Journalists

Again, threats against all journalists are on the rise, but threats against Black journalists have as much — or more — to do with the journalists’ ethnicity as with their profession.

Mr Robert Ssempala, the executive director of the Human Rights Network for Journalists, Uganda condemned the police attacks against journalists saying it points to heightened abuse and violence against journalists covering the Opposition candidates.

According to journalists and human rights groups, journalists engaged in self-censorship due to fear of security force retribution, prosecution under the DSA, and the possibility of being charged with politically motivated cases.

According to the National Union of Journalists (NUJ), 420 journalists are at risk of losing their jobs, in order for Reach to make 192 job cuts.

For journalists, the first 10 weeks of the war have been the deadliest recorded, the U.S.-based Committee to Protect Journalists (CP) said in a report on Thursday.

He, however, pledged the state government’s support to sports journalists during the competition, just as he assured that an authentic medal table would be made available to journalists daily.

Putin, on Thursday, appeared before 600 journalists-odd journalists, including about a dozen Western correspondents, in his annual end-of-year conference.

Six journalists in South Sudan have been detained over the circulation of footage showing President Salva Kiir appearing to wet himself at an official event, the country's journalists union says.

The best possible riposte to the dictators who want to silence journalists is to give exiled journalists back their voices and agency.

The club said that it was "not healthy for Annamalai to spread lies about the work of a journalist," and said that instead of touching upon the rights and feelings of journalists, "it is better he practices to deal the journalists in a civilised manner".

The Committee to Protect Journalists has denounced the classification of dozens of media outlets and more than 100 journalists as “foreign agents” in Russia since 2021.

The International Federation of Journalists has suspended with immediate effect the Russian Union of Journalists over its action since Russia's invasion of and its role in annexed Ukrainian territories.

The International Press Council Centre for Safety and Protection of Journalists (I-CSPJ) has enjoined journalists covering off-cycle elections in Bayelsa and other states to take precautions while on the assignment.

Two journalists in Kogi State became millionnaires on Tuesday at the presentation of prizes to the different categories of winners in the maiden edition of the GYB Essay Competition for journalists in the state.

Two journalists who formerly worked out of Russia, David Hoffman and Yevgenia Albats, condemned the recent incarceration of two journalists in Moscow at a Thursday afternoon talk at the NYU Jordan Center for the Advanced Study of Russia.

Addressing reporters from behind the glass, Kriger cast the case against him and his fellow journalists as a cautionary tale and urged journalists still in Russia to leave the country.

As police representatives on the National Committee for the Safety of Journalists, we call on you to regularly report back figures of crimes against journalists to the Committee.

At least 138 journalists have been killed in Mexico in the past 20 years, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists, and many more have gone missing or been threatened, attacked, tortured or forced to flee their homes.

CAIRO (Reuters) -An Israeli air strike on a car near Rafah in southern Gaza on Sunday killed two Palestinian journalists who were reporting, according to health officials in Gaza and the journalists’ union there.

Edith Caduaya of Davao City-based Newsline Philippines, who was among the journalists allowed by police to pass through, sought to explain to her hecklers that she was only helping escort the other journalists.