カテゴリー: Media
As a child in Afghanistan, she pretended to be a boy in order to get an education, before starting her own women’s news agency. Now living in Britain, her fight continuesJust over a month ago, Zahra Joya left her house in Kabul to walk to her office, a…
The career of the Observer’s former China correspondent who died last week, was marked by a willingness to review his convictionsJonathan Mirsky, the Observer’s former China correspondent who has died aged 88, was acutely aware of the mounting danger f…
Head of International Federation of Journalists says ‘future is black’ for 1,300 journalists still in countryJournalism in Afghanistan is in danger of disappearing, according to the head of the International Federation of Journalists, who said that rep…
A report into how many times the ABC mentioned News Corp or Murdoch had some embarrassing flaws. Plus: campaign to release Myanmar fixerThe Australian newspaper often gleefully reports the work of the rightwing thinktank the Institute of Public Affairs…
As images circulate of the brutal flogging of two reporters, a senior Afghan journalist declares ‘press freedom has ended’A spate of violent attacks on Afghan journalists by the Taliban is prompting growing alarm over the freedom of the country’s media…
Journalist and historian of China who went from admiring the regime to being one of its sternest criticsJonathan Mirsky, who has died aged 88, was a prominent American historian of China who switched to journalism and won the international reporter of …
Apple Daily publisher Next Digital hopes move will allow payments to be made to creditors and former staffNext Digital, a Hong Kong media group known for its criticism of Beijing, has filed for liquidation, with its board of directors resigning to help…
While individual countries try to do what they can for those caught up in the mayhem, international pressure is lackingWhen Beheshta Arghand questioned a Taliban spokesman live on Afghan television two weeks ago, the very fact that he was prepared to a…
The Afghan television anchor Beheshta Arghand has been evacuated from Afghanistan amid risks for her safety and freedom after interviewing a Taliban official live on air after the fall of Kabul in late August. Arghand, who is now in Qatar, said sh…
Fourteen Afghans including presenters, reporters and producers are now in hiding from the Taliban A group of senior Afghan journalists who spent time working for the BBC have accused the corporation and the UK government of ignoring their pleas for hel…
Danny Fenster’s family believe he has caught Covid in jail, where he has been since he was detained trying to board a flight out of Myanmar in MayThe family of US journalist Danny Fenster have appealed for his release as they marked the 100th day of hi…
Images of the injured fill the front pages as story of the deadly attack in Afghanistan claimed by Islamic State dominates the newsKabul airport attack: latest newsThe atrocity in Afghanistan dominates the front pages of newspapers in the UK and all ov…
Today the media are looking for scapegoats, but 20 years ago they helped facilitate the disastrous interventionEveryone is to blame for the catastrophe in Afghanistan, except the people who started it. Yes, Joe Biden screwed up by rushing out so chaoti…