RSF’s 2022 World Press Freedom Index: a new era of polarisation
Reporters Without Borders this week published its annual World Press Freedom Index. The UK is ranked #24.
Reporters Without Borders this week published its annual World Press Freedom Index. The UK is ranked #24.
Even before Russian tanks rolled into Ukraine, the battle for hearts and minds had begun.
More than 100 newspaper editors, MPs, journalists, celebrities and campaigners signed a letter calling on John Edwards to fix FOI.
The Society of Editors has welcomed the decision by a court to back journalist Chris Mullin in his fight against a police production order to disclose information that would reveal his sources.
Journalists should be provided with access to documents from employment tribunal cases even in the aftermath of a judgment, it has been ruled, after a successful legal challenge by the Guardian.
The News Media Association has welcomed the commitments this week from the Culture Secretary to strengthen the exemption for news publishers’ content in the Online Safety Bill.
The Society of Editors has welcomed an announcement by the Ministry of Justice of the government’s commitment to clamp down on so-called Strategic Lawsuits Against Public Participation (SLAPPs).
The hearing to challenge the use of anti-terrorism legislation to force Chris Mullin to reveal confidential sources relating to his investigations into the IRA Birmingham pub bombings must not be held in private, the Society of Editors has warned.
Yesterday’s ruling by the UK Supreme Court that a person under criminal investigation has ‘a reasonable expectation’ of privacy prior to charge will have ‘far-reaching’ implications.
WAN-IFRA and the World Editors Forum have expressed outrage at the mounting death toll of journalists in Mexico following the February 10th murder in Oaxaca state of Heber López Vázquez.
Hong Kong's Citizen News has announced it will close down, citing safety concerns for its reporters.
Hong Kong online pro-democracy outlet Stand News has been raided by hundreds of Hong Kong national security police, who arrested six people for “conspiracy to publish seditious publications”.
The Golden Pen of Freedom, the annual press freedom award of the World Association of News Publishers, has been awarded to Jimmy Lai and the staff of the Apple Daily newsroom in Hong Kong.
WAN-IFRA Women in News has announced the three recipients of its 2021 Editorial Leadership Award.
To coincide with Journalism Matters week, News Media Association chief executive Owen Meredith calls for an end to the abuse and intimidation of journalists as threats ramp up across the world.
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