Mmegi newspaper.
Kuciak Case Retrial An Opportunity to Break Global Cycle of Impunity in Journalist Killings
- Inter Press Service
BRATISLAVA, Jun 21 (IPS) - A ruling last week ordering a retrial in the murders of a Slovak journalist and his fiancée has led to a “unique” opportunity to break a global cycle of impunity in journalist killings, press freedom groups have said.
Prison was Horrible but I Will Still do my Work as a Journalist - Jeffrey Moyo Upon Prison Release
- Inter Press Service
BULAWAYO, Zimbabwe, Jun 16 (IPS) - International correspondent Jeffrey Moyo, who was a released from detention today after being arrested for breaching Zimbabwe’s Immigration Act by helping two foreign journalists work in the country, says press freedom is undermined when journalists cannot work undeterred.
Nigerias Twitter Ban Is Part of a Larger Attack on Civil Society
- Inter Press Service
LAGOS, Nigeria, Jun 09 (IPS) - Four years ago, Omoregie* and his friends were arrested without cause and taken into custody. When they got to the station, Omoregie watched as the police began to beat his friends. Afraid, he began to discreetly tweet about the attacks as they took place.
Calls for Zimbabwean Journalist Jeffrey Moyo to be Given a Fair Trail after Bail Denied
- Inter Press Service
BULAWAYO, Zimbabwe, Jun 01 (IPS) - As international correspondent Jeffrey Moyo was denied bail for allegedly breaching a section of the Zimbabwe Immigration Act by helping two foreign journalists work in the country without proper media accreditation, local organisations have called for his release and for him to be accorded a fair trial.
Q&A: If China had a Free Press COVID-19 Pandemic 'May not Have been so Severe'
- Inter Press Service
BRATISLAVA, May 26 (IPS) - China is one of the worst places in the world for media freedom, according to the global media watchdog Reporters Without Borders (RSF) which ranked the country 177 out of 180 in its latest World Press Freedom Index. In the report, the group warned that Beijing is taking “internet censorship, surveillance and propaganda to unprecedented level,” and had “taken advantage of the Covid-19 pandemic to enhance its control over online information even more”. China is also the world’s biggest jailers of journalists with more than 120 journalists and what the group calls “defenders of press freedom” currently detained.
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