Afghan citizen journalist Javid Noori first to be killed in 2019, says press freedom group
Afghan citizen journalist Javid Noori has been executed by the Taliban, making him the first journalist to be killed in…
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80 journalists killed in 2018 as press freedom group RSF warns of ‘unprecedented hostility’ towards media workers
A total of 80 journalists were killed this year, with 348 jailed and 60 held hostage, according to annual figures…
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‘Gilets Jaunes’: Journalist groups push for investigations into apparent police targeting of press at protests in France
Reporters without Borders and the National Union of Journalists have pushed for an investigation into reports of police targeting journalists…
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Observer’s Carole Cadwalladr warns of daily ‘war on truth’ on social media platforms as she collects press freedom prize
Carole Cadwalladr has warned that there is “a war on truth” happening every day on social media platforms, which she…
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Campaign groups urge Lords to rethink new counter-terror laws with ‘extremely worrying implications for press freedom’
Nine press freedom and human rights campaign groups have jointly urged the House of Lords to rethink new counter-terror laws…
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Press freedom groups travel to Malta to call for inquiry into killing of journalist Daphne Caruana Galizia one year on since her murder
Six international press freedom and freedom of expression groups have travelled to Malta to mark the first anniversary of the…
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Editor of Mexican weekly Playa News shot dead weeks after colleague killed
An editor-in-chief has been shot dead in a Mexican tourist resort, making him the seventh journalist to be killed in…
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‘Alarming’ global death toll for media workers reaches 51 so far this year as killings extend from war zones to democracies
The deaths of four journalists in the US yesterday drove the total number of journalists and media workers killed so…
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