Asia

Challenges of Bangladesh media in transition

- Afsan Chowdhury -

Bangladesh media continues to live in semi-denial as it goes through transition and the so-called professional media faces increasing pressure from many forces particularly social media. This shift of focus from the professional to the individual/social space is historically significant. For the first time, the media has become a shared

Talibans stifle press freedom

- Ahmad Hakimi & Sifatullah Zahidi -

About 6,400 journalists lose jobs, 40% media outlets closed Thousands of journalists have lost their jobs in Afghanistan since the takeover of the government by the Taliban regime last August, leaving many media outlets ceasing operations due to increasing security and financial challenges. While Taliban officials claim women can continue to work,

Myanmar’s military junta is killing press freedom

- Shawn W. Crispin, CPJ -

One year since a democracy-suspending coup, press freedom is dying in Myanmar. A military campaign of intimidation, censorship, arrests, and detentions of journalists has more recently graduated to outright killing, an escalation of repression that aims ultimately to stop independent media reporting on the junta’s crimes and abuses. In January, military

Social media under siege … as global blackout looms

- Jeff Kapembwa -

Despite sustained advocacy by campaigners for leaders to respect people and media rights to flourish as espoused under democratic tenets, the media remains under threat globally. With the media grappling to remain relevant to society- being a mirror of society, the use of social media by practitioners and other end users