Journalism
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Penny Wong’s comments dampen hopes for Assange’s release
London: Foreign Minister Penny Wong says the rule of law must be applied to Julian Assange, dampening hopes that her government…
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Access to Journalism Is a Human Right
But information belongs to us. Maria Bustillos The Nation In 1974, when the Irish statesman and humanitarian Seán MacBride was…
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Exiled non-Jewish Turkish woman studies antisemitism in Turkey. Interview with Uzay Bulut
A highly successful journalist and political analyst in her 30s, Bulut was in Israel studying toward her second MA at…
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US officials concern about world press freedoms while assaulting them
I will never get used to living in a world where our rulers will openly imprison a journalist for telling…
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No such thing as an objective journalist: Notes from the edge of the narrative matrix
I feel like we haven’t been talking enough about the fact that US government agencies were just caught intimately collaborating with…
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Protect Freedom of Expression in Mali
Intimidation of Journalists, Critics Continues. Aoife Croucher HRW In Mali, media professionals are facing harassment and intimidation over their real…
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Journalist in Sweden spied on by Turkish intelligence, private photos leaked to gov’t media
The authoritarian regime of Islamist President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan ran surveillance on a critical journalist who lives in Sweden, published…
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Bravery, insight and simmering fury: Australian female correspondents on speaking truth to power
It never has. Sue Joseph The Conversation I am always far more interested in elegantly rendered content. Whether it’s written…
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I Wish My Friend Could Have Read Her Own Obituary
She died early last Wednesday, but if she’d held on a few more hours, I like to imagine that she…
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Belling the Cats
In his seminal 1999 book What are Journalists For? Nicholas Karides NYU professor Jay Rosen pointed to a plaque at the…
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On World Press Freedom Day, will Australia’s major parties pledge to fix our whistleblowing law?
At its simplest, press freedom is about truth: the ability to report and publish the truth, without fear or favour.…
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UK’s freedom of information laws are being undermined, warn journalists
More than 100 journalists, politicians and campaigners have signed an open letter warning that the UK’s freedom of information (FoI)…
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Australian journalist Cheng Lei to be tried in Beijing on state secrets charges next week
Cheng Lei, a former high-profile anchor for the Chinese government’s English-language broadcaster CGTN, is facing accusations of providing state secrets…
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Rwanda: Wave of Free Speech Prosecutions
(Nairobi) – Judicial authorities in Rwanda are prosecuting opposition members, journalists, and commentators on the basis of their speech and opinions, Human…
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Ecuador: Investigate Police Abuse During Women’s Day Marches
(New York) – Ecuadorean police responded to peaceful demonstrations commemorating International Women’s Day on March 8, 2022, with excessive force, including striking…
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Media propaganda a scourge on democracy
They’re all symptoms of a particular class of political journalism that is closer to propaganda than news. Victoria Fielding IA…
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