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Media Security Working Group “Essential to Protect Press Freedom” – Duterte
MANILA, Philippines - The Presidential Task Force on Media Safety plays a "crucial role" in protecting the country's press freedom, President Rodrigo Duterte said on Wednesday as he greeted its members on the occasion of his fifth…
A prize for press freedom
Journalism, it has been said, is literature written in a hurry - and forgotten even faster.
Today, when the Nobel…
A courageous voice for press freedom and independence in Russia
Novaya Gazeta editor-in-chief Dmitrii Muratov. The 2021 Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to journalists Maria Ressa from the Philippines and Dmitrii Muratov from Russia. (Alexander Zemlianichenko / AP Photo)
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Nobel Peace Prize buzz for press freedom, Belarus and Greta
Published on: 08/10/2021 - 05:00Amended: 10/08/2021 - 04:58
Oslo (AFP)
Media watchdogs, Belarusian opposition leaders and climate…
National Press Club Press Freedom Team Hold Press Conference on FTC Complaint Against Facebook
WASHINGTON, October 6, 2021 / PRNewswire / - Topical Notice:
Who: Andy Parker, the father of the former WDBJ-TV reporter (Roanoke) Alison parker and lawyers from the Georgetown Law Clinic.
What: Press conference to discuss a recently…
State of press freedom in Turkey: 1 journalist arrested, 3 assaulted in September
"The free press cannot be silenced!"
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The Tigris-Euphrates Journalists Association (DFG) released its September report on violations of journalists' rights.
The report showed that…
Freedom of the press, Belarusian opposition or Greta for the Nobel Peace Prize?
Media watchdogs, Belarusian opposition leaders and climate activists such as Greta Thunberg are among those seen as candidates when the Nobel Peace Prize was announced on Friday.Highlight of the Nobel season, the prestigious peace prize…
Press freedom should be high on EU-Balkans summit agenda, RSF says
While respect for press freedom is a condition of membership of the European Union, it is not on the program of the summit between the EU Member States and the six countries of the Western Balkans - Albania, Bosnia, Kosovo, Montenegro,…
PEC deplores the shrinking space for press freedom
Geneva, October 2, 2021: Press Emblem Campaign (PEC), the global media rights organization based in Geneva, laments the lack of newspapers on newsstands across Afghanistan as most media outlets are moved to online space after the arrival…
SPLC looking for an intern for the student press freedom day
The Student Press Law Center is looking for an intern to work Student press freedom day 2022: reactivate!, which is scheduled for February 24. This important day is the culmination of weeks of events, training, new resources and…