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Reporters confronted in street and accused of ‘smearing China’ amid increasing sensitivity to any negative portrayals of ChinaForeign journalists reporting on the aftermath of China’s flooding disaster have faced hostile confrontations in the street an…
Dainik Bhaskar accuses government of pursuing it on trumped-up charges in response to its reportingCoronavirus – latest updatesSee all our coronavirus coverageTax raids have been carried out on the offices of one of India’s most popular newspapers, aft…
The photojournalist Danish Siddiqui was shot dead last week while documenting the Taliban offensive in Afghanistan. His award-winning work for Reuters spanned some of the world’s most era-defining crises. He said: ‘I shoot for the common man who wants …
Reuters photographer Danish Siddiqui was covering Afghan commando unit near Pakistan borderDanish Siddiqui, a Pulitzer prize-winning photojournalist who worked for Reuters news agency, has been killed in southern Afghanistan.Siddiqui was in the border …
Over the past year, one of New Zealand’s news giants ditched Facebook, pivoted to ‘trust’ and gave shares to employees. Can it survive? The question of trust has dogged journalists for decades. “A kind of confidence man,” Janet Malcolm labels the journ…
Nathan Maung says security forces punched, slapped and beat him, and kept him blindfolded for over a weekMyanmar’s security forces punched, slapped and beat a US journalist and kept him blindfolded for more than a week of interrogation, he said after b…
Newspaper’s closure shows how pro-democracy movement and press freedom are being crushedOn Wednesday morning, the Apple Daily reporter Angel Kwan was at a government press conference for the Hong Kong census when her phone started buzzing with notifica…
Million copies printed of last issue as journalists at newspaper that was forced to close mourn ‘historical moment’Across Hong Kong on Thursday morning the queues stretched for hundreds of metres, wrapping around corner after corner. Starting before da…
‘Tragic’ closure of Sabeen Mahmud’s community venue T2F in Karachi comes as PM Imran Khan accused of fostering censorship and intoleranceDanial Shah turned to Sabeen Mahmud, for help with his first photo exhibition when all other organisations refused …
Key moments in the recent history of territory’s largest pro-democracy newspaperJune 2019 The first protests begin in Hong Kong, with millions of people taking to the street in protest against a proposed extradition bill, which critics fear will allow …
Analysis: A palpable chill has run through the Hong Kong media, amid warnings about ‘fake news’ The fate of Apple Daily, one of Hong Kong’s bestselling tabloids, should not come as a surprise. On the day Jimmy Lai, its founder, was sentenced to 14 mont…
Tabloid founded by Jimmy Lai and targeted by police raid last week will print final edition on Thursday‘The blackest day’: Apple Daily’s demise comes as no surpriseHong Kong’s largest pro-democracy newspaper, Apple Daily, will shut down online at midni…
Arrest of journalist who publishes under the name Li Ping is the first of a writer at the pro-democracy newspaperThe editorial writer for Hong Kong’s Apple Daily newspaper has been arrested, the latest move in a media crackdown under the national secu…
Carrie Lam denies arrest of senior editorial figures at pro-democracy paper and seizure of its assets was an attack on press freedomHong Kong’s leader, Carrie Lam, has refused to clarify how journalists can avoid breaking the vaguely defined national s…
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