Press Freedom
Amal Clooney Protects Journalists. We Asked Her About Asia's Shrinking Press Freedom.
The human rights lawyer, who is defending Nobel Prize-winning journalist Maria Ressa, says it's time to do away with colonial-era laws.
Myanmar Military Sentences American Journalist to 11 Years in Prison
Danny Fenster was arrested at the airport trying to leave Myanmar in May. He has not been heard from since.
The Taliban Told the World Women Can Work. But Women Journalists Are Told to Stay Home.
"He’s a man, you’re a woman. Women are not allowed to work anymore," one Taliban fighter allegedly told a journalist.
As Taliban Forces Close In, Women Journalists Fear For Their Lives
“The Taliban will kill us. It’s our responsibility to share women’s voices and reporting from our country. But it’s become really hard to even write.”
A Journalist Went to Cover an Islamophobic Rally. He Went Viral for Refusing to Join In.
“As the crowd got angrier with each passing second, it did cross my mind that they could physically harm, or even kill, me.”
We Spoke to the Men Who Went to Jail For Saying Cow Poop and Piss Can’t Cure COVID
“It broke me that my kids had to watch me getting assaulted by the cops.”
Hong Kong’s Largest Pro-Democracy Newspaper Is Dead
Apple Daily, a 26-year-old newspaper critical of Beijing, will cease print and digital operations by the end of Thursday.
Inside Apple Daily, a Pro-Democracy Hong Kong Newspaper Under Assault
Journalists published their last articles, shredded notes, and bid farewell to the whirling printing presses in what appears to be Apple Daily’s final days.
‘Delete the Video or We’ll Block YouTube’: Inside Putin’s War on the Free Press
Dawn raids, Kafkaesque house arrests, ensuring articles are labelled with the words ‘FOREIGN AGENT’ in giant font – Russia is pulling out all the stops to clamp down on anything resembling independent media.
Police Are Preventing Journalists From Reporting on Anti-Logging Protests
Now, Canadian journalists are going to court on Wednesday, and one told VICE World News that police interference “is by far the most significant press freedom issue in Canada.”
China Is Turning a Hong Kong Broadcaster Into a Government Mouthpiece
The authorities are on a mission to “politically sterilize” a respected news outlet.
Bangladeshi Journalist Could Face Death Penalty For Her COVID Investigation
Twelve journalists and bloggers covering the pandemic have been charged by police since it began.