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Guest Blog: Black journalists are making their voices heard. Will newsrooms listen?

Issues facing Black journalists are many and deep, but the problems generally aren’t broadcast live on television. That was the situation for Omar Jimenez in Minneapolis on May 29. He was on the air when he and his CNN crew were suddenly confronted by the police they were covering. The journalists were reporting on protests […]

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Turkey: Alarming plans to further crackdown on social media

Media Freedom Rapid Response (MFRR) partners are alarmed by the Turkish President’s threats to further restrict or shut down social media. We call on Turkey to comply with its international obligations and refrain from measures that will further prevent and disrupt exercising the right to freedom of expression and information online. On 1 July, AKP […]

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Guest Blog: Press struggles against repressive government in Nepal

A democratically elected government led by the Communist Party of Nepal is doing its best to shackle the press through repressive laws. Nepali media outlets and journalists have thwarted the government’s several ill-intended moves so far, but they know the joy may not last longer. Nepal has undergone major political changes in a short span […]

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Cambodian newspaper publisher arrested over Facebook posts

The International Press Institute (IPI), a global network of editors, media executives and leading journalists for press freedom, today condemned the arrest of Cambodian newspaper publisher Ros Sokhet on June 25. Sokhet, the publisher of Khmer Nation newspaper, had published Facebook posts critical of the Prime Minister Hun Sen. The Phnom Penh Municipal Court issued a […]

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