BEIRUT, | TASS | At least 158 journalists have been killed in the Gaza Strip since October 7, 2023, the enclave’s authorities said. They wrote in their Telegram channel that five media workers had been killed in military operations in recent days. Gaza’s health ministry said earlier that in total, …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The Buganda Road Chief Magistrates Court has remanded two Journalists to Luzira Prison on charges of publishing information without a valid broadcasting License. Dickson Ashley Mubiru the Managing Director Grace Publications, Alirabaki Ssengoba a News Writer at Grape Vine Media were arraigned before the Court …
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Rising authoritarianism, conflict, and threats to press freedom are driving journalists to flee their countries COMMENT | ANTONIO ZAPPULLA | “Foreign agent,” “undesirable,” “extremist.” For thousands of independent journalists trying to live and work in Russia, these words can be life-changing. In April, Ilya Barabanov, the BBC’s Russian correspondent, was …
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Namutumba, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | The urbanization state minister Persis Namuganza, who also serves as the Bukono constituency Member of Parliament, has called for a police investigation into the individuals who received Emyoga funds meant for journalists in Namutumba district. Namuganza made this request during the belated Press Freedom …
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Without journalists there can be no democracy, but empty election rituals in electoral autocracies COMMENT | JODIE GINSBERG | In just the first week of this year, at least 18 journalists were assaulted or harassed while covering alleged election irregularities and violence in Bangladesh. Then, in early February, journalists in Pakistan …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Today Friday, 3 May is World Press Freedom Day, which this year is dedicated to the importance of journalism amid a series of mounting environmental crises. Environmental journalists are often the chroniclers of the triple planetary crisis of climate change, nature and biodiversity loss, and pollution and waste. …
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New book compares what journalists in Kenya and Rwanda have to say about doing their jobs BOOK REVIEW | KAREN MCINTYRE | A majority of the world’s population has experienced a decline in press freedom in recent years, according to a UN report. In east Africa, the results are mixed and …
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Kampala, Uganda | THE INDEPENDENT | Uganda Law Society (ULS) has expressed its intentions to establish a pro bono fund for journalists to help promote media rights countrywide. Pro bono refers to services that are rendered by a professional for free. This was revealed by the President of the legal …
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It’s an awkward position for Israel which repeatedly argues it is a democracy and respects media freedom COMMENT | PETER GRESTE | Israel has emerged as one of the world’s leading jailers of journalists, according to a newly released census compiled by the New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists. Each year …
Read More »GAZA | Xinhua | Two journalists were killed and another journalist was injured on Sunday in an Israeli airstrike targeting their vehicle in the southern Gaza Strip, according to Hamas media office. In a statement, the office identified the two journalists as Hamza Al-Dahdouh and Mustafa Thuraya, whose car was …
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