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2018-02-14 13:18Journalists and editors attending WAN-IFRA’s Second annual Women in News Southeast Asia Summit issued a set of recommendations for the media industry to help improve gender balance and safety for women in the industry. Recommendations focused on two overarching themes: concrete steps to increase women’s leadership and voices in the news, and safety and protection for women journalists. Read more ...
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2018-01-31 12:51Listen and subscribe to The Backstory, A Media Freedom Podcast from WAN-IFRA. Read more ...
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2017-12-20 13:42Daily Monitor (Uganda) reports that eight Red Pepper editors and senior managers arrested in November - on charges including publication of information prejudicial to security, libel and offensive communication - have been granted bail pending further judicial proceedings. Read more ...
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2017-11-02 03:01On the occasion of the International Day to End Impunity for violence against journalists (2 November 2017), we, as media and publishers, journalists and media professionals and other members of the media community feel it is time to raise our voice and start speaking up about the violence against our profession. Read more ...
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2017-11-01 13:01"... a unique occasion to reflect upon the tremendous consequences that impunity for attacks against journalists has all around the world." Read more ...
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2017-10-31 10:43ARTICLE 19, International Media Support (IMS) and the World Association of Newspapers and News (WAN-IFRA) have written to the Supreme Court of Mexico to underline the duty of the State to adopt a clear and precise legal framework on public advertising and independence of the media. Read more ...
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2017-10-30 16:58The chaos that followed the September announcement by Uganda’s government of sweeping changes to the constitution – including a new age-limit bill – led to the gagging of the country’s media. In a move of defiance, the Uganda Media Freedom Committee (MFC) wrote a strong statement in protest, which has been shared across a vast number of platforms. Read more ...
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2017-10-30 16:23In the age of digital, the media has had to adapt to the constant changes in how news is published and consumed. Misinformation and disinformation – as many call “fake news” – has become the latest challenge for global media. How do journalists filter through the junk and how do readers know where to find the truth? Read more ...
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2017-10-17 00:00The World Association of Newspapers and News Publishers (WAN-IFRA) and the World Editors Forum (WEF) have condemned a car bomb attack in Malta on Monday, 16 October in which investigative journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia lost her life. Read more ...
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