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,
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Myanmar’s military junta is killing press freedom
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
Cyber security laws haunt SADC journalists
There is increasing concern over press freedom and civil liberties of media practitioners following hastened efforts to implement cyber security related laws by the 16-Southern African Development Community (SADC) member states. The press is concerned that at the rate the various countries are seeking to enact the laws, raising fears the
293 imprisoned in 2021 as journalists face targeted attacks
This past year, uncertainty blanketed our world. The COVID-19 pandemic, the rapidly advancing climate crisis, the pervasive nature of new technologies, and encroaching authoritarianism have all shown that our world is changing fast and in ways that fundamentally affect how we live. As conspiracy theories laced with facts have spread to
Press Freedom dawns in Zambia
Zambia will next year be expected to enact the Access to Information (ATI) law ending years of delay, arguably to ensure freedom of the press is attained in the Southern Africa state. In what many scholars and media practitioners feared was an effort in futility, an action delayed since 2002, Information
Afghanistan, Mexico most dangerous for journalists in 2021
India’s restive region set to end 2021 without journo-murder
If nothing sad happens in the next seven weeks, India’s restive north-eastern region will complete another year without any incident of journo-murder maintaining the trend for the last four years. The region, comprising eight States with a population of over 60 million and surrounded by many foreign nations like Bhutan,
