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Documentary lands Ethiopian journalists in hot water amid terrorism accusations

10 Apr 2025

Christophe Deloire was the head of media freedom group Reporters Without Borders (RSF). Source: RSF.

Media Freedom

Meet the world's bravest reporters at CPJ's 34th annual awards, hosted by John Oliver

11 Nov 2024

Media Freedom

Reuters safety adviser killed and 3 journalists injured in Ukraine attack

28 Aug 2024

Source: © CPJ The Basmanny district court in Moscow has convicted Russian-American journalist and writer Masha Gessen of disseminating "fake" information about the Russian military

Media Freedom

Russian-American journalist Masha Gessen convicted of disseminating "fake" information

19 Jul 2024

Media Freedom

Burkina Faso suspends more foreign media over killings coverage

Alessandra Prentice 29 Apr 2024

Marianne Thamm performs her show. Source: Supplied.

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Daily Maverick's Marianne Thamm brings her performance journalism show to Joburg

26 Apr 2024

Media Freedom

Taliban arrests radio journalists for engaging with female callers - CPJ

26 Apr 2024

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Global news leaders sign open letter in support of journalists in Gaza

6 Mar 2024

Media Freedom

Indian journalist pays 'price for doing his work' in violent attack

26 Feb 2024

Many Cape Town journalists attended the vigil. Source: GroundUp

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South African media community mourns journalists killed in Gaza

GroundUp Staff 29 Jan 2024

Al Jazeera bureau chief Wael al-Dahdouh and his son Hamza. Source: X.

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Al Jazeera's bureau chief son among two journalists killed in Gaza

8 Jan 2024

Source: © Wan-ifra Gianluca Costantini’s drawings of the journalists and media workers killed in the Hamas-Israeli conflict since 7 October

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Artist honours journalists and media workers killed in Hamas-Israeli conflict

28 Nov 2023

Media Freedom

Death toll adds up as journalists die in Israel and Palestine conflict

Karabo Ledwaba 16 Oct 2023

Media

Wan-Ifra and Reporters Without Borders form committee to develop AI Media Charter

28 Jul 2023

Media

Journalist killings up by 50% in 2022

Karabo Ledwaba 18 Jan 2023

Media Freedom

Journalist imprisonments highest recorded in years

15 Dec 2022

World's press demands protection of journalists in Russia-Ukraine conflict

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World's press demands protection of journalists in Russia-Ukraine conflict

25 Feb 2022

Restricting digital media is a gamble for African leaders

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Restricting digital media is a gamble for African leaders

Jeffrey Conroy-Krutz 3 May 2021

Why working as a journalist in Uganda is particularly tough

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Why working as a journalist in Uganda is particularly tough

Karen McIntyre and Meghan Sobel Cohen 9 Mar 2021

Volodymyr Zelensky, President of Ukraine, at the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, on 22 January 2020. EPA-EFE/GIAN EHRENZELLER.

Media Freedom

Wan-Ifra concerned over proposed media bill threatening freedom of expression - Ukraine

14 Apr 2020

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Sanef addresses misinformation and journalists' safety while reporting on Covid-19

17 Mar 2020

Police officers detain Sahara Reporters journalist Victor Ogungbenro during a protest in Lagos, Nigeria, on August 5, 2019. Staff at the online newspaper report sustained harassment targeting them and their website. Credit: CPJ/AP/Sunday Alamba.

Media Freedom

US-Nigeria website censored

12 Dec 2019

Fighting breaks out as security personnel attempt to re-arrest Nigerian activist and journalist Omoyele Sowore at the Federal High Court in Abuja, Nigeria, on December 6, 2019. Sowore and other activist-journalists have been jailed in Nigeria and Ethiopia amid a crackdown on free expression. Credit: CPJ/Reuters/Afolabi Sotunde.

Media Freedom

Nigeria and Ethiopia jail activist-journalists amid crackdown on free expression

Muthoki Mumo and Jonathan Rozen 11 Dec 2019

Journalist Nazli Ilicak is embraced after her release from prison in Istanbul in November 2019, after a court ordered her free on time served at a retrial. Two of her colleagues remain in prison on terrorism related charges, among the 47 journalists jailed in Turkey. Credit: CPJ/Reuters/Huseyin Aldemir.

Media Freedom

The world's worst jailers of journalists

Elana Beiser 11 Dec 2019

Police officers are seen near Lagos, Nigeria, on September 3, 2019. Journalists in Kogi and Bayelsa states reported being harassed and threatened during recent elections. Credit: CPJ/Reuters/Temilade Adelaja.

Media Freedom

Nigerian journalists attacked and threatened

10 Dec 2019

IPFA winners, New York.

Media Freedom

International Press Freedom Awards announced

27 Nov 2019

People take part in a parade to mark the 24th self-declared independence day for the breakaway region of Somaliland in the capital Hargeisa on May 18, 2015. On November 18, 2019, Somaliland police shut down a TV station and arrested its editor. Credit: CPJ/Reuters/Feisal Omar.

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Somaliland police shut down Horn Cable TV, arrest its editor

21 Nov 2019

Demonstrators are seen outside the Department of State Services headquarters in Abuja, Nigeria, on November 12, 2019. Police fired on and attacked journalists covering that demonstration. Credit: CPJ/AFP/Kola Sulaimon.

Media Freedom

Nigerian security forces fire on journalists, protesters

18 Nov 2019

CPJ deepens database of attacks on the press

Media Freedom

CPJ deepens database of attacks on the press

Elana Beiser 12 Nov 2019

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Media Freedom

Media: How to protect your phone from spyware

11 Nov 2019

Police officers are seen in Freetown, Sierra Leone, on March 26, 2018. Presidential bodyguards recently attacked a group of journalists in Freetown. Credit: CPJ/Reuters/Olivia Acland.

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Three journalists beaten by Sierra Leone presidential bodyguards

8 Nov 2019

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Media

Unlocking the web's untold censorship stories

Madeline Earp 31 Oct 2019

Hamza Idris (left), an editor with the Daily Trust newspaper, sits with colleague Hussaini Garba Mohammed in their office in the Nigerian capital, Abuja, in February 2019. The office was raided in January by the military, who seized 24 computers. Credit: CPJ/Jonathan Rozen.

Media Freedom

Nigerian military targeted journalists' phones, computers with "forensic search" for sources

Jonathan Rozen 30 Oct 2019

Four Iwacu journalists, from left, Térence Mpozenzi, Agnès Ndirubusa, Christine Kamikazi, Egide Harerimana, and their driver, Adolphe Masabarikiza, are detained in Burundi. Credit: CPJ/Iwacu Media.

Media Freedom

Burundi police arrest Iwacu journalists covering unrest

28 Oct 2019

Maxence Melo Mubyazi.

Media Freedom

CPJ announces 2019 International Press Freedom Awards

23 Oct 2019

Algerian demonstrators chant and wave their country's national flag as they take part in an anti-government protest in the capital Algiers on October 15, 2019. Authorities have detained at least three more journalists in recent days. Credit: CPJ/AFP.

Media Freedom

Algeria detains three journalists who covered protests

18 Oct 2019

A police van is seen in Alexandria, Egypt, on September 27, 2019. Security forces recently arrested and allegedly tortured journalist Esraa Abdel Fattah. Credit: CPJ/Reuters/Amr Abdallah Dalsh.

Media Freedom

Egyptian journalist Esraa Abdel Fattah arrested on false news charges

16 Oct 2019

People look at front pages at a newspaper stand in Port Harcourt, after Nigeria's presidential election results were announced on February 27, 2019. Nigerian police beat two Inspiration FM journalists after covering a protest in Uyo, in Akwa-Ibom State, on September 24, 2019. Credit: CPJ/AFP/Yasuyoshi Chiba.

Media Freedom

Nigerian police beat two Inspiration FM journalists at protest

11 Oct 2019

Egypt arrests 3 more journalists amid crackdown

Media Freedom

Egypt arrests 3 more journalists amid crackdown

2 Oct 2019

Police officers are seen at El Harrach prison in Algiers, Algeria, on June 13, 2019. Freelance journalist Sofiane Merakchi was recently sent to the prison for pre-trial detention. Credit: CPJ/Reuters/Ramzi Boudina.

Media Freedom

Algerian authorities arrest freelance journalist

30 Sep 2019

A police officer is seen in N'Djamena, Chad, on July 11, 2015. A N'Djamena court recently charged two Chadian journalists with criminal defamation and sentenced one to jail. Credit: CPJ/Reuters/Moumine Ngarmbassa.

Media Freedom

Journalists fined, one jailed over criminal defamation complaint in Chad

26 Sep 2019

Police officers are seen in Cairo, Egypt, on September 21, 2019. Police recently arrested several journalists covering protests in Cairo and other cities, and authorities blocked news websites and Facebook Messenger. Credit: CPJ/AFP/Mohamed el-Shahed.

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Egypt authorities arrest 3 journalists, block websites, amid protests

25 Sep 2019

Eritrean President Isaias Afewerki and Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed during a ceremony marking the reopening of the Eritrean Embassy in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, on July 16, 2018. A recent thawing of relations between the two countries did not lead to improved conditions for the media in Eritrea. Credit: CPJ/Reuters/Tiksa Negeri.

Media Freedom

10 most censored countries

13 Sep 2019

A police officer is seen in Hargeisa, Somaliland, on May 16, 2016. Police in Hargeisa recently arrested Horyaal 24 TV owner Mohamed Osman Mireh. Credit: CPJ/AFP/Mohamed Abdiwahab.

Media Freedom

Somaliland police raid Horyaal 24 TV offices

11 Sep 2019

Police officers are seen in Lagos, Nigeria, on August 5, 2019. Lagos police recently arrested publisher Agba Jalingo, who has been charged by federal authorities with treason. Credit: CPJ/AP/Sunday Alamba.

Media Freedom

Nigerian publisher charged with treason

9 Sep 2019

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Media Freedom

Spotlight on human rights in Mozambique

5 Sep 2019

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Media Freedom

Nigerian publisher Agba Jalingo detained without charge

4 Sep 2019

The statue of founding president Mwalimu Julius Nyerere in Tanzania’s political capital Dodoma. Credit: WikiCommons.

Media Freedom

Why Tanzania's attacks on free speech break with Nyerere's legacy

Nick Westcott 4 Sep 2019

Protesters from two of Benin's unions take part in a demonstration after the parliament approved a law restricting to 10 days public sector employees’ right to strike, on September 13, 2018, in Cotonou. Journalist Ignace Sossou convicted of false news in Benin on August 12, 2019. Crdit: CPJ/AFP/Yanick Folly.

Media Freedom

Journalist Ignace Sossou convicted of false news in Benin

27 Aug 2019

A newspaper stand is seen in Mwanza, Tanzania, on September 19, 2015. Tanzania is currently considering legal amendments that could negatively affect press freedom. Credit: CPJ/AFP/Daniel Hayduk.

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Onslaught against press freedoms in Tanzania

26 Aug 2019