Killings of journalists and media workers surged 50% in 2022, U.N. says
Killings of journalists and other media workers jumped 50% in 2022, with an average of one journalist killed every four days, according to new figures released…
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Analysis: Nearly 1,700 Journalists Killed Over Past 20 Years
Nearly 1,700 journalists have been killed worldwide over the past 20 years, an average of more than 80 a year, according to an analysis published…
CPJ Says Journalist Imprisonments Highest In Three Decades, Iran Worst Offender
The number of journalists imprisoned worldwide is the highest ever recorded in the 30 years since the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) has issued its prison…
A fresh Reuters Institute report detects an epidemic of news avoidance
The annual Reuters Institute Digital News Report, released Tuesday evening, with its survey of more than 93,000 readers in 46 countries, lays out a trio of…
How local journalism can upend the ‘fake news’ narrative
Local journalists are often the only journalists that most people will ever meet. teka12/Shutterstock.com Damian Radcliffe, University of Oregon “For the first time media is…
(Opinion) Donald Trump, the upside: he’s forcing journalism to do better
Shutterstock Robert E Gutsche Jr, Lancaster University The presidency of Donald Trump and has been widely – and often fairly – lambasted in the mainstream…
Why covering the environment is one of the most dangerous beats in journalism
Journalists who cover illegal operations like logging at this site in northern Sagaing division, Myanmar, can face threats and violence. AP Photo/Gemunu Amarasinghe Eric Freedman,…
Think journalism’s a tough field today? Try being a reporter in the Gilded Age
Think journalism’s a tough field today? Try being a reporter in the Gilded Age An 1899 photograph of the pressroom of the Planet, a newspaper…
New standards for journalists to fight fake news
Reporters Without Borders (RSF) and leading broadcasters launched a drive against fake news Tuesday with a new set of trust and transparency standards for journalists….
RSF: 65 journalists killed worldwide in 2017
A total of 65 journalists were killed around the world in a year seen as the least deadly for reporters in 14 years, according to…